The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
One of the things that I appreciated about the recent film Windwalker was that it took its time to really get established within the world...
Bustin’ Loose (1981)
Richard Pryor is such an open book, such a vast comic talent that I think filmmakers believe that no matter what they put him in,...
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
There are a lot of things that haunt Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, but I don’t think there’s anything that gobs at it more than its...
Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
I more or less thought I knew the kind of movie that Take This Job and Shove It was promising; a slack jawed, halfwit good old boy...
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Given the difficult history of the Middle East through Western eyes it is difficult to approach a film like Lion of the Desert and not...
Caveman (1981)
I laughed about four times during Caveman and given that the movie averages about a joke every minute and a half in a 91-minute running...
Nighthawks (1981)
Nighthawks finds itself seated between two very interesting periods of Hollywood commercial filmmaking, between the last lingering days of the down-to-Earth urban thrillers started by...
