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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Raging Bull (1980)
It is a little strange, to me, that the most unforgettable image of Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull is one of the quietest. Jake La Motta stands defiantly in...
The Mirror Crack’d (1980)
I am not very well-educated on Agatha Christie mainly because I find her mystery stories kind of superfluous. When they’re over, we’ve been witness to...
Borderline (1980)
I think that Death Wish may have been the best and worst thing to happen to Charles Bronson. The best because it introduced him to...
The Jazz Singer (1980)
I could make a long list arguing the reasons why a remake of Al Jolsen’s 1927 musical The Jazz Singer was a bad idea, but...
Nine to Five (1980)
I keep seeing the same reviews pop up for Nine to Five, calling it a dimwitted, derivative piece of fluff that more or less blows...
Tell Me a Riddle (1981)
I resent the treatment given to the elderly in American films. So fearful of alienating the youth market that Hollywood runs scared from the process...
Popeye (1980)
I didn’t expect this. Really, I never expected a live-action version of Popeye to be disarming. I suppose I went into the movie expecting kind...
