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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Dracula (1979)
With the production code safely gone, the 1970s became fertile ground for all manner of previously taboo content. Nudity, violence, foul-language, scandalous situations – they...
Lost and Found (1979)
I was not a fan of Melvin Frank’s A Touch of Class, which made a lot of money and was lauded by critics back in...
Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
Peering through the murky, silly and woefully underwritten screenplay for Just You and Me, Kid, it is possible to actually sit and enjoy the movie...
The Wanderer (1979)
Watching The Wanderers, I kept thinking back to American Graffiti, not in accusing the film of being a rip-off but in the need to catch...
Moonraker (1979)
If there is one trademark of the Roger Moore Bond film, it might be the foolhardy way in which the producers are willing to take...
Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline (1979)
I never read a Sidney Sheldon book. When I was a kid, they were the books that my mom’s friends were forever reading, books with...
Meatballs (1979)
I didn’t laugh much at Meatballs but I can confidently report that it wasn’t for lack of trying on the part of the filmmakers. This...
