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 Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
The Prisoner of Zenda is just not funny. What more can I say? I didn’t laugh. Not once. Didn’t even crack a smile. I don’t...
Over the Edge (1979)
I don’t know what kind of movie the producers of Over the Edge were hoping to sell here but based on the movie’s poster, they’re...
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
There are not a lot of positives that come from Beyond the Poseidon Adventure save for, I must admit, a pretty cool-sounding title. Although, in...
Last Embrace (1979)
The understandable motivation that makes a director want to create a Hitchcockian thriller is not only reasonable and in many ways sort of inevitable. Hitch...
Phantasm (1979)
The horror movies of the late 1970s seem to have this hazy, dreamy, hangover feel to them. Everyone looks like garbage; the music is interminably...
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Boulevard Nights was released in March of 1979, just six weeks after Walter Hill's The Warriors and upon release drew outrage from anti-fascist groups who claimed that...
Every Which Way But Loose (1979)
My head was spinning when the final credits rolled on Every Which Way But Loose and, I can confidently tell you that it was not...
