The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Batman (1989)
There are so many things to like about Tim Burton’s “Batman,” and yet just as much that annoys and frustrated me that I find myself...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones, much like James Bond, is a character that we’ve come to know so well that he seems like an old friend. Yet, while...
Parents (1989)
I think I know the general purpose of the horror comedy Parents but I am not sure I get the point. Bob Balaban, directing his...
Physical Evidence (1989)
I hate movies that are so clearly riding the success of an earlier more successful movie – I think in the film critics’ terminology it’s...
Hope and Glory (1987)
I have a deep and abiding appreciation for movies that treat kids like kids. Far too often Hollywood wants them to be junior-league adults with...
School Daze (1988)
I have not seen Spike Lee’s previous work She’s Gotta Have It, so walking into School Daze, I only had the faintest idea of what...
She’s Having a Baby (1988)
I just knocked the teen comedy For Keeps for giving the serious issue of teen pregnancy a cutsy-poo framework, and now here comes John Hughes...
