The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Project X (1987)
I have a suspicious streak for these things. Over the years I like to think that I've built up a sixth sense about when something...
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
Watching the Police Academy movies, for me, is like having a five-year-old tell me a joke. It's not very funny, it goes on forever, it has no...
Blind Date (1987)
Oh! I wanted so badly for this Blind Date to work. The pedigree is here. It stars, and is made by, some very talented and...
Dolls (1987)
Scary dolls are really only scary when they are inactive. There is something about their stillness, their frozen expression, the light cast on their plastic...
Street Smart (1987)
It is amazing how these things work out. I just wrote my review of Hollywood Shuffle and noted that most of Hollywood's popular African-American actors are...
Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle is a very funny comedy send-up of the treatment and compartmentalization of black actors who have been routinely forced into roles as slaves,...
Burglar (1987)
Burglar is an action comedy of such absurd stupidity that during its last half hour I found myself involuntarily muttering: “Aw, come on.” This happens...
