The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Evil Dead 2; Dead by Dawn is what I wanted from Stuart Gordon's Dolls. From that movie, I wanted a grand guignol of blood and guts...
Lily Tomlin (1987)
Just about the only thing that I knew about the documentary Lily Tomlin going in is that Tomlin and her partner Jane Wagner unsuccessfully sued...
Lethal Weapon (1987)
It’s funny, I just wrote a review of the Burt Reynolds action movie Heat in which the script kept pushing the film’s human touches out...
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
This will sound a little strange, but I actually had the same problem with Some Kind of Wonderful that I had with 84 Charing Cross...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
I was an admirer of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street a few years ago for reasons that are all but lost on the...
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
84 Charing Cross Road is a prime illustration of the difficulty of making a movie about people who like to read books. It’s like writing,...
Over the Top (1987)
I will confess that I had no idea that professional arm wrestling actually existed. Not only does it exist, but apparently there’s an entire league...
