The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Word has it that neither Kathleen Turner nor Michael Douglas particularly wanted to make a sequel to Romancing the Stone. I get that, I really...
Runaway Train (1985)
Oh boy! I wanted to like Runaway Train so much. I wanted to be engaged. I wanted to be thrilled. I wanted the characters to...
Santa Claus (1985)
There is no crime in making a movie about the origins of Santa Claus, but in this case, I asked a question that I’m afraid...
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky IV is everything that I feared that this series would become. Cold, lifeless, predictable, bland and lazy. It’s also heartbreaking when you remember the...
Fever Pitch (1985)
After seeing Richard Brooks’ Fever Pitch I got the very strange feeling that I had missed something. Maybe, I thought, my normally perceptive brain had...
One Magic Christmas (1985)
Geez! One Miserable Christmas.I’m a fan of Christmas movies. I have my small collection of holiday movie treasures that pad my season of tinsel and...
Shoah (1985)
When I heard that Shoah was a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary about The Holocaust, I mentally prepared myself. How do you prepare for a movie like this? ...
