The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Weird Science (1985)
Weird Science has been criticized for building up a premise that it can’t quite muster the courage to carry out. The premise offers a sort-of...
Fright Night (1985)
Fright Night starts out as a commentary on the state of modern horror and ends by being and assault on it. The problem with modern...
The Heavenly Kid (1985)
Funny how these things turn out. Just three days after watching the wonderful Back to the Future, a movie made with heart and cleverness, comes...
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Something is missing here. On the first go-around, it is difficult to figure out what exactly is missing from The Black Cauldron but there is...
The Man With One Red Shoe (1985)
I saw The Man With One Red Shoe on a Tuesday night with a friend of mine, seated in a packed out that was offering...
Explorers (1985)
Explorers is a movie that stinks of having been much too inspired by the success of E.T. but trashed by the notion that kids can’t...
Red Sonja (1985)
How do you make a movie about a character like Red Sonja without making it look ridiculous? Well, don’t ask the people who made this...
