The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Mask (1985)
Mask is a movie that forced me to let my guard down. I was ready to be cynical. Here is a movie about a kid...
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a prequel to 1984’s Missing in Action. That means that the events in this movie take place before...
The Aviator (1985)
I suspect that The Aviator was made by people who have seen a lot of old World War II movies. You know, those old movies...
Lust in the Dust (1985)
Lust in the Dust needed a lot of work. Roles needed to be shifted, the narrative needed to be re-organized and the whole idea needed...
Blood Simple. (1985)
Blood Simple is a brilliant example of pure filmmaking. For every inch of its running time it takes the shape of a film noir nightmare, the kind...
Fear City (1984)
Abel Ferrara’s Fear City is a movie with a lot of style and a serious lack of ambition. The pieces are here that could make...
Turk 182! (1985)
Turk 182! is one of those man-against-the-establishment movies that could only possibly work if the man and those within the establishment were totally brain dead. ...
