The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Body Rock (1984)
Body Rock is yet another breakdancing movie but unlike the charming Breakin’ which surprised me with its energy and its generosity, this movie is constructed...
The Wild Life (1984)
I was not the world’s biggest fan of Fast Times at Ridgemont High but having seen its spiritual sequel, The Wild Life, I am fairly...
Until September (1984)
I begin with the movie’s poster, which is a colossal miscalculation. That’s fitting because this whole movie is a colossal miscalculation. It features the film’s...
Places in the Heart (1984)
Places in the Heart is a one of those farmer’s wife vs. the bank movies in which a woman of resolve and determination battles not...
All of Me (1984)
I haven’t done a thorough study of this, but I think that All of Me represents the first Steve Martin comedy in which the plot...
Amadeus (1984)
I didn’t really want to see a movie about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I had an idea of what it might look like; a dusty old...
A Soldier’s Story (1984)
Perhaps only director Norman Jewison could answer this question, but I am wondering if A Soldier’s Story isn’t supposed to be an extension of In...
