The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Natural (1984)
What exactly is this movie about? Is it baseball movie or a religious parable? I don’t get it. I am not a person who lionizes...
Hardbodies (1984)
You can see the machinations behind the scenes. A group of middle-aged movie executives wanted to make a movie featuring girls in bikinis down at...
Firestarter (1984)
Firestarter is an ugly, nasty little thriller about a little girl who has the power to start fires with her mind - pyrokinesis one might say. ...
Breakin’ (1984)
Okay, so here’s a 1930s musical plot grafted onto an 80s movie about break dancing. That’s actually not a bad thing. How much plot do...
Alphabet City (1984)
Alphabet City is one of those tiresome overwrought melodramas about Life in the Streets that you just know was made by people who have seen...
The Bounty (1984)
Being that this is the third cinematic version of the story of the 1797 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, I guess I thought I knew...
Sixteen Candles (1984)
If there is a universe unto raunchy teen comedies then Sixteen Candles floats near the top and Porky’s lays at the bottom. The former has...
