The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The World According to Garp (1982)
The World According to Garp is based on the only John Irving book that I ever read. I read it in college and all I...
TRON (1982)
I have the exact same praise and the exact same problems with TRON that I had with Blade Runner. Both are marvels of technology and...
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
When Don Bluth and several other animators resigned from the Disney studios in 1979, feeling that the studio had mismanaged Walt’s legacy and were now...
Blade Runner (1982)
I saw a screening of Blade Runner the other night at a small dinner theater here in my town surrounded by several of my friends...
MegaForce (1982)
Megaforce is a dumb movie full of bad action scenes, a nothing story and characters pulled off the shelf. If it had half a brain,...
Author! Author! (1982)
It is tough to write a movie about a writer. What are the tenants? Writer’s block, deadlines, weak material, slipping potential. The most dramatic scenes...
Grease 2 (1982)
All through Grease 2, I kept thinking back to different movie. Not the earlier movie from 1978, but rather George Lucas’ American Graffiti. Both take...
