The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist is one of those big-budget roller-coaster special effects movies that would seem to occupy the same space as any number of cut-rate horror movies...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan might just be one of the greatest do-overs in movie history. When I reviewed Star Trek: The Motion...
Hanky Panky (1982)
For the rest of my life, I will remain a fan of Gene Wilder. I mean, the man is a precious gift to comedy –...
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky III is about as subtle as a Sherman Tank, and that’s a giant letdown given what preceded it. Whatever complexity, humanity and warmth existed...
Annie (1982)
Annie is an all-out, full-blooded, hugely produced extravaganza with all of the familiar pieces in place. There’s Annie. There’s Daddy Warbucks. There’s the mean old...
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid was a movie that left me wanting the filmmakers to go back and try again. What they have here is...
Circle of Deceit (1982)
Watching Volker Schlondorff’s Circle of Deceit was, for me, a humbling experience. Here I am, a well-fed American living in the quiet suburb experiencing, night...
