The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Victory (1981)
Victory is a movie with a capital ‘M’. It is hard to hate it but it’s even harder to take one minute of it seriously,...
Zorro the Gay Blade (1981)
There are a lot of things working against Zorro the Gay Blade, but I think where it fails first and foremost is that nobody ever really...
Arthur (1981)
Arthur is a strange and often very funny screwball comedy, the kind that Howard Hawks might have made in the 1930s. These movies are always...
Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is a relatively small movie with very lofty goals. It flies low, gets the job done in under 90 minutes and...
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
One of the things that I love about The Muppets is the way in which, no matter what they are doing, the plot gets out...
Dragonslayer (1981)
Dragonslayer arrives at a very particular moment, after John Boorman’s Excalibur and just after the Ray Harryhausen extravaganza Clash of the Titans. Given those two...
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
I suppose that after Moonraker, James Bond had nowhere to go but up. Once he hit rock bottom by going to outer space, I kinda...
