The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Superman II (1981)
Much will be written about Superman II dealing with its visual effects, it’s villains and it’s equality to 1978’s Superman. But I fear that not...
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark is the template on how to make a great action film. Seen by itself, it is probably the...
Clash of the Titans (1981)
It is perhaps a credit to the great animator Ray Harryhausen that in the age of Star Wars, his brand of special effects can still...
History of the World, Part I (1981)
I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out what went wrong with this movie. Here is an epic brought to us by one...
Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams (1981)
The overriding problem with Cheech and Chong’s cinematic adventures is that as their films have gotten more and more popular the comic inspiration seems to...
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
One of the things that I appreciated about the recent film Windwalker was that it took its time to really get established within the world...
Bustin’ Loose (1981)
Richard Pryor is such an open book, such a vast comic talent that I think filmmakers believe that no matter what they put him in,...
