The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
The first thing that everyone knows about The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu is that it was the farewell feature of Peter Seller’s brilliant...
Xanadu (1980)
Xanadu is kind of interesting. Not good, but interesting. It is a production with a lot of great music – most of it from angelic...
Why Would I Lie? (1980)
I genuinely hate this movie.I hate its premise.I hate its characters.I hate its presumptions.I hate it illogical nonsense.I hate movies like this.Why Would I Lie?...
The Hunter (1980)
I sort of wish that Steve McQueen had ended things with Papillion. The actor spent much of the 1970s in blockbusters that weren’t worth his...
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Raise the Titanic is a terrific film . . . at least in the 10 minutes in which it is actually fulfilling the promise of...
Prom Night (1980)
I think somewhere in their hearts every critic who championed John Carpenter’s Halloween knew what was to follow. Success breeds imitators, and none quite so...
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Honeysuckle Rose is a movie that I wish had gone through one more pass of editing before being released to the public. There’s a wonderful...
