The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Island (1980)
It is kind of a strange irony that within 48 hours I saw The Island and the Sunn Classic Pictures’ feux-documentary The Bermuda Triangle. Both...
Wholly Moses! (1980)
Wholly Moses! Is a comedy that illustrates the key problem with trying to satirize the Bible, and that is that the Bible isn’t funny in...
Up the Academy (1980)
This movie is not funny. There isn’t a gag that works. Notta one. It’s a complete washout.Maybe it was too much to ask that a...
Galaxina (1980)
Galaxina promises so much and delivers very little. It’s a comedy that is too slow; a sci-fi movie with very little imagination; and it’s a...
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Watching The Empire Strikes Back, I was reminded of when I read “The Lord of the Rings”. When I got the second chapter, I realized...
Fame (1980)
I have an intense admiration for anyone who has a deep passion for something, especially when they are young. I get it. I do. For...
The Nude Bomb (1980)
There are a lot of reasons why the “Get Smart” movie The Nude Bomb doesn’t work, and possibly the fact that it wasn’t funny is...
