The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Killer Fish (1979)
I’m just going to guess that someone saw a double-bill of Jaws and The Deep and thought “I’ve got a way to make both of...
The Runner Stumbles (1980)
Stanley Kramer’s The Runner Stumbles feels about fifty years out of date, maybe sixty. I’m not being glib, I’m just observing that every emotional display...
Running (1979)
Oh, Rocky! What have you done to us? The inevitable fallout to a successful movie – particularly one that walks away with an Oscar for...
French Postcards (1979)
The worst thing that can happen to a movie, for me, is when you can spot the obvious influences present in the material. It’s not...
Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)
Skatetown, U.S.A. is a real study. It was obviously made to cash in on the roller disco trend, stitched together by filmmakers who thought that...
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
I came to When a Stranger Calls in the weeks before its release back in 1979. I was too young to see it, but I...
Head Over Heels (1979)
It is strange that in the same weekend that I saw Running, the insipid Michael Douglas sports movie ripped off from Best Picture winner Rocky,...
