The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Hot Stuff (1979)
I have a great love of Dom DeLuise. He’s the kind of guy that seems like he could keep you laughing at a meeting or...
Sunburn (1979)
It doesn’t take a genius to equate that the reason that Sunburn exists is to sell a movie with Farrah Fawcett wearing beachwear. It’s right...
More American Graffiti (1979)
I so wanted to like More American Graffiti. Most sequels are just lazy reruns, but I found this one a little more ambitious, and yet...
North Dallas Forty (1979)
Nineteen Seventy-Nine seems to have been the year of the post-Rocky sports movie. Stallone’s great film inspired dozens of filmmakers to change the template of...
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The poster for The Amityville Horror tells us – practically screams at us – the words "For God's Sake, Get Out!" Having seen the movie,...
Dracula (1979)
With the production code safely gone, the 1970s became fertile ground for all manner of previously taboo content. Nudity, violence, foul-language, scandalous situations – they...
Lost and Found (1979)
I was not a fan of Melvin Frank’s A Touch of Class, which made a lot of money and was lauded by critics back in...
