The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Wanderer (1979)
Watching The Wanderers, I kept thinking back to American Graffiti, not in accusing the film of being a rip-off but in the need to catch...
Moonraker (1979)
If there is one trademark of the Roger Moore Bond film, it might be the foolhardy way in which the producers are willing to take...
Sidney Sheldon’s Bloodline (1979)
I never read a Sidney Sheldon book. When I was a kid, they were the books that my mom’s friends were forever reading, books with...
Meatballs (1979)
I didn’t laugh much at Meatballs but I can confidently report that it wasn’t for lack of trying on the part of the filmmakers. This...
The Main Event (1979)
The Main Event is a movie so stupid and so disorganized yet contains so much promise that you almost wish that is could go back...
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
“No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz . . . and no one ever will.”So says the hard-bound warden of the infamous Alcatraz island prison...
The Muppet Movie (1979)
You know, the haughty film critic that lives in my bones is always trying to analyze why certain things work and why some things do...
