The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Rocky II (1979)
Most sequels to successful films are just running a victory lap. They aren’t necessary and largely they just repeat the same formula in order to...
Goldengirl (1979)
If you look just at the poster for Goldengirl, you have only a slight hint at what it might be about. If features blonde and...
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
I saw Butch and Sundance: The Early Years late on a Friday night on a local channel in my hometown of Birmingham Alabama where it...
The Promise (1979)
Oh! The movies I've seen!The Promise is one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. I’m serious. I sat there appalled at the level of collective...
Players (1979)
There may be nothing on Earth that can kill sports romance movie like a movie in which you don’t care about the sport and you...
Manhattan (1979)
For years I didn’t like Woody Allen’s Manhattan. I first saw it as a teenager and at that time it became part of my dislike for...
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Perhaps the best thing that can be said about George Romero’s zombie pictures is that he tries to take them seriously enough but still make...
