The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Champ (1979)
[reviewed February 14, 2021] Okay, I suppose that if you have to remake The Champ, you could do a lot worse. At a moment in...
Phantasm (1979)
The horror movies of the late 1970s seem to have this hazy, dreamy, hangover feel to them. Everyone looks like garbage; the music is interminably...
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Boulevard Nights was released in March of 1979, just six weeks after Walter Hill's The Warriors and upon release drew outrage from anti-fascist groups who claimed that...
Beyond the Door, Part 2 (1977)
It might have something to do with the value of my time that I never saw Beyond the Door, but that notion is quickly shattered...
Fast Break (1979)
If you saw Gabe Kaplan on television in the title role of “Welcome Back, Kotter,” then you’ve pretty much seen Fast Break, only in this...
The Bell Jar (1979)
I read Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” when I was in college, mainly to understand why my female classmates were so moved by it and,...
The China Syndrome (1979)
I’ll be honest, I generally have an emotional distance from movies with a social conscience because I know that, by the very nature of the...
