The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
Murder by Decree (1979)
It’s just a tempting idea, isn’t it? The notion of reinventing Sherlock Holmes and putting him on trail of Jack the Ripper - famous detective,...
The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
[reviewed February 11, 2021] Today it is difficult to remember when the Disney company wasn’t doing so well, but between Walt Disney’s death in 1966...
Quintet (1979)
When Robert Altman’s films are good, they’re very, very good. When they’re not, they’re Quintet. What in the world made him want to get involved...
The Warriors (1979)
Why didn’t they just steal a car?This is a question that plagues me about The Warriors, Walter Hill’s ultra-violent cult-classic about a group of New...
The Great Train Robbery (1979)
Having attempted to read some of Michael Critchton’s books, I can imagine that the best way to adapt them for the screen is to first...
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
I want to love Picnic at Hanging Rock so much that it hurts. Here is a strange Australian drama that spools out such a tasty and...
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1979)
One of the drawbacks of being a movie lover is, very often, watching very bad films walk away with the Oscar while better films are...
