Tag: 1986

  • The sour overpowers the sweet in About Last Night…

    The sour overpowers the sweet in About Last Night…

    Even though I think I have to casually give Edward Zwick’s About Last Night… only three stars here, there’s a lot to commend it. There’s no high concept or clever hook to slap on the poster: no one falls in love with their maid or the magnate destroying their small business, no one gets amnesia […]

  • Like a pizza in the rain: Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild

    Like a pizza in the rain: Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild

    You know you’ve graduated from Movie Buff into Old Movie Buff when you start saying “they don’t make movies like this any more”… but what if they really don’t make movies like this any more? Catching up on Jonathan Demme’s filmography with Something Wild and Married to the Mob has really brought home the realization […]

  • Girls and Their Unicorns: Ridley Scott’s Legend

    Girls and Their Unicorns: Ridley Scott’s Legend

    Ridley Scott’s 1986 fantasy experiment Legend features a very young Tom Cruise (before he was “Tom Cruise”), costarring opposite vats upon vats of glitter. Cruise’s performance is bizarre and high-pitched, composed of crouched poses and unfocused stares. But to be fair, how else would any actor portray an uncivilized wild-child with a weirdly mundane name […]