Stand By Me
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Stand By Me is an instant classic, driven by powerful performances of the four child actors and a brilliant script that balances out the sadness in life with simple moments of compassion and humor.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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The Temple of Doom is like the story you’d read about in an old-fashioned dime novel—the kind with the woman in tattered clothing swooning while the intrepid explorer defends her from a jungle tiger...
Read MoreBig Trouble in Little China
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White dude stumbling across ancient Asian mystic war? Check. Asian warriors literally floating in the air with lightning shooting out of their eyes? Yup…
Read MoreThe Neverending Story
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The most frustrating part about watching The Neverending Story is how tantalizingly close it is to being a great film…
Read MoreSixteen Candles
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I get the impression from watching ’80s films that the decade is not from a different time period but a completely different dimension. Take Sixteen Candles: boys nonchalantly talking about date rape, photographing passed out women, locking geeks in trunks, blatant racism against Asians, and underage drinking and driving…
Read MoreWhen Harry Met Sally
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Overall, When Harry Met Sally is deserving of its classic status in pop culture. It does have some unfinished strings attached to it, but the comedy manages to cover it up smoothly…
Read MoreThe Secret of NIMH
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Mrs. Brisby is a timid yet courageous figure dealing with the absolute worst possible outcome. But the movie tosses in the rats’ backstory like an afterthought, and in an already anthropomorphized universe, fails to deliver on why the rats are more significant than other creatures…
Read MoreThe Last Unicorn
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Many of the plot points from the book are hastily thrown into the movie, and where the book has the luxury of threading in the thematic elements within the narration, the film’s pacing is rushed and feel like random scenes thrown together…
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