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Places in the Heart (1984, USA) is one inspirational film from the 1980’s. There is a trial from the outset, later becoming a story of overcoming the odds. The story Bad news comes to the Deep South, 1935. In the midst of the Great Depression, a death comes to the Spalding family. On his duties…

“I’ll be seeing you”, says Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray, to a concerned environmentalist, in the 1984 original Ghostbusters. Venkman is being tongue-in-cheek. But it’s really: we’ll be seeing you Dr. Venkman. The concerned environmentalist only saw the toxic residue that comes from storing, wait for it, ghosts. But who are you going…

The Elephant Man: This choice of film for director David Lynch was something of a departure from his debut Eraserhead two years earlier. Eraserhead was truly independent film-making, but The Elephant Man (1980), set in Victorian England, was a mainstream drama. After The Elephant Man, Lynch then directed Dune, a science fiction blockbuster that turned…

Too cynical. Satirizing classical Hollywood was always going to be interesting, but Hail Caesar! (2016, USA) does not quite hit the mark. It lacks imagination. Hail, Caesar! will still divide audiences: some will find it hilarious, but others will be put-off by its incessant cynicism and ultimate hollow feeling. Filming a crucifixion scene in a biblical…
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