Category: 1982 movies
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Blu-ray Review: FIGHTING BACK
by Anthony King Pride is a b*tch. In director Lewis Teague’s third feature, Fighting Back (1982), Tom Skerritt plays Italian grocer John D’Angelo. His wife Lisa (Patti Lupone) is pregnant with their third child, John’s elderly mother lives with them, and it all seems quite idyllic. While driving home from a going away party for…
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52/82: The Ranking
by Anthony King It is finished. This list is obviously definitive. Also, this ranking only pertains to the 52 movies I watched and doesn’t include masterpieces like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, E.T., or The Thing. 52. Girls Night Out – The lone movie on this list without a Letterboxd heart. 51. Penitentiary II –…
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52/82: MY FAVORITE YEAR
by Anthony King We love a mid-century period piece. When I think back on the 12 previous months of my life, I see some really special moments. We took an amazing family vacation to the Outer Banks; my two boys grew another year; I developed some really special relationships. Most importantly, though, and tangentially related…
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52/82: TOOTSIE
by Anthony King Nobody does a tomato like Dustin Hoffman. When I hear Dave Grusin’s main title from his score to Tootsie, I’m immediately transported back to the late ’80s at my aunt and uncle’s house. They lived in a part of town where the water tasted better (city water as opposed to our disgusting…
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52/82: FIRST BLOOD
by Anthony King “Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.” – Carl Jung As far as acting chops goes it seems as though Sylvester Stallone gets a bad rap. True, his filmography touts action masterpieces like Cobra, Over the Top, Tango & Cash, Judge Dredd, and dozens more memorable roles where he’s playing it big.…
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52/82: BRITANNIA HOSPITAL
by Anthony King Down with privilege! Smash imperialist rule! I wish movies depicting class struggle would turn into time portals – history books, if you will – but unfortunately these stories will forever be relevant. From Sergei Einstein’s Strike (1925) and The Marx Brothers in Leo McCarey’s Duck Soup (1933) to Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite (2019)…
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52/82: RAW FORCE
by Anthony King A live action cartoon with boobs! It was a year ago I decided to write about 52 movies released in 1982. When I started making my list of movies I wanted to cover, there was one movie that caught my attention immediately. I had never heard of it, but Vinegar Syndrome had…
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52/82: FIREFOX
by Anthony King A movie about meetings about meetings. When I first set out to do this series there were a handful of movies I knew I had to write about because I either loved them and wanted to bring more attention to them, or the poster and plot synopsis made them sound amazing. For…
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52/82: I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES
by Anthony King If we can’t get real baseball then we’ll settle for baseball adjacent movies. When I hear the name Walter Matthau, I immediately think of his longtime friend and frequent co-star Jack Lemmon, with whom he appeared in 10 films. The second name that comes to mind is the brilliant writer of stage…
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52/82: BUTTERFLY
by Anthony King After all, why shouldn’t I watch another movie about incest? Fifteen minutes into Matt Cimber’s Butterfly, I was all but convinced this was going to be the worst movie I watch for this series. And then something happened. I can’t tell you what that exact “something” was, but while the film didn’t…