Last week, we posted a story about how 1984 was the best movie year ever when it comes to films you actually want to watch on a rainy day playing hooky from work. Movies like Ghostbusters ...

“My only hope,” former Voice film critic Andrew Sarris writes in his 1977 best-of list, reprinted below, “is that I will have all the ’80s in which to reconsider the ’70s.”With the ...

For many film scholars the era of the whiz-bang summer movie season began in May 1977 with the release of George Lucas' plucky space opera "Star Wars" in theaters. While the summer of 1975 brought ...

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Read Newsday's original 1977 movie review, in which our critic called the franchise's first release "one of the greatest adventure movies ever made." Skip to content Menu Today's paper.