I first saw “Body Heat” shortly after it was released in 1981, when I was in law school, which might have been the ideal and worst possible time to encounter it. Lawrence Kasdan’s film arrived ...

Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat provided the hot-blooded template for a spate of 1980s and ’90s films that ranged from neo-noirs like The Grifters and After Dark, My Sweet to the veritable ...