Written by Frances Mayes and Audrey WellsDirected by Audrey Wells I generally hate movies that depict the be-all-to-end-all of a woman’s life as finding “a good man” to settle down with. It […]
Movie Review – The Manchurian Candidate (2004): The Wrong Time for a Thriller About a Presidential Race?
Written by Richard Condon, George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne, and Dean GeorgarisDirected by Jonathan Demme I hadn’t seen the original Manchurian Candidate until a few months prior to seeing the remake. A discussion […]
Movie Review – American Gun: James Coburn’s Final Film is Perhaps His Best Performance in Years
Written by Alan JacobsDirected by Alan Jacobs Don’t be fooled by the title. If you think this is a “liberal Hollywood anti-gun propaganda film”, you might be missing a touching story about […]
Movie Review: Philadelphia – Impactful Depiction of AIDS Epidemic and Legal Advocacy
Written by Ron NyswanerDirected by Jonathan Demme Although I am thrilled about the “warp speed” vaccine, y’all better thank ACT UP. The efforts that cause this type of fast track are solely […]
Movie Review: Picking up the Pieces – It Should Have Been “An Alan Smithee Film”
Written by Bill WilsonDirected by Alfonso Arau Every now and then I come across a movie that looks so absurd, I just know it has to be funny. When I read the […]
Movie Review: The Thorn Birds – Award-Winning Mini-Series with Gripping Storyline and Memorable Soundtrack
Written by Carmen Culver, Colleen McCullough, and Lee StanleyDirected by Daryl Duke With the increasing use of a mini-series to adapt novels in the late seventies and early eighties, many stories that […]
Movie Review: Fahrenheit 9/11 – We Didn’t Start the Fire…
Written by Michael MooreDirected by Michael Moore Back in 2004, I saw this film in theaters. It was quite ironic that I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 in a Loews theater, which was then […]
Movie Review: Dante’s Peak – Every 70’s Disaster Flick Cliche Crammed into Two Hours of Better Effects
Written by Leslie BohemDirected by Roger Donaldson For a while in the mid-90s, it seemed that the advent of computer-generated special effects brought on a resurrection of disaster films, with special effects […]
Movie Review: Dead Heat (2002) – A Mediocre Cliched Film
Written by Mark MaloneDirected by Mark Malone Even before the resurrection of his career with the television show 24, I was always a big fan of Kiefer Sutherland’s. He seemed to have […]
Chris Columbus’ Young Sherlock Holmes: A Look Back at an ’80s Mystery Film
Written by Chris Columbus and Arthur Conan DoyleDirected by Barry Levinson A mysterious caped figure prowls the streets of London. Locating its target, the figure raises a tube to its mouth. The […]
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