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ripe with explosions , mass death and really weird hairdos , tsui hark's " double team " must be the result of a tipsy hollywood power lunch that decided jean-claude van damme needs another notch on his bad movie-bedpost and nba superstar dennis rodman should have an acting career .
actually , in " double team , " nei... | 0 |
synopsis : sonny koufax ( adam sandler ) is a rich , childish , angry man who has just been dumped by his girlfriend vanessa ( kristy swanson ) .
in a bid to impress vanessa sonny impersonates his friend kevin ( jon stewart ) and adopts a 5 year old boy named julian ( cole and dylan sprouse ) while kevin is on an over... | 0 |
so , it's thirty years later , and oscar and felix are together again .
that might have been an exciting notion if it wasn't for the fact that the " odd couple " of jack lemmon and walter matthau have been reunited in several recent movies : 1993's " grumpy old men , " 1995's " grumpier old men , " and 1997's " out to... | 0 |
synopsis : a novelist struggling with his latest work buys a weird brain with a protruding eyeball encased in a jar .
the brain exerts its evil influence upon the novelist and his secretary , while his wife disapproves .
meanwhile , a loan shark in need of a shave tries to leave his profession .
comments : why is th... | 0 |
mike myers , you certainly did throw us a ? frickin' bone here in what you call ? the biggest austin powers adventure yet . '
austin powers : the spy who shagged me is the sequel to the 1997 smash comedy austin powers : international man of mystery .
many are skeptical about sequels , saying that the sequel is never ... | 1 |
the most popular trend of the last couple of years has been the twist ending .
watching one of these movies , everything seems to make sense until suddenly you are blown away by an unexpected surprise .
when the film ends , there is a moment of confusion , then recollection , then some more confusion , then possibly ... | 0 |
tommy lee jones chases an innocent victim around america who is trying to prove that she did not kill her spouse .
the fugitive ?
not quite ? this is the plot for double jeopardy , another fugitive copycat without the action , excitement , and good acting that the original had .
there are other slight differences be... | 0 |
don't let this movie fool you into believing the romantic noirs of william shakespeare .
no one will truly understand the heart and soul of this man except through his work , and this movie makes a vain attempt at that .
any moves to ? glamorise' his life , which hollywood has an annoying tendency to do , will only s... | 0 |
one of the best things about my job is that , every so often , a film still catches me by surprise .
" spy kids " certainly did .
an adventure story aimed primarily at children , the movie is smart , zippy fun .
the production neither panders nor talks down to its audience .
the brother and sister at the center of... | 1 |
bob the happy bastard's quickie review :
rush hour
so what's the problem with 48 hours clones these days ?
they always try for the same thing that eddie murphy and nick nolte had .
that was the problem that plagued these clones , not to mention the actual sequel : another 48 hours , a complete waste of film .
but ... | 1 |
luckily , some people got starship troopers .
some people knew it was supposed to be silly .
for those of you who didn't , how could you miss it ?
from the very beginning , when we see an interactive internet-like promotional video for the armed forces of the future , it should be obvious this film is to be taken li... | 1 |
m : i-2 , the sequel to mission impossible , is a james bond wannabe film , but it fails to even come close to that film in wit , humor , and entertainment value .
it tries to be a spy/romance movie , but without any suspense the film just looks like it's an extended commercial for dudes who think they look cool in th... | 0 |
your first clue that something isn't gonna be quite right with the movie you're about to see : it's heavily christmas-themed and its release date is , oh , say , at the end of february .
your second clue that something isn't gonna be quite right with the movie you're about to see : charlize theron , one of the movie's... | 0 |
like a good action film should , " metro " has action that keeps you involved .
some action films have action sequences that are so conventional , our attention is detracted and diverted by other thoughts .
" the ghost in the darkness , " which opened a few months ago , is a film that s action was so bland and uninv... | 0 |
no matter what you suspect , this isn't your usual action thriller .
the usual suspects is an intelligent crime mystery story from up-and-coming director bryan singer .
it's one of those movies that , after everything is revealed rapid-fire at the end , you immediately want to rewind and watch again because earlier s... | 1 |
written by alex cox , tod davies , terry gilliam and tony grisoni
directed by terry gilliam
i've always preferred mushrooms to blotter acid .
dropping acid is like riding a roller coaster blindfolded ; you have no idea where the peaks and valleys are , no idea when the next terrifying decent will send your stomach i... | 0 |
i have no real tangible proof of this , but i swear that there are a lot of producers in hollywood who adamantly believe that if you take a bad script , written by a bad writer and give the project it to an equally bad director , then it is actually possible to make a good movie .
using their logic , all that really n... | 0 |
capsule : bleak and point-blank -- just the way it should be .
makes its case with cold-blooded precision and intelligence .
" serial killer chic " is a relatively new entry to the cultural vocabulary , and one of the more stomach-turning ones .
i've never found someone automatically admirable or even interesting b... | 1 |
labelling is sometimes everything .
in original mad max , the opening title set the plot of the movie in near future , thus making it one of the science fiction classics , despite the future world being almost exactly like our own .
walter hill wanted the same opening title for his action classic the warriors .
prod... | 1 |
it's wednesday , march 27 , and a murder investigation is underway in charlotte , south carolina .
the crime : a young prostitute , elizabeth ( renee zellweger ) , has been brutally slain .
one half of her severed body was found in a bag at the train station .
the other half was discovered in a trunk at the harbor a... | 1 |
one of the most blatantly obvious signs that often-acclaimed director sidney lumet's " gloria , " a remake of the 1980 john cassavetes film , had absolutely no effect on me occurred when i was driving home from the theatre .
suddenly , i realized that since i had stood up from my theatre seat five minutes before , i h... | 0 |
when i saw the trailer for " the sixth sense , " i didn't expect much from it .
my snap judgment was that it was a watered-down version of " the shining " or possibly a late-entry in the glut of angel-related movies/tv shows of a couple years ago .
but all the buzz motivated me to give it a shot .
it turned out to b... | 1 |
a big surprise to me .
the good trailer had hinted that they pulled the impossible off , but making a blues brothers movie without jake blues ( john belushi ) is such a dumb idea i really had no hope .
they replaced him just fine .
not with john goodman , he didn't do much of anything , but with the brilliant actor ... | 1 |
a life less ordinary ( r ) while the extremely peculiar a life less ordinary does live up to its title , a more appropriate moniker would be a movie more misguided , for this confused , confusing attempt at romantic comedy is a most disarming disaster from the talented trainspotting team of director danny boyle , produ... | 0 |
the following review encompasses two versions of dune :
dune : the theatrical version ( 1984 ) runtime : 137 minutes capsule review : cut down to just over two hours by nervous studio executives , the theatrical version of dune is a spectacular mess and may be incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the book .
the ... | 0 |
glory--starring matthew broderick , denzel washington , and morgan freeman--is the true story of the 54th regiment of massachusetts , the first black fighting unit recruited by the north during the civil war .
broderick plays robert gould shaw , the young white officer who led the black soldiers into battle .
shaw , ... | 1 |
starring william baldwin ; cindy crawford & steven berkoff all right , the first problem that fair game has is the casting of supermodel cindy crawford in the lead role .
not that cindy does that bad , it's just that anyone who watches this film knows from moment one that that little bit of casting was not done becaus... | 0 |
walken stars as a mobster who is kidnapped and held for ransom by four bratty rich kids .
it seems that a woman has also been kidnapped--she is the sister of one of them ( e . t . 's
henry thomas ) and the girlfriend of another ( flannery ) --and the asking price is $2 million , which said snots are unable to cough u... | 0 |
hollywood never fails to astound me .
every time i think those coked-up little buggers have hit rock bottom ; they come up with a new excavating tool .
i was truly convinced that " wild wild west " marked 1999 studio filmmaking at its most hapless , but then along comes " end of days " to prove me wrong .
this big b... | 0 |
the heist of a flawless , 84 carat diamond , fixed bare knuckle fights , irish gypsies and a dog are just some of the goings on in director guy ritchies's sophomore feature , " snatch . "
" lock , stock and two smoking barrels " intro'd helmer/scripter ritchie with a hyper-kinetic , in your face underworld comedy tha... | 1 |
" well this is not mission : difficult , mr . hunt , it's mission : impossible .
difficult should be a walk in the park for you . "
---agent swanbeck ( sir anthony hopkins ) , the series' new agent phelps , takes ethan hunt ( tom cruise ) down a notch .
a russian scientist ( rade serbedzija ) has created a new virus... | 1 |
renowned hong kong action director tsui hark first teamed with jean-claude van damme on the action star's 1997 pairing with dennis rodman , _double_team_ , and managed to make what initially appeared to be a disaster into a slick , stylish , and somewhat diverting action timekiller .
tsui continues to energetically pi... | 0 |
much ballyhoo has been made over this new version of " lolita , " made in a time when one would think that a faithful adaptation of the infamous novel could be made , over its use of pedophilia , and as such , it's important to address it straight-forwardly , before any other ideals such as goodness and themes can be d... | 1 |
i cried during _babe_ .
i admit it .
the special effects , the story , the great dialogue were woven together so delicately and successfully that my mind lost track that this was a " children's film " --so much so that , yes , i got a little overly sentimental .
such , my friend , is the power of cinema .
when word... | 0 |
tempe mills cinema , az--this movie had us in non-stop stitches from beginning to end .
all those promotional clips that have been on tv for the past month came from the first five minutes of the movie .
if you thought they were funny , see the rest of the movie .
it's hilarious .
how does one go about making a mov... | 1 |
confession time : i have never , ever seen gone with the wind .
i don't know why , really .
haven't wanted to check it out on video , haven't been at home the nights it was on network tv , and it was too far to drive the last time it was on the big-screen .
so right up front , i'll admit that i don't know what the h... | 1 |
2 days in the valley is more or less a pulp fiction knock off .
it basically involves how a bunch of quirky characters in the los angeles area end up having their lives become intertwined in some very unusual ways .
i'm not going into much greater detail than that , since it would take forever to explain , and quite ... | 0 |
directed by : pixote hunt , hendel butoy , eric goldberg , james algar , francis glebas , gaetan & paul brizzi conducted by : james levine composed by : ludwig van beethoven , ottorino respighi , george gershwin , dmitri shostakovich , camille saint-saens , paul dukas , sir edward elgar , igor stravinsky rated : g scri... | 1 |
in many ways , " twotg " does for tough-guy movies what la confidential did for police stories .
there's savviness in its writing and a mature patience in allowing the material to unfold .
but , i suppose , we wouldn't expect less from christopher mcquarrie , who was responsible for giving us " the usual suspects " .... | 1 |
in present day hanoi , three sisters reflect on their parents' relationship while trying to define their own in writer/director tran anh hung's ( " the scent of green papaya " ) " the vertical ray of the sun . "
youngest sister lien ( tran nu yen-khe ) greets the day with hai ( ngo quanq hai ) , the only brother whom ... | 1 |
everyone's heard about this movie , and more specifically , * the * scene .
everyone's heard the famous barnyard animal quote squealed ( no pun intended ) over and over .
and everyone's got to admit that they will never travel down a river again without thinking of deliverance .
good !
that's what you're supposed t... | 1 |
very few people would be unaware of beavis & butt-head ( both created and narrated by mike judge ) .
they are the two animated mtv characters who have the most annoying laughter know to human kind .
you may have seen them on their television program , as they snigger and make lude remarks about women , anything relat... | 1 |
near the end of frank capra's holiday classic , its a wonderful life , george bailey ( jimmy stewart ) is feeling down .
he has devoted his life to others , and never fulfilled his dream of leaving his small supburb town , bedford falls .
standing upon a bridge above stormy waters , he looks down , contemplating suic... | 1 |
because the press screening of " planet of the apes " was one day past last issue's deadline , i was afforded the opportunity to see the film a second time , listen to audience reactions and read a heap of reviews before writing this piece .
the chief complaints of those who disliked the futuristic adventure appear to... | 1 |
america loves convenience .
after all , we're the culture that invented the cell phone , the 24-hour atm , and my most beloved , the remote control .
yet perhaps this time , with ghosts of mars , we have taken our love of convenience to far .
ghosts of mars stars natasha henstridge as a tough as nails , pill-poppin'... | 0 |
it's time to take cover .
after a hiatus of about fifteen years , the disaster movie has come back with renewed zest .
in early 1997 , there were no less than three movies about volcanoes alone , one on television and two in the theaters , with dante's peak and volcano in heavy competition for the moviegoing dollar .... | 0 |
the kids in the hall are an acquired taste .
it took at least a season of watching their show on hbo before i became a believer .
maybe after watching a half dozen kids in the hall movies , they would grow into the big screen .
my recommendation is that , unless you are a big fan of the kids , skip the film .
as it... | 0 |
a sensuous romantic comedy , about as appealing as your average lightweight tv sitcom .
there is no special ingredient on the menu for what is dished out , its the kind of stuff i've seen before and was made nauseous by its silly idea of love and what it thinks is funny .
the film plans to exploit the beauty and swee... | 0 |
there is a scene in patch adams in which patch is in the center of a courtroom , surrounded by people who are giving him a lively standing ovation because of his strong-worded attack on a group of stoic doctors .
when i noticed that the audience with whom i saw this film was reacting the same way , i realized that i w... | 0 |
no , i did not read the novel by thomas hardy , " jude the obscure , " his final novel ( final because this film created such an outrage that he never wrote again - see : i did do some research on it ) about a man who is plagued with bad luck throughout his entire life .
but , after watching the movie , i can imagine ... | 1 |
capsule : five friends at a stag party are involved in the accidental killing of a prostitute .
the cover-up attempt becomes a monster that eats up the friends , two wives and several innocent bystanders .
this was a real audience pleaser at toronto , but it did not do much for me .
, low 0 ( -4 to +4 )
- directed... | 0 |
if you're going to make a two-hour hollywood in-joke , why bother releasing it to the general public ?
if you're going to create a film that will appeal primarily to big-name actors and people who know woody allen , then why waste the time of the rest of us peons by playing it in theaters ?
while watching celebrity ,... | 0 |
whether or not i would be considered a trekker probably depends on whom you would ask .
i have been a fan of both the original series and its recently retired follow-up , as well as the even- numbered entries in the film series .
however , i have never been one of those folks who store away trek minutiae and get into... | 0 |
scream 2 , like its predecessor , is a genre-crossing film .
it is about 50% horror film and 50% murder mystery .
the mix worked very well last time and it continues to entertain this time .
scream was also known for its self-referential tone .
many inside jokes were made in reference to horror movies and wes crave... | 1 |
the most interesting thing about virus is that the title of the film does not refer to the clunky robotic animals that try to kill our heroes .
alas , it refers to our heroes !
as it turns out , the alien race that sends a computer virus to earth ( via the mir space station ) thinks of the human race as a virus -- pe... | 0 |
hollywood has a . 750
batting average with elmore leonard adaptations .
last year's touch was ill-conceived and just plain odd but get shorty , jackie brown and now out of sight all were highly entertaining movies .
steven soderburgh , master of sex , lies and videotape , now adds crime to his repertoire in this tal... | 1 |
plot : a big-time momma's boy can't seem to leave his mother's crib and make good on the babies that he himself has produced in the world .
he visits his kids ( and their mommas ) every now and then , but his main goal in life is . . . well , he doesn't have any goals .
then one day , his mother gets an ex-gangsta bo... | 1 |
cradle will rock is the latest effort from director/actor tim robbins .
while he may have had an oscar worthy film back in 1995 ( dead man walking ) , he gets a little overconfident and sloppy here .
the story is confusing , and filled with many subplots , so i'll try my best and explain it as simply as possible .
t... | 0 |
gere , willis , poitier chase each other around the world
the jackal a film review by michael redman copyright 1997 by michael redman
when the soviet union imploded , the western countries lost their shadow .
with the united states friendly with the russians , we no longer had an entity to blame for the world's prob... | 1 |
plot : a rich guy who doesn't believe in love , orders a mail-order bride for himself .
that very evening , the couple is married and fall madly in love soon thereafter .
but what's this ?
one of them might not be the person they are pretending to be ?
wow . . . a
sin , indeed .
critique : easily one of the worst... | 0 |
sometimes i wonder just what the censors are thinking .
take this film , " naked killer " , among it's ingredients are heavy doses of violence , rape sequences , straight and lesbian sex scenes and what our system calls " coarse language " .
but what do those intelligent people at the censorship bureau choose to remo... | 0 |
saw an advanced screening of the movie sniper last night , and i have to say i wasn't too impressed .
this film is about an expert marine sniper , played by tom berenger , who is teamed with a hot-shot-young-no-experience-never-killed-a-man new partner to take out some drug-kingpins and military strong men in panama .... | 0 |
the booming introduction music finishes , and the camera sweeps over red mountains .
we see two figures looking over a barren , and very red landscape .
they kiss , then walk on .
one of the characters ( schwarzenegger ) slips , and falls .
the glass on his mask cracks .
his face scruches up , and his eye's begin ... | 1 |
most sequels don't do what they're supposed to do like " toy story 2 " does .
far too many of them end up re-hashing the original and adding very little .
is it any wonder that most sequels fail to live up to their predecessors ?
thankfully , " toy story 2 " is a wonderful exception .
i can't remember the last time... | 1 |
ingredients : james bond , scuba scene , car controlled by cellular telephone
synopsis : warped media tycoon elliot carver ( jonathan pryce ) plots to start a war between britain and china in order to boost ratings by using a 'stealth ship' to fire a captured british missile at the city of beijing .
super-agent james... | 1 |
once again , the battle is dreamworks versus disney : earlier this year , the mammoth companies fought to the death with their end-of-the-world asteroid flicks , deep impact and armageddon .
here we are now , just a few months later , and they're at it again with dueling bug movies , antz and a bug's life .
what i fi... | 1 |
at one point during brian de palma's crime epic scarface , the radiant michelle pfeiffer turns to a ranting al pacino and pops a question that the audience has no doubt been wanting to ask for themselves : " can't you stop saying 'fuck' all the time ? "
fucking good question , that .
it may not be an honour that inst... | 1 |
ingredients : man with amnesia who wakes up wanted for murder , dark science fiction city controlled by alien beings with mental powers .
synopsis : what if you woke up one day , and suspected you were not on earth , and instead were part of an experiment in a giant space terrarium manipulated by intergalactic alien z... | 1 |
it's not often that i laugh so hard at a movie that my head hurts .
but that's just what happened to me at uhf , weird al yankovic's big screen debut .
uhf is a television parody a la airplane , and like airplane , the movie is extraordinarily stupid .
but it's dumb in the best way a movie can be dumb : it's so sill... | 1 |
steve soderbergh's " sex , lies , and videotape , " which won the grand prize at the cannes film festival in 1989 , arguably began the resurgence of independent films .
made on a shoestring budget of $1 . 2 million , with then relatively unknown actors , it is a provocative , thoroughly original drama .
the film most... | 1 |
when a someone journeys to the theater to see a comedy , he always risks having to sit through inanity such as what we recently saw in films like edtv and office space .
it really is too bad that comedies are so hit- and-miss , because when a moviegoer goes in a theater expecting to be amused , it really is a shame wh... | 1 |
when critics attack seemingly well-intentioned films like patch adams or more recently pay it forward as i am about to do , their opinions are often greeted with a backlash of angry e-mails , sometimes even mock death threats from those who ( i suppose ) like to be shamelessly manipulated by their entertainment .
even... | 0 |
susan granger's review of " osmosis jones " ( warner bros . )
if the farrelly brothers taught anatomy & physiology in school , no one would cut ever class .
this hip , live action/animation story begins as a monkey snatches a hard-boiled egg from frank , a zookeeper ( bill murray ) , who grabs it back , drops it , th... | 1 |
in tim burton's `sleepy hollow' , there is a mysterious headless horseman who decapitates residents of the small town of the same name .
he rides a beautiful black steed and carries an imposing sword that cauterizes the wound of his victims with an immediate swipe .
burton's update on washington irving's classic tale... | 1 |
brian de palma , the director who bought us carrie , dressed to kill and mission : impossible is back , and has bought all his technical expertise with him .
sadly , he forget to bring a good story and believable characters .
nic cage plays rick santaro , a fast talking cop who is watching a boxing match with his fri... | 0 |
alchemy is steeped in shades of blue .
kieslowski's blue , that is .
with its examination of death , isolation , character restoration , and recovery from loss , suzanne myers' new independent film echoes the polish director's internationally-acclaimed 1993 release .
language aside , the principal difference between... | 1 |
a frequent error is the categorization of a terrorist as a soldier or a common criminal .
a soldier commits acts of violence sanctioned by one nation-state against another .
a common criminal commits acts of violence for personal gain .
a terrorist employs random violence as a means to a political end .
if the targ... | 1 |
when i originally saw the trailer for " analyze this " a few months ago , i must admit , i thought it looked kind of lame .
and then when the commercials started popping up a week or two ago , i thought it looked outright bad .
but then when " analyze this " finally opened a few days ago , an odd thing happened .
it... | 0 |
we could paraphrase michelle pfieffer's character in dangerous minds and say that beyond rangoon starts with an " a . "
that's fair enough .
all movies , like all school children , should be given the benefit of the doubt .
the chance to succeed .
after all , we like to think that the right combination of talent an... | 0 |
wild things is a way to steam up an otherwise dreary early spring day ? provided , of course , that you're the victim of a frontal lobotomy .
there is , in fact , no doubt about who this motion picture is aimed at : movie-goers in their late teens and early twenties -- the most lucrative target group .
this is film n... | 0 |
synopsis : rumored to be about a true person , the story of mulan has circulated in oral tradition for over a thousand years , and has inspired operas , literature , and even coinage .
( since 1984 , china has been issuing annual gold and silver coin sets commemorating famous historical figures ; the 1992 set include... | 1 |
" last night " could have an " aka " tagged on the end of it that says , " it's the end of the world , and we feel fine " .
" last night " is about just that .
the last night of planet earth's existence .
the world is going to end at precisely midnight , january 1st , 2000 .
how scientists were so accurately able ... | 1 |
spoiled rich kid kelley morse ( chris klein ) receives a new mercedes for a graduation present .
he and his buddies take it for a joyride to a small nearby town , where he proceeds to torment the locals simply because he's rich and they're not .
he ends up provoking jasper ( josh hartnett ) into a race and as a resul... | 0 |
>from writer and director darren stein comes jawbreaker , the poorly told tale of what can happen when an innocent birthday prank goes wrong .
at reagan high , four girls are sitting on top of the world .
courtney shane , played by rose mcgowan , holds the title of meanest , most disrespectful soul in the school .
e... | 0 |
by phil curtolo mel gibson ( braveheart ) gave a gripping performance as the father of a young kidnapped boy in ron howard's ransom .
gibson plays tom mullen , a wealthy business tycoon whose past actions are coming back to haunt him as a deranged psychopath , played by gary sinise ( forrest gump ) , and his band of l... | 1 |
aspiring broadway composer robert ( aaron williams ) secretly carries a torch for his best friend , struggling actor marc ( michael shawn lucas ) .
the problem is , marc only has eyes for " perfect 10s , " which the geeky , insecure robert certainly is not .
meanwhile , marc's spoiled ( hetero ) female roommate , cyn... | 0 |
starring arnold schwarzenegger ; danny devito ; emma thompson & frank langella the only thing that you can say about junior is that it is a disappointment , and a big one at that .
junior brings together arnold schwarzenegger and danny devito with director ivan reitman .
these are the same men that brought us the ver... | 0 |
it's tough to be an aspiring superhero in champion city .
just ask mr . furious ( ben stiller ) , the blue raja ( hank azaria ) , and the shoveler ( william h . macy ) .
they're trying to break into the biz , but captain amazing ( greg kinnear ) , the city's hero numero uno , hogs all the action .
the good captain h... | 0 |
" quest for camelot " is warner bros . ' first feature-length , fully-animated attempt to steal clout from disney's cartoon empire , but the mouse has no reason to be worried .
the only other recent challenger to their throne was last fall's promising , if flawed , 20th century fox production " anastasia , " but disne... | 0 |
leonardo decaprio ( what's eating gilbert grape ) and claire danes ( tv's my so called life ) star in director baz luhrmann's modernized version of william shakespeare's classic , romeo & juliet .
surrounded by a superb supporting cast , in-cluding paul sorvino ( goodfellas ) , brian dennehy ( tommy boy ) , pete posle... | 1 |
dear god , this is a fantastically bad film !
regardless of what i say about knock off , you can't grasp its awfulness from my words .
you have to see it and experience it for yourself .
here's the kicker , though -- i suggest that you do so .
yes , this is a bad film -- easily one of the most incompetent films of ... | 0 |
by starring in amy heckerling's " clueless " two summers ago , alicia silverstone proved she wasn't just another pretty , pouty ingenue , showing a buoyant comedic craftiness that blew all previous jobs -- namely a stint as the aerosmith girl and a silly turn as the lethal lolita of " the crush " -- out of the water . ... | 0 |
i think we should , as responsible citizens , all get together and stop jim carrey from making another movie .
he's changing the cinema as we know it--and for the worst .
i would willingly rewatch batman and robin rather then again sit through this miserable collection of filmic moments--prologues , epilogues , etc .... | 0 |
the second serial-killer thriller of the month is just awful .
oh , it starts deceptively okay , with a handful of intriguing characters and some solid location work .
after a baby-sitter gets gutted in the suit- ably spooky someone's-in-the-house prologue , parallel stories unfold , the first involving a texas sheri... | 0 |
capsule : one of the ten worst movies ever made .
christopher lambert vs . evil ninjas in modern-day japan . . .
and nobody wins .
the hunted is such a bad movie , so completely inept and so totally brain-damaged that i could almost feel affection for it .
i could see myself showing this movie to friends and gettin... | 0 |
upon taking a seat at the theater , and surveying the crowd , i soon realized that i was the only person under forty in the premises .
i'm twenty-two , but have been accused of looking sixteen .
yet as the film began , any consciousness of setting shifted to the home of five close-knit , yet troubled sisters .
direc... | 1 |
in double jeopardy , the stakes are high .
think of the plot as a rehash of sleeping with the enemy , and then rearrange the details and the gender of the stalker .
the finished product , although able to maintain the viewer's attention , is a predictable and unexciting thriller with an idiotic script .
`alex , i'll... | 0 |
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star trek : first contact a film review by michael dequina copyright 1996 michael dequina
star trek : first contact ( pg-13 ) anyone familiar wit... | 1 |
the andromeda strain is the greatest science fiction film ever made .
i know that is very sweeping statement , so i'll qualify it by adding that the andromeda strain is one of the few films made that genuinely deserve the label of " science fiction , " stories in which speculative science is at the core of the plot . ... | 1 |
ahh yes .
the teenage romance .
an attractive young cast is pitted into an unlikely scenario that could only happen in the movies , and in the end , the guy always gets the girl .
and with the arrival of the breakout hit `she's all that' last year ( followed by a long catalogue of imitators including `10 things i ha... | 0 |
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