Darkman (1990)
Reportedly, director Sam Raimi wanted to film the old comic hero, The Shadow, but couldn’t get the rights, so he created a darker, more bleak version in Darkman. It’s much darker than its big-screen predecessor...
Author: Vincent Leo
Octopussy (1983)
After taking a less campy approach with For Your Eyes Only, the Bond series returns to the tongue-in-cheek adventures that had become the staple of the Roger Moore era. Also, for the first time there...
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Francisco Scaramanga (Lee) is the world’s leading assassin, pulling in a million dollars per killing. He loves the kill as much as the money, thinking it an art-form, as evidenced by his use of...
Anger Management (2003)
As appealing as the match-up of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson is, very little else seems right about Anger Management, a very contrived comedy that plays mostly for lowbrow laughs and silly hysterics. The two...
Schindler’s List (1993)
Sometimes a film is more than a film. Sometimes it’s an indefinable experience, so gripping and engaging that you soon forget you are even watching a movie. Schindler’s List is one such film. Without a...
Giving It Up (1999)
Whether you know this by the original title Casanova Falling, the international title No Sex 4 U, or the home video title Giving It Up, a stinker by any other name reeks just as bad. In the...
The Good Thief (2002)
The Good Thief is a loose remake of the classic French film, Bob le Flambeur, and with all of the heist films that have come out in recent years, I suppose it would seem as good...
A Man Apart (2003)
I hate to see talented actors and a good directorial job go to waste on a derivative script. A Man Apart just doesn’t deserve someone as skillful at the action as F. Gary Gray or...
Phone Booth (2002)
Phone Booth is B-movie theatrics given A-movie treatment. If this were an independent short film, like the student film where this reportedly draws its inspiration, End of the Line, it would be a terrific idea, at...
Maybe Baby (2000)
The concept behind Maybe Baby, a couple try everything possible to get pregnant in vain, isn’t really a novel one (unless you count that it’s based on director Ben Elton’s novel, “Inconceivable”), although this situation is mostly...