Return to Me (2000)
Bob is a contract builder in Chicago, with a nice life and loving vet wife. After a tragic car accident leaves his wife for dead, her heart is transplanted into the ailing Grace, a...
2000s / Comedy / Drama / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published October 7, 2000 · Last modified February 16, 2019
Bob is a contract builder in Chicago, with a nice life and loving vet wife. After a tragic car accident leaves his wife for dead, her heart is transplanted into the ailing Grace, a...
Based on Nick Hornby’s book of the same name, this features Rob, owner of a small vinyl record store which caters to obscure and hard-to-get vinyl lovers. Rob seems to have hit an impasse...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 24, 2000 · Last modified December 10, 2019
After director Gordon Chan’s last lackadaisically fun flick, Beast Cops, he turns up the heat with an equally exciting and action-packed tale of computer espionage in 2000 A.D. According to the film, those who can control...
Director Tim Burton has a following of individuals who prefer to be dazzled by art design and costumes than through suspenseful cinematic technique. If all it took to be a good movie was to...
Unlike most other films of its subgenre, this teen slasher pic actually has an original idea and thoughtful premise. It starts off with a class field trip to Paris that gets a boy named...
Without a doubt, Magnolia is my personal pick for best film of 1999, and if it weren’t or The Shawshank Redemption, I’d say it was the best film of the 1990s. No, it wasn’t nominated for an...
If you were to look for a classic case of a subplot that all but ruins a potentially great film, Nurse Betty could be viewed as prime example number one. Nurse Betty‘s main storyline revolves around...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 10, 2000 · Last modified February 28, 2019
The return of Roman Polanski, director of the classics Chinatown and Rosemary’s Baby, after six years proves to be hardly worth the wait. His latest offering, The Ninth Gate, tells the tale of Corso, an unscrupulous rare book...
Strangely, even with two powerhouse actors involved in a psychological chess-match thriller, Under Suspicion delivers in such a lackadaisical manner that it feels like a four person stage drama than a major motion picture. In this...
1990s / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published August 26, 2000 · Last modified February 28, 2019
Groundhog Day falls into the category of movies that get better with age, and also one that is especially enjoyable when viewing on the second or third time, which is fitting considering the plotline. In...
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