Hard Rain (1998)
Hard Rain and Chain Reaction. What do these two movies have in common? Answer: they both have Morgan Freeman (Kiss the Girls, The Shawshank Redemption) as the bad guy, and star an annoying, young, lackluster protagonist. Note...
Author: Vincent Leo
They Live (1988)
They Live is a laid-back sci-fi actioner starring ex-pro wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as John Nada (he’s not called any name in the movie), a drifter who lands a temp job at a construction...
Caddyshack (1980)
Caddyshack marks the first in Harold Ramis’ (Groundhog Day, Analyze This) now-distinguished directorial career, and you have to give him credit — he knows what’s funny. This is one hilarious flick that’s a certified classic for...
The Mod Squad (1999)
Three teenage hoodlums get recruited by a cop to work undercover to bust a drug ring which may involve fellow police officers. When the recruiter gets killed himself, they take it upon themselves to...
With Honors (1994)
With Honors is a comedy dealing with a Harvard law student (Fraser, The Scout) whose academic career seems bleak when his computer crashes, deleting his hard drive, and along with it, his thesis that he had spent...
Very Bad Things (1999)
Five friends go to Vegas for a bachelor party and one of them ends up accidentally killing a prostitute, and later a security guard who stumbles on the body. They decide to cover it...
Forces of Nature (1999)
For those who can’t get enough of that Out-of-Towners formula who have already seen Planes Trains and Automobiles, don’t worry. Forces of Nature is here to sate your appetite for madcap mayhem by hooking up two seemingly inseparable...
Stargate (1994)
Around 1978, Roland Emmerich, a film school student in Munich, screened a documentary about who built the Great Pyramids of Giza and why. The documentary incorporated ideas from Erich von Daniken’s book, “Chariots of...
Permanent Midnight (1998)
An adaptation of Jerry Stahl’s autobiography, a Hollywood TV writer whose life comes crashing down after becoming addicted to heroin. A very impressive dramatic debut for comedian Stiller, and a well-crafted and directed film...
Dead Calm (1989)
Orson Welles developed the project in the 1960s but never completed it. George Miller and Terry Hayes company, Kennedy-Miller, bought the rights out from Welles’ estate. Shot near Hamilton Island. Australia. Dead Calm is a...