Cutter’s Way (1981)
Originally released under the book’s title of Cutter and Bone, Cutter’s Way is a film that has a purposely unfocused way of telling a story, languishing in some scenes in lackadaisical fashion, and as such, it...
Author: Vincent Leo
The Lonely Guy (1984)
Adapted from Bruce Jay Friedman’s guide to help lonely men cope with their miserable existence with a sense of humor, The Lonely Guy is a sometimes uneven mixture of romance, screwball comedy, and self-help satire. ...
The Karate Kid (1984)
Independent film producer Jerry Weintraub was inspired to create *The Karate Kid* after watching a human-interest story about a small boy named Billy Sasner on a local Los Angeles TV news segment. In 1978,...
Continental Divide (1981)
John Belushi stars as Chicago Sun-Times star reporter Ernie Souchak, a household name in town for exposing corrupt politicians, whose latest assignment is to travel to the Rocky Mountains in order to do a...
The Island (2005)
An exciting science fiction premise (possibly lifted from the awful 1979 MST3k lampooned flick, Parts: The Clonus Horror) gets dumbed way down for mass consumption in The Island, the latest film that Michael Bay ruins by...
Bad News Bears (2005)
The 1976 classic sports film, The Bad News Bears, has been given an upgrade in 2005 — they removed the word “The” from the title! Outside of this, there is little fundamental difference between this...
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Walter Matthau plays aging alcoholic Morris Buttermaker, a one-time minor league prospect turned pool cleaner, with not much to show for his life except some empty beer cans. Morris gets the chance to make...
The Descent (2005)
In 2002, Neil Marshall wrote and directed a cult horror flick called Dog Soldiers, which featured a group of men alone in the Scottish wilderness meeting and eventually fighting for their lives with a frightening...
Silverado (1985)
Silverado is a throwback Western that doesn’t bother trying to reinvent the genre into a new form. It embraces all of the old clichés and formulas of the olden days, rehashing them with popular stars...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Although it’s not likely to replace the original movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in the minds and hearts of many viewers, the good news is that Tim Burton’s version of the Roald Dahl classic book...