Adrift (2006) | aka Open Water 2
Three couples and a baby go out for a weekend cruise on a luxurious yacht but make the mistake of all getting into the ocean without lowering the ladder that allows them the get...
Category: Drama
Consenting Adults (1992)
Richard Parker (Kline) is a composer of advertising jingles with a mountain of debts and a staleness in a marriage to his wife, Priscilla (Mastrantonio). His new neighbor is a friendly but impulsive guy named...
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Sofia Coppola writes and directs this very revisionist piece on one of France’s most famous of queens, Marie-Antoinette. Interestingly, for such a popular historical figure, there is a dearth of biographical films about her life...
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Like watching a show about fashion on television or flipping through the pages of a fashion magazine, there is a sense (for some people) of fun, frivolity, and envy at watching the glitz, glamour,...
A Good Woman (2004)
A loose interpretation of the Oscar Wilde play, “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, A Good Woman changes the time period to the 1930s and the setting to the Amalfi coast of Italy, as well as incorporating quotes from...
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Based on the 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto tells the strange odyssey of Irish transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy), abandoned as a baby to an a life of foster care by his mother,...
Reality Bites (1994)
Designed to have an underlying commentary about what it’s like to be 20-something in the mid-1990s, Reality Bites does contain a few insights, but not nearly enough to be able to lay its claim as...
Stick (1985)
Definition of “stick”: long, wooden; can be used to hit you over the head repeatedly without mercy. Review of Burt Reynolds’ Stick: see the definition above. Burt Reynolds gets in the director’s chair for his...
Last Holiday (2006)
Last Holiday remakes the 1950 classic in typically contrived Hollywood fashion, ratcheting up the cuteness factor, while plausibility and any sense of subtlety are largely absent for the duration. What it does have is...
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)
Shia LaBeouf stars in this solid Walt Disney production, which represents one of their finest in terms of live-action films in recent memory. The technical aspects of the film are top-notch across the board,...