Velvet Goldmine (1998)
During the glam rock craze in England during the early 70s, one of the leaders of the music movement, Brian Slade, fakes his own death as a publicity stunt. The result backfires as the...
During the glam rock craze in England during the early 70s, one of the leaders of the music movement, Brian Slade, fakes his own death as a publicity stunt. The result backfires as the...
The historical drama of how Elizabeth I (Blanchett, An Ideal Husband) ascended to her throne. A Protestant bastard daughter in a religiously divided England is in line to succeed the ailing Mary Tudor (Kathy Burke, Anita and...
A famous violin is put up for auction in Montreal, and many interested parties are willing to spend a small fortune to get it for their own reasons. Through a series of flashbacks, the...
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...
1980s / Action / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published April 6, 1999 · Last modified October 8, 2020
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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