The Nutty Professor (1996)
One time unflappable box-office draw Eddie Murphy takes his first step to resurrecting his floundering film career with this tour de force in which he plays a 400-lb. chemistry professor named Sherman Klump, who...
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Chain Reaction (1996)
Keanu Reeves (A Walk in the Clouds, Speed) stars as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on an experiment to rid the world of petroleum products and introduce hydrogen-based power into the world through an ever...
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Tony Wendice is a former tennis star whose wealthy wife is having an affair with an old friend of theirs. He plans on murdering her and getting her insurance money, and to facilitate shifting...
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Frankenstein represents a dilemma for me as a reviewer. I recognize the fact that many people consider it one of the best comedies ever made. I suppose if I had watched it as a...
Clueless (1995)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High director Amy Heckerling takes another crack at teenage life over ten years later in this snappy comedy centering around Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and her observations of high school life in...
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
A professional mafia hit man (Nicholson, The Postman Always Rings Twice) falls for an equally tenacious hit woman (Turner, Romancing the Stone), but past crimes against his family put her in a precarious standing. Prizzi’s Honor is...
Black Mask (1996)
After all but one of a team of professional assassins known as Squad 701 are killed off by the government, the survivor known as Black Mask (Jet Li, The Legend II) hides out and takes a...
Big (1988)
A boy with low self-esteem (Moscow, Just Married) makes a wish with a fortune teller vending machine at an amusement park, wishing he were “big”. Upon waking the following morning, the boy discovers he now has...
El Mariachi (1992)
A roving mariachi (Gallardo, Grindhouse) in search of work hops from bar to bar in a small Mexican town, carrying his guitar case along with him. Problems arise when a hitman (Martinez) arrives in town, and...
The Hustler (1961)
The title character of the hustler refers to Fast Eddie Felson (Newman), a hotshot pool shark who is hustling his way across America from pool hall to pool hall. One day he stumbles across...