Working Girl (1988)
It’s the little touches that makes an ordinary story better, and Working Girl‘s director Mike Nichols provides plenty of them. Subtle character touches, a few asides, and several moments of realistic drama goes a long...
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Considering the track record to date between producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay, I was a bit leery about the prospects of sitting through three hours of over-produced, directorial masturbation that has been...
State and Main (2000)
Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he’s certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his...
Outside Providence (1999)
Those expecting the typical gross-out Farrelly brothers fare may be a bit mystified by this one. To those like me who can’t stand those films simply because they are little more than juvenile sick-fests, Outside...
Malice (1993)
Tracy (Kidman) and her college professor, Andy (Pullman), fall in love and get married, but have been unsuccessful in having children. Andy runs into a doctor (Baldwin) who is from the same school he...
Mercury Rising (1998)
An FBI agent (Willis) uncovers a plot to kill a nine-year-old autistic boy (Hughes) after he the boy cracks a 2 billion dollar government code. Willis adds another stinker into his already impressive arsenal of misfires...
Beetlejuice (1988)
The idea for Beetlejuice developed when Michael McDowell, a horror novelist and occasional television writer for “Tales from the Darkside”, sold the rights to some of his Southern Gothic novels to a former studio...
The Edge (1997)
A billionaire (Hopkins, Nixon) flies his supermodel wife (Macpherson, Batman & Robin) up to Alaska for a fashion shoot. While there the billionaire’s plane crashes in the middle of the deserted wilderness, leaving only the billionaire and the...
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The best submarine commander in the Soviet Union (Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) now leads the maiden voyage of the Red October, a spiffy new nuclear submarine capable of going undetected by sonar, to...