Shattered (1991)
Tom Berenger (Major League, Butch & Sundance) plays a rich San Francisco businessman named Tom Merrick, recently involved in a terrible car accident that sees him need major face and body reconstruction in order to...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 1, 2007 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Tom Berenger (Major League, Butch & Sundance) plays a rich San Francisco businessman named Tom Merrick, recently involved in a terrible car accident that sees him need major face and body reconstruction in order to...
1990s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published July 18, 2007 · Last modified August 26, 2019
Bob Hoskins plays bigoted cop Jack Moony, who spends much of his time becoming irate, eating the worst foods, chain-smoking, and swilling in booze. It eventually leads to a stroke. Moony is lucky enough...
1990s / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 24, 2007 · Last modified November 3, 2021
Since debuting in the video game “Donkey Kong” in 1981, Mario had become a celebrity, emblazoned on lunch boxes, pajamas, underwear, bedsheets, and starring in a couple of kids’ TV shows. Polls proclaimed Mario...
1980s / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published December 20, 2006 · Last modified January 16, 2019
This film is set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, where part of the city is the fictional Toontown, where all of the famous (and not so famous) cartoon characters (called “Toons”) reside. Bob...
2000s / Action / Comedy / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published February 14, 2005 · Last modified May 16, 2019
$100,000,000 The figure you see above is what New Line Cinema reportedly paid to make this horrendously inept piece of garbage posing as family entertainment. Some sources have that figure at about $75 million,...
If you are someone who absolutely never gets tired of hearing the tale of Cinderella in all its various forms, perhaps Maid in Manhattan will be worthwhile for you. However, anyone looking for a moving...
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