The Blues Brothers (1980)
The Blues Brothers ranks among my favorite films of all time — not the best, just a favorite. With inspiration that never remotely comes close to ceasing, John Landis’ wildly over-budget film is more an experience...
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Rambo: First Blood Part II is one of those films that doesn’t really have much going for it these days save for the social significance for the time in which it was released, where...
Last Embrace (1979)
Twelve years he would put his type of influential thriller on the map in The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme made an homage to the master of the contemporary thriller himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Last Embrace may...
Melvin and Howard (1980)
There are a few acclaimed films that seem very fresh and original at the time, but over time, they are forgotten by most except the people who championed them because they really weren’t as...
Steel (1997)
Unintentional humor abounds, in this very poor attempt at trying to start up another franchise superhero (based on an actual DC Comics character spun off of Superman) with Shaquille O’Neal in the lead role. ...
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Here’s a film that’s grown on me over the years. My initial review of this film knocked it for being lesser in terms of humor than its two sequels, but in retrospect, much of...
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Clarice Starling (Foster, Foxes) is an FBI agent-in-training who is sent for the near impossible task of gaining the aid of a dangerous psychopath, Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins, The Bounty), in catching a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill...
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
A San Francisco poet meets an owner of a Meats of the World deli, all the while falling more and more in love with her but also beginning to suspect more and more that...