Draft Day (2014)
Draft Day is a dramatic look at the behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing that goes on among the general managers of all of the teams involved in the National Football League during the annual NFL Draft...
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
I should preface this review by stating that I opted to see the 2D version of The Amazing Spider-Man rather than the 3D (or 3D IMAX). It is possible that I might be less impressed with...
Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man starts off in Los Angeles’s near future of 1996, where crime has run rampant. It takes someone ruthless to catch ruthless criminals, and that man is super-cop John Spartan (Stallone, Rocky V), whose take-no-prisoners...
Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
When a screwball spoof is successful, it is stupid in an intelligent kind of way. Loaded Weapon 1 is just plain stupid. While a few of the quips and sight gags might elicit a mild chuckle...
The Sandlot (1993)
The Sandlot is a favorite movie for some, but I won’t count myself among them. Those who enjoy the film probably do so for all of the reasons I don’t — it’s childish, predictable, unrealistic, poorly...
Double Whammy (2001)
It’s hard to believe that a movie as poor as Double Whammy would ever be made by such a credible filmmaker like Tom DiCillo, yet here it is, a sloppy piece of head-scratching ineptitude for...
The MatchMaker (1997)
The MatchMaker is a very by-the-numbers rom-com (despite the tagline of it being a romantic comedy for people who don’t like them) that is only modestly successful for genre fans because it embraces the tried-and-true...
True Crime (1999)
An Oakland journalist, alcoholic and womanizer (Eastwood), is given the job to write a human interest story about a man who is slated to be executed that evening (Washington). The label on the reporter...
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Wealthy billionaire playboy Thomas Crown (Brosnan, Tomorrow Never Dies) devises a plan whereby he steals a Monet painting values at over $100 million. An insurance agent (Russo, Lethal Weapon 4) would much rather get the painting back rather...
Small Soldiers (1998)
The son of a small toy store owner (Smith) wants to make his father (Dunn) a profit while he’s away so he decides to stock some new toys early. These new toys are action figures which...