Heat (1995)
Neil McCauley (De Niro, Casino) is a professional criminal who has earned a living with big “scores”. After pulling off an armored car heist in which three guards are killed, he and his cohorts find they...
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Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
When the kids leave the arcade, the game characters come to life (in their own cyber world, anyway — akin to Toy Story). Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) is a ‘bad-guy’ video game character who is tired...
Major League (1989)
Major League is meant to make you laugh, pure and simple. Baseball is merely the platform for some funny hi-jinks, but these characters could have been plugged into any sport and it would have been...
Jarhead (2005)
It may be nearly wholly anecdotal material, but Jarhead is a war film not quite like the others, as this one shows almost exclusively what it’s like to be a soldier during those times when there...
Far from Heaven (2002)
In 1955, Douglas Sirk directed another of his sudsy romances, the now classic, ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. As of this writing, I haven’t seen this film, but have read that it provided much of the...
Random Hearts (1999)
A plane crashes on the way to Miami, killing everyone on board. The spouses of a DC Internal Affairs cop (Ford) and a New Hampshire congresswoman (Thomas) are among the victims. It turns out that they...
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
A computer genius (Bierko) creates a company to invent a virtual world where people can travel into, and which resembles 1937 America in detail. But while going into his virtual world, he discovers something important...
Mr. Baseball (1992)
Tom Selleck plays a veteran American big-leaguer past his prime who is traded to a team in Japan called the Dragons. He’s rebellious and conceited, having trouble adjusting to the Japanese style of baseball...