Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...
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Side Effects (2013)
Reviewing a film like Side Effects poses a bit of a challenge, as revealing the aspect of it that will make or break it for most people will likely be the very thing that spoils that...
The Electric Horseman (1979)
Redford (All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor) and Fonda (Coming Home, Nine to Five) reunite for the third and final time starring together in a film, and the result is an amiable but...
Ordinary People (1980)
Nominated for six Oscars, and winner of four, Ordinary People is a small-scale drama that is almost as notorious for besting Raging Bull for Best Picture as it is for being a good film. Although it seems like...
The Weather Man (2005)
It’s Nicolas Cage doing what he does best, play a self-defeating loser, in The Weather Man, a bigger budget Hollywood release that feels like a small, quirky independent comedy. It’s a comedy that just barely...
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
A nicely structured depiction of true-life events, based on the book by Alan Dershowitz, Reversal of Fortune takes a fascinating look into the events of Claus von Bulow’s appeal to the case involving his comatose...
Mr. Jones (1993)
Richard Gere stars as Mr. Jones, a man who frequently lives his life on a constant high. Perhaps too high, as his often erratic behavior has been deemed dangerous enough to land him in...
About Schmidt (2002)
I’m beginning to think that if Alexander Payne were to write and direct a film about the process of bee pollination, it would still be one of the best films of the year. Of...
Hope Floats (1998)
A former beauty queen (Bullock, The Net) learns of her husband’s infidelity with her best friend on a talk show, and runs off to her small hometown in Texas to live with her mother after sinking...
The Hustler (1961)
The title character of the hustler refers to Fast Eddie Felson (Newman), a hotshot pool shark who is hustling his way across America from pool hall to pool hall. One day he stumbles across...