Road to Perdition (2002)
Following up an Academy Award winner isn’t an easy thing to do as a director, as the expectation level rises immensely. This is even more true when that Oscar-winner is also your first directorial...
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Love and Bullets (1979)
Without the ridiculous and typical Charles Bronson ending, Love and Bullets might have gotten a modest recommendation. Within this rather routine thriller, there are a number of things to like. For starters, the storyline removes...
Fulltime Killer (2001)
If you ever were looking for an example of a movie that fails because it is too stylized for its own good, I’d recommend Fulltime Killer as a prime choice. It’s a shame, too, because...
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
It’s a bit infuriating when schmaltzy cornball crap like Dead Poets Society gets a Best Picture nomination from the Academy and great movies like Glory and this gem from Woody Allen get left off the list. This one...
Nurse Betty (2000)
If you were to look for a classic case of a subplot that all but ruins a potentially great film, Nurse Betty could be viewed as prime example number one. Nurse Betty‘s main storyline revolves around...
The Big Hit (1998)
A crew of hitmen make the fatal blunder of kidnapping a young Chinese daughter (Chow, Sol Goode) of a wealthy businessman for ransom. One major problem: the girl is their boss’ goddaughter and he wants...
The Replacement Killers (1998)
Chow Yun-Fat plays John Lee, one of the world’s best hitmen. When a powerful Mob boss’ son gets killed by a police officer (Rooker), the boss (Tsang) wants the cop’s son dead and sends Lee...
Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
Based on the MTV television series, whereby two teenage metal-heads named Beavis and Butthead watch music videos and act like dumb-asses throughout their low-class neighborhood, Beavis and Butthead puts the duo on the road across the...
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
2 Days in the Valley will probably forever be compared to Pulp Fiction, and probably rightly so. They both have an ensemble cast whose characters initially don’t seem to have anything to do with each other,...
Desperado (1995)
The musician who was mistaken for a hitman in El Mariachi is back, this time as a hitman mistaken for a musician (Banderas, The Mask of Zorro). Avenging the murder of his girlfriend and the ruthless maiming...