Wild Style (1983)
A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...
A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...
One of the more tired of cliches among the post-Apatow raunchy romantic comedies is the trope of the shlubby geek always seeming to have beautiful girlfriends, most of them completely unrealistic in the manner...
Jackie is a speculative historical drama that seeks to give us a peek into the hypothetical goings on of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the week following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on...
Comedian Amy Schumer gets her chance to shine on the big screen with Trainwreck, playing, appropriately, Amy, working by day as a journalist at a men’s lifestyle and celebrity gossip publication, but who drinks hard,...
After a nearly 10-year hiatus from feature films, Don Coscarelli, the director behind such cult B-movies as The Beastmaster, Phantasm, and Bubba Ho-Tep, helms this intentionally trippy horror comedy that is bound to become a cult classic...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 19, 2011 · Last modified February 7, 2019
Loosely based on the 1984 best-selling novel of the same name by John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick is a broadly dark, risqué comedy. It features a stellar cast, and Jack Nicholson (Prizzi’s Honor, The Postman Always...
Jason Bourne is back, and he’s still being chased by a faction of the CIA who have insidiously been trying to keep the details of his origin and missions under wraps for fear of...
by Vincent Leo · Published September 18, 1999 · Last modified March 22, 2019
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...
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