16 Blocks (2006)
16 Blocks is a passable time-waster thriller, reminiscent in its plot to the Eastwood flick, The Gauntlet, although darker in execution. Director Richard Donner, who made some of the better cop action flicks of the...
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*batteries not included (1987)
Steven Spielberg (producer of Innerspace, Back to the Future) served as the executive producer for *batteries not included, which is definitely inspired with the (at that time) Spielberg vision of friendly aliens beings, state-of-the-art special effects,...
Uptown Girls (2003)
In 1989, Boaz Yakin sees his first screenplay hit the big screen, in the misguided comic book adaptation, The Punisher. In a strange twist of fate, fourteen years later, Yakin is The Punisher! Uptown Girls is a film so horrendously inept...
Gangs of New York (2002)
Although Scorsese’s epic is full of symbolism and artistic flourishes which give the overall production an artificial feel, I suspect his vision of the America of yesteryear is perhaps a more accurate representation of...
City by the Sea (2002)
City by the Sea draws its inspiration from a 1997 Esquire magazine article by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, Mike McAlary. The article was entitled “Mark of a Murderer,” and detailed the tale of a real-life cop who begins...
The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Kevin Lomax (Reeves) is a young and highly successful defense attorney in a small Florida town. His impressive 64-0 record catches the eye of a New York law firm, perhaps the most powerful firm in...
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Scheming step-siblings take delight in controlling the social lives of various students at a New York prep school. Sebastian (Phillippe) plots to seduce every girl in school, while Kathryn (Gellar) delights in tormenting ex-boyfriends and new...
Runaway Bride (1999)
A New York columnist (Gere, The Jackal) hears a scoop about a woman (Roberts, Notting Hill) who ditched several husbands on the altar of her wedding. He writes about her without properly researching the stories and ends up...
Lake Placid (1999)
Some murky lake in the middle of Maine (which isn’t the real Lake Placid) is home to a 30-foot long gargantuan crocodile which is consuming much of the wildlife around it, including a human...
Clockers (1995)
A man is gunned down outside of a New York fast-food restaurant. The admitted killer is a hard-working and educated man (Phifer), who claims it was self-defense. The detective investigating the case (Keitel) doesn’t buy...