Shut In (2016)
Feeling like one of those cheap domestic thrillers that came and went in the early 1990s, especially the plethora of Stephen King adaptations (the Maine setting is but one of several homages), this is...
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Rules Don’t Apply (2016)
Warren Beatty’s (Bulworth, Dick Tracy) first motion picture work in about fifteen years sees him a bit rusty with Rules Don’t Apply, an earnest but inconsistent attempt at a comedy with dramatic undertones that feels like...
Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It’s sci-fi, but not really, and it’s horror, but not really that either. It’s more like a supernatural drama/thriller that dabbles with the question of the afterlife,...
Chinese Zodiac (2012)
In what the world renown star has claimed will be his last action film (I guess Expendables 3 doesn’t count?), Jackie Chan returns to make the third film in the popular Armour of God series, (known in the...
Year One (2009)
It’s not easy to imagine Harold Ramis, the writer-director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, turning in a film this bad. I suppose one could see the diminishing returns in his last two films, The Ice Harvest and Analyze That, but Year...
The Ice Harvest (2005)
The Ice Harvest falls into the subcategory of a Coen Brothers film done without the Coens writing or directing. It seems to be a genre that has been picking up steam recently, as the very Fargo-esque The...
Bicentennial Man (1999)
The great science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, is among my favorite authors, and I have been surprised by the dearth of movie adaptations of his work, especially from someone as prolific, popular and influential. Bicentennial...
Benny & Joon (1993)
Perhaps this isn’t the most emotionally gripping romantic comedy ever created, but amid a sea of redundant genre flicks, at least BENNY & JOON tries to be different. It probably could be better if the resulting...
Zig Zag (2002)
David S. Goyer’s previous work includes screenwriting credits on such films as Blade (and Blade II), Dark City, The Crow: City of Angels, Death Warrant and Kickboxer 2. Not exactly work brimming with character development. Curiously, Goyer’s first time directing a film...
Ready to Rumble (2000)
They may be ready to rumble, but they sure weren’t ready to make a movie. A couple of septic tank cleaners are dismayed when their hero, WCW champ Jimmy the King (Platt), loses a...