Hustlers (2019)
Hustlers is a somewhat different take on the traditional crime film, ostensibly exploitative and glossy on the surface, but with some surprising themes to ponder underneath. This one is inspired by the real-life story,...
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A Good Woman (2004)
A loose interpretation of the Oscar Wilde play, “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, A Good Woman changes the time period to the 1930s and the setting to the Amalfi coast of Italy, as well as incorporating quotes from...
Failure to Launch (2006)
Here’s a movie title that practically writes my review for me. Interminably silly, Failure to Launch is a go-with-the-flow kind of comedy that has its share of laughs and smart ideas, and yet, sometimes it...
Private Lessons (1981)
Titillating stuff for its time, Private Lessons was but one of many films to come out in the early 80s about teenage boys that manage to score with older women willing to show them the act...
Novocaine (2001)
After his memorable turn in Little Shop of Horrors playing a dentist, Steve Martin plays another one in Novocaine, an oddly interesting yet ultimately unsatisfying comic-thriller. While the Hitchcockian plot and meandering storyline are too familiar...
Heartbreakers (2001)
I seem to remember having seen HEARTBREAKERS before…I think it was called DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS back then though. Of course, it’s a little different here since the main con artists are female, and also...
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...
The Grifters (1990)
An older woman (Huston, Crimes and Misdemeanors) works for a powerful bookie, a younger woman (Bening, The American President) seduces her way through life, while a young man (Cusack, Say Anything) uses sleight of hand to nickel and dime a...