Snatched (2017)
Amy Schumer stars as Emily Middleton, who cajoles her divorced doting mother Linda (Hawn, Everyone Says I Love You) to accompany her on a non-refundable vacation to a posh resort in Ecuador she booked...
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the perhaps best of the Vacation sequels, and, somehow, the one that feels the most different from the others, probably because it doesn’t actually involve the Griswold family actually traveling anywhere. You...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much is one of the rare instances of a director remaking one of his own earlier works. This 1956 release is the better known of the two, with the original having been...
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Vacationing American friends, David (Naughton) and Jack (Dunne), stumble off the beaten trail into a pub called the “Slaughtered Lamb” only to find its inhabitants odd and the pentagram they have drawn on their wall...
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
I’ve heard that sometimes in comedy it’s not what you say but the way you say it that will inspire laughs. After watching Rush Hour 2, you’d think the makers took this philosophy as the...
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunrise is one of those hidden gems that, if you are in the mood for an insightful, romantic film, is well worth seeking out in your local video store. It tells a very simple...
Six Days, Seven Nights (1998)
An assistant magazine editor (Heche) and her boyfriend (Schwimmer) take a trip to a tropical island for six days and seven nights (hence the name of the film.) While there he proposes and she accepts, but...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Leslie Banks (Jamaica Inn, Henry V) and Edna Best (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Intermezzo) play a happily married couple who go on vacation in Switzerland when a colleague of theirs is assassinated. They...
Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
Muriel’s life in a small Australian town is dull and full of feelings of inadequacy, with nothing for her to do but listen to ABBA and hope one day she gets married to somebody…anybody!...