The adventures of Greg continue. Starring Zachary Gordon as Greg.
After an incident involving wimpy kid Greg (Jason Drucker) and a dirty diaper goes viral, the red-faced lad takes to the road in the backseat of his parents’ car in this family-friendly alternative to National Lampoon’s Vacation. Director Thor Freudenthal was the first to adapt one of Jeff Kinney’s tales …
Polanski's lickerish private joke about a hippie hitchhiker (someone has described her as a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Little Annie Fanny, though she favors the latter) who stumbles from a highway rape into a secluded Italian villa and into the mixed-nuts company of a bedridden patriarch, a syphilitic …
George A. Romero, passing off Ontario as his Pennsylvania habitat, raises more zombies for the purpose of running them further into the ground. The tetralogy hereby becomes a pentalogy. The borrowed Blair Witch gimmick of filmmaking students recording the events on shaky camcorders is more expedient than plausible; and the …
Andrew Dice Clay in concert: one of the soon-forgotten controversies of 1990. Some thought that his Brooklyn-bred, leather-jacketed, pompadour-coiffed, filthy-mouthed persona is vile enough to be spoken of in terms of an organized boycott. Others, or at least he himself, thought the vileness is all right because it's just a …
Warren Beatty had long contemplated playing the comic-strip cop (under assorted directors), but only after a screen version of Batman had pulled in a zillion dollars, give or take, did he at last discover the wisdom, the ingenuity, the genius, the vision, to go ahead on the project, and with …
Sacha Baron Cohen plays “Admiral-General” Aladeen, the brutal dictator of a fictional Middle Eastern country who finds himself stranded in Manhattan after a case of mistaken identity. From the outset, much of the humor relies on sequences of shtick that outlast their wit. Behind the guise of political satire, the …
Did you hear about Did You Hear about the Morgans?? Well, it’s not as bad as you may have heard. The premise of a splitsville Manhattan couple whisked away together to wild, wild Wyoming in the witness protection program is no worse than that of many a screwball comedy of …
It is now (ahem) four decades since James Bond made his debut on screen, never mind another decade since his debut on the page: he must, as a film entity alone, be into his seventies by now. However you calculate it, he can ill afford to spend fourteen months in …
Tallulah Bankhead's final feature film performance: a religious fanatic obsessed with her dead son and fixated on his unlucky fiancé. Sic transit gloria mundi. Directed by Silvio Narizzano.
Twelve superbly drilled, highly financed, and heavily armed international terrorists find themselves overmatched against a vacationing New York cop in bare feet. The action, set almost entirely inside an L.A. skyscraper, is a pyrotechnical marvel. But the overriding marvel is how action so marvelous has come to seem, in the …
"How could the same shit happen to the same guy twice?" marvels Det. John McClane (now of the LAPD). Clearly the filmmakers do not lack self-awareness. If anything, the shit is a bit deeper this time, in that the single-handedness of McClane's heroics makes less sense at a Major Metropolitan …