Typical time-travel brain-twister, with a mere ham radio serving as time machine, enabling a thirty-something New York cop to converse with his late father, both of them speaking into the same microphone in the same house in Queens over a distance of three decades: "We gotta be talkin' off the …
In basic outline a conventional thriller about drug dealings in Brooklyn, but renovated almost to a condition of like-new. Screenwriter Boaz Yakin (of Clint Eastwood's The Rookie), here making his directorial debut, has bright ideas about virtually everything, some of them studied or showoffy, but none of them sloppy or …
Prior to this, “fresh and dipped” meant a preference for hand-packed ice cream cones. Any fashion doc that comes out of the gate championing Little Richard as the architect of hip hop habiliment and an “iconic symbol of freedom” can’t be all bad. But without so much as a hint …
Damp, cold, dismal romance, skidding along on a layer of musical slush. Molly Ringwald is miscast as the mesmerizing and enigmatic country girl, and Andrew McCarthy is miscast as -- well, as anything human and natural, but in this case as an amorously obsessed engineering student. Adapted by Larry Ketron …
Rose Larusso (Emily Bader) is an inquisitive young girl in late 1980s Staten Island who discovers her father is an emerging mafia kingpin. Rose’s growing desire to break free from the path set before her soon threatens her existence and alienates her from her closest allies: her mother Francine, her …
Latter-day screwball comedy about an NYU film student (not much gotten from that background, apart from a snickeringly satirized professor) who gets involved in a Mob-operated Gourmet Club, boasting a menu of endangered species for a minimum of $200,000 a plate. Although not well paced or light afoot, it's truly …
A typical Midwestern 18-year-old freshman at a large state university eager to delve the college party life, instead he discovers that school is not the beer-driven, sexual fantasy of his imagination. Determined to do anything to obtain the girl of his dreams (a gorgeous but reluctant sorority girl), he decides …
A note at the end informs us that near the end of his life — and near the onset of World War II — pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was visited by a young Oxford don in his London home. Well, home away from home: he still pines for his beloved …
Belated contribution to Fridamania. The same-named 1984 film by Paul Leduc, while timelier, was too low-profile to discourage additional spotlight-seekers and altar-worshippers. So now we have a new chiselled Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), an almost Manneristically elongated one, to grace the cover of the paperback reprint of Hayden Herrera's definitive …
Belated contribution to Fridamania. The same-named 1984 film by Paul Leduc, while timelier, was too low-profile to discourage additional spotlight-seekers and altar-worshippers. So now we have a new chiselled Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), an almost Manneristically elongated one, to grace the cover of the paperback reprint of Hayden Herrera's definitive …
Pedantic pigskin story, based on the well-regarded nonfiction book by H.G. Bissinger, set in football-mad West Texas: the pressures, the twisted passions, the bitter pills, the life lessons. Billy Bob Thornton, who appears to take more than just the overbite from G.D. Spradlin in North Dallas Forty, is the beleaguered …
Teens: don't have sex.