Self-betterment swill, to do with a cutthroat London bond trader (Russell Crowe, disconcertingly fey) who inherits from his uncle a rundown wine-growing estate in Provence, the happy stamping ground of his boyhood holidays, and who, returning there to sell the place, falls again under its spell -- and under that …
Really more a Maxie movie. Goofy, his dad, is along only for generation-gap embarrassment. And so, really more a John Hughes movie than a Disney. Except for the songs: too many of them. Directed by Kevin Lima.
Really more a Maxie movie. Goofy, his dad, is along only for generation-gap embarrassment. And so, really more a John Hughes movie than a Disney. Except for the songs: too many of them. Directed by Kevin Lima.
There’s something unkosher about Seann William Scott playing a character named “Doug Glatt.” He makes the best of the gladsome dolt who is recruited by a semi-pro hockey team after being spotted brawling in the stands. Slo-mo bloodletting backed by classical music frequently pulls this in the direction of “Jake …
The true story of Andrea Lytle Peet, a woman who races against time, a diagnosis of ALS, and an attempt at the impossible, to become the first person with ALS to complete a marathon in all 50 states. Directed by Miriam McSpadden and Brian Beckman.
A Richard Donner Film, but “a Steven Spielberg Presentation.” The second fellow wrote the original story and was one-third of the team of executive producers, and the finished product is chock-full of Spielbergian ingredients: skeletons, bugs, bats, boulders. There is even (in the duplicitous spirit of E.T.’s resurrection) a moment …
A Richard Donner Film, but “a Steven Spielberg Presentation.” The second fellow wrote the original story and was one-third of the team of executive producers, and the finished product is chock-full of Spielbergian ingredients: skeletons, bugs, bats, boulders. There is even (in the duplicitous spirit of E.T.’s resurrection) a moment …
Call it the Alien/Aliens effect. One alien on a single spaceship is a horror story, but a thousand aliens in a colony is almost necessarily an action pic. So while any single monster from R. L. Stine's series of young adult horror novels may have been enough to make kids …
Goosebumps made enough to warrant a sequel?! Be afraid. Be very afraid.
A tribute to that dying breed, the public, progressive intellectual. Hagiography isn't always this entertaining; but then, Vidal was an entertainer. Novelist, yes; essayist, certainly; TV personality, hell yes; even erstwhile politician and screenwriter (Suddenly, Last Summer). But always an entertainer, if only to mask the pain of an awful …
Flatteringly retouched portrait of zoologist and gorilla-rights activist Dian Fossey (a bit more warty in the last half-hour, as the movie begins to tabulate suspects for her unsolved murder). It's a "terrific role" for Sigourney Weaver (it gives her plenty of chance to stick out her chin and accentuate that …