Logical followup to, and inversion of, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids -- though inevitably less inspired. The two-year-old newcomer to the Szalinski clan gets in the way of a matter-enlarging experiment, and starts to grow by leaps and bounds. ("Your son's escaped, and he's over fifty feet tall!" "That's impossible. …
Fun for any age, except perhaps the teen one excessively concerned to be "with it." It may be that the accidental reduction of four children to the size of "boogers," and the inadvertent depositing of them in a plastic trash bag in the backyard, could be seen by the cultured …
Writer and director Andrew Bergman (So Fine, The Freshman) will go a long way for a gag -- and a planeload of skydiving Elvis impersonators en route to a convention of their brethren in Las Vegas may fairly be described as "far-out." But Bergman can be oddly plodding about getting …
Leonard Kastle's one and only foray into feature films, a memorable one. Based on a true serial-murder case concerning an oddly matched man and woman (physically, a Jack and Mrs. Sprat) who preyed on elderly women and their bank accounts, it's related with a chilling matter-of-factness, but with sufficient dwelling …
The Intermezzo musical triangle relocated in country-western country, and making a prized sex object out of Willie Nelson, that easy alliance between the redneck and the hippie, whose physical attributes might have been thought to make him a closer cousin to Gabby Hayes than to Leslie Howard. The flimsy narrative …
Starring two members of boyband Mirror.
The sure sense of emphasis, never heavy, never lingering too long, is just what's wanted with the picaresque plotline, charting the odyssey to Nashville of a country singer, his teenage nephew, and a couple of tag-alongs. Nothing in this fluid and flexible movie is overweighted: not the Depression period and …
Notwithstanding the move uptown to Harlem, this covers familiar territory: the underworld turf wars of the Great Depression. It covers it at great length and not at great speed, and yet it can find no time to elaborate on the distinguishing characteristics of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson as a thinker, a …
A fractured fairy tale, the Red Riding Hood tale, told in a fractured narrative after the fashion of stuff like Pulp Fiction, Go, Snatch, Sin City, with a dash of Rashomon, a whisper of Citizen Kane. The intersections of four narrative lines, from four differing points of view, are fun …
The teen Red Riding Hood and the Wolf must join forces to find the missing Hansel and Gretel, in a PG-rated animation from the Weinstein Co. Voices include Glenn Close, Joan Cusack, Martin Short, Hayden Panettiere, Andy Dick, Cheech and Chong.
Extremely long (at almost three hours) basketball documentary, made to seem longer by the unfocussed video-transfer image. Generating plenty of sociological and human interest, if not cinematic, it tracks the high-school careers of two inner-city Chicago prospects, Arthur Agee and William Gates, and it runs into inherent drama ("With six …
Hal Needham's salute to Hollywood stuntmen is in the Howard Hawks mode of This Special Breed male camaraderie movies. Needham, a celebrated stuntman and stunt coordinator himself, knows what he's talking about, and he seems to be drawing from a fairly deep well of feelings. Even his glib ridicule of …