Not for nothing does the film's poster evoke the classic VHS covers of yore. Director Don Coscarelli expertly blends the horror and comedy of his earlier work (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-Tep) in a flimsy, sprawling story featuring that great '80s standby, the portal to another dimension. (And whaddya know; that dimension …
“My biggest fear,” says 17 term U.S. Representative and civil rights warrior John Lewis “is one day we may wake up and our democracy is gone.” Dawn Porter’s biodoc stands as a sad reminder that 65 years since its inception and America is still fighting a Civil Rights movement. (The …
When documentarian Julien Faraut finds an enormous trove of film footage taken of hotheaded tennis great John McEnroe at the French Open — footage shot for a series of innovative instructional films that examined the play of particular stars — he’s sure he’s got something. But what? An exploration of …
The cut-throat college recruitment of a star high-school quarterback (the undersized Anthony Michael Hall) is made-to-order for satire: an opportunity to show humanity at its worst, on an occasion when it matters little. But the all-thumbs moviemakers are nobody to be pointing any fingers. With Paul Gleason, Robert Downey, Jr., …
Documentary based on the book written by Greg Laurie about Johnny Cash's Christian faith and how it grew stronger throughout his life.
The amiable Rowan Atkinson plays the Inspector Clouseau of Her Majesty's Secret Service, leaving the funny French accent to the megalomaniacal villain (John Malkovich, not so frightfully funny after all; not Peter Sellersishly). The hero has his humble origins in an ad campaign for a credit card, and there is …
Rowan Atkinson, the pipsqueak packet of comical nonsense, returns as Johnny, Britain’s Clouseau (Clueless?) in a James Bond mode. It’s silly beyond silly, but the deft star knows how to do sight gags, blithely uses spy devices such as the “voice-change travel lozenge,” and enunciates such funny lines as “Ambrose, …
Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker. Rowan Atkinson stars.
Walter Hill has tended to be most inspired and inspiring when prowling the boundaries of film genres, knocking down a section of fence, burrowing an underground tunnel between them, establishing fuzzy communication by means of two tin cans and a string. In Johnny Handsome, a fable about a small-time criminal …
Fitter Hu Jianlin gets promoted during layoffs, but his rural roots clash with corporate culture. Can he survive office politics and uncover the truth? Directed by Dong Run-Nian, starring Da Peng, Bai Ke, and Sabrina Zhuang Da-Fei.
So this is "cyberpunk," duly authenticated with a script by the Bard of the genre, William Gibson. To the layman, it may just look like your basic race-against-the-clock and run-from-the-mob ("Shit, it's the yakuza!"), augmented, not to say enhanced (to fall into the prevailing computerese), more truthfully overloaded, with arbitrary …
Nonsense to do with a wide-eyed Harry Langdon-like bus driver who, with the addition of a mole on his cheek and a toothpick in his mouth, is a dead ringer for a sequestered Mafioso. Roberto Benigni's gifts for physical comedy are abundant enough to keep the idea alive for the …
What starts as a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale tapers off into a mere shaggy-dog story about a rock-star wannabe (and Ricky Nelson idolator) who sports a pompadour combed straight up from his forehead, adding half a foot to his height. It's quite well acted without being in the least believable (Brad …
Director Nick (son of John) Cassavetes kicks around health-care issues and medical ethics in addition to the Little Man hero, whose last name is actually Archibald and not Public: a devoted family man, a regular churchgoer, a hard worker, although the factory has started farming out jobs to Mexico and …