Rodney Dangerfield, with a fluffier and less funny hairdo, is "the world's oldest living freshman" and "the walking epitome of the decline of modern education" -- the nouveau riche big-wig of Tall and Fat Clothing Stores, who buys his way into college with a considerable donation, continues to throw around …
Isn't the world ready for the return of Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello? Hasn't the world of movies, that is, skidded far enough downhill that the old beach-ball epics might seem almost average -- or slightly above? The old ones, maybe. This new one, however, has skidded downhill right along …
The task of tailoring the time-travel theme to the teenage market has led to, besides such concrete accessories as skateboards and electric guitars, an inordinate dwelling on anachronisms, with a contemporary teenager plunged (much like an addict of TV's Happy Days, only deeper) into the Fifties. It's as though the …
The task of tailoring the time-travel theme to the teenage market has led to, besides such concrete accessories as skateboards and electric guitars, an inordinate dwelling on anachronisms, with a contemporary teenager plunged (much like an addict of TV's Happy Days, only deeper) into the Fifties. It's as though the …
A loud, ugly, ungodly mess. It starts out with what's already the biggest pill to swallow in a time-travel adventure, and proceeds to let this snowball into a burden of disbelief such as could not be suspended by wire cables. Namely: the manufacture of a mobile time machine which, by …
A loud, ugly, ungodly mess. It starts out with what's already the biggest pill to swallow in a time-travel adventure, and proceeds to let this snowball into a burden of disbelief such as could not be suspended by wire cables. Namely: the manufacture of a mobile time machine which, by …
Anyone who wasn't lost, in one sense or another, in Part II will have plenty more opportunity here: plenty more of that formula of obviousness and overstatement blended with in-jokes and incoherence. This time, science fiction collides with the Western (as our aging teenager travels to 1885 in his Nikes), …
Jennifer Lopez, artificially inseminated and pregnant with twins before she meets Mr. Right, stands out as a pearl among pebbles. Her hair and makeup (in the part of a pet-shop proprietor) are a wonder to behold, and are indeed beheld with tunnel vision and starry eyes by director Alan Poul …
In this latest domed-IMAX release, humans peaceably coexist with critters commonly found in the garden.
What has mystery, romance, flying saucers, men on horseback, smiles, chills, folklore to spare, horizontal wipes, and just enough splatter to prevent the Comic-Conners in the audience from texting? Answer: this all-encompassing, genre-bending satire from Brazil that examines just what a government can do to a complacent townsfolk who refuse …
Zachary Horwitz's desperate attempt to become a movie star led him down a path of deception and fraud, seduced by the allure of fame and wealth. Starring Zach Avery.
Hollywood stands in front of a mirror, and is not displeased. A power-hungry producer (Kirk Douglas) does dirt in turn to a director (Barry Sullivan), an actress (Lana Turner), and a writer (Dick Powell). The three-part narrative structure -- stop and restart, stop and restart -- makes the movie seem …
A closely knit Asian American family living in a rural Michigan community finds that they must fight to keep their American dream alive. As owners of a local prominent restaurant, they reckon with a global pandemic, racial tensions, and generational scars from Cambodia’s “killing fields.” Directed by David Siev, starring …