Brothers Grimm Make no mistake about it: Terry Gilliam is one of the reigning geniuses in the history of Hollywood, with a track record of one classic after another to show for it. However, in 2005 he managed to come up with undoubtedly his worst movie ever (that I’ve seen), an absolute mess of a […]
Bullet To The Head Sometimes the whole entire point of an action movie is not necessarily to reinvent the wheel but rather instead to remember what the regular components are and bring them up to speed in a fresh new environment. And for that job as director, few are better suited to the task than […]
Bullitt With the loosening of restrictions by the MPAA towards movie violence that had been put to grand use in 1967’s Bonnie And Clyde, Hollywood got the idea to apply that style to the cops and criminals genre, and that produced this 1968 film, which in many ways makes it one of the first true […]
Bulworth Warren Beatty was always one of the strangest of his kind in Hollywood history, a handsome ladies man movie star who at the same time was in many ways a totally eccentric freak. This 1998 release (the last major film he did before going into exile) tries (and nearly succeeds at times) to be […]
Burbs In 1989, Tom Hanks was nearing the end of his rather distinguished run as a movie comedy actor for the Oscar draped riches of more dramatic pursuits. Coming off having just gotten his first Oscar nomination for Big (pretty much a straight comedy transcended by the passion of Hanks’ acting in it), as the […]
Burn After Reading After their turgid (and grossly overrated) adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men, The Coen Brothers got back to doing what they do best with this 2008 effort, concocting an original, quirky story and making (in this case) a pretty decent film out of it, even as certain story elements […]
C.H.U.D. One of the more interesting failures of the 80s horror scene, this little opus telling the tale of homeless people living under New York City who mutate into cannibal mutants suffers greatly from the struggles that went on behind the camera: The script was rewritten several times to the point that stars John Heard, […]
Caddyshack When it comes to discussion of what are the absolute greatest comedies of all time, this 1980 release almost always falls into the mix, and it’s easy to see why: Toplined by four legendary comedy superstars along with a slew of offbeat supporting characters and all brought together by director Harold Ramis, a first […]
Cadillac Man It’s been said before and bears repeating: When the late Robin Williams was reined in by a good script and a smart director from firing away on all cylinders in a movie performance with constant manic adlibs and improv that would detract from both the story and whatever character he happened to be […]