Addams Family One can only speculate as to what constituted the full on āfamily friendlyā appeal of The Addams Family Franchise, in essence a ghoulish, offbeat clan first created in a comic strip by its namesake author Charles Addams whose very lifeblood in existing was by living in a gothic, contrarian vein where things that […]
Adventures In Babysitting Elisabeth Shue had literally burst onto the scene and into the consciousness of nearly every American male with her role in the vastly overrated āguy filmā The Karate Kid, her nearly overwhelming presence of sweet, feminine, nice girl aurora successfully cancelling out Ralph Macchioās overearnest bad acting in the lead role (and […]
Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension When can an original film be almost TOO original for its own good?Ā Perhaps doing so can guarantee that film the status of being a ācult classicā from the getgo even if more normal minded viewers might take it all in and not really be sure what […]
Adventures Of Ford Fairlane Before he was brought down by the liberal, PC establishment that condemned him and his career for telling dirty jokes, Andrew Dice Clay (in the absolute prime of his career) got his chance to shine in his only major starring vehicle, a hilarious comedy that may be the best example of […]
Aeon Flux The irony of much of science fiction is the blatent tendency to directly copy ideas from other (usually lesser known) sources and to paste them into their own stories with nary a hint of credit or gratitude. One popular āsourceā so to speak was the early 90s animated series Aeon Flux, from which […]
After Hours Although widely considered one of the “lesser” Scorsese movies due to its low budget and independent roots, this is actually a quite good and masterfully shot descent into the darkness that is NYC’s Soho district. The main drawbacks start with the Griffin Dunne character though: He is so obviously an unlikable weasel that […]
After The Sunset What tries to be a quirky, funny, jewel heist flick is nearly undone by numerous plot holes but is still elevated by a couple of performances.Ā Brosnan plays a ultra-successful jewel thief who in the filmās opening makes his āretirement scoreā in the midst of an LA Lakers game by ripping off […]
Air Force One The 1990s saw Hollywood carry on an inexplicably sickening love affair with then President Bill Clinton, producing a near record number of films where a President type character would almost always be portrayed in a sometimes over the top positive light all while the real Clinton was carrying on with interns and […]