As Good As It Gets Romantic comedies often fail for a number of various reasons. For one, you have the two leads who are both designed to be pretty and perfect yet come across as being inherently unlikable simply because so much of their lives and personalities come off as being so movie star fake. […]
Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford With the glorious exception of Peckinpah’s Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, it’s almost never a good idea to introduce a modern political sensibility into a period western, but that’s exactly what we get here, as the legendary Confederate outlaw Jesse James is unwisely revisioned into […]
Austin Powers In Goldmember The Austin Powers Franchise more or less was always an exercise in comedy self indulgence for Mike Myers, one that saw him always work with a very tight knit regular ensemble cast (Seth Green, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Mindy Sterling and Verne Troyer as Mini Me starting in Part 2) and […]
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery Mike Myers has certainly been pegged as one of the most misunderstood comedy geniuses of the last 20 years. Known as a guy who specializes in somewhat juvenile, childish humor but yet is said to take it VERY seriously, Myers is one of the odder success stories to come […]
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me The original Austin Powers movie back in 1997 must have really seemed like a long shot for success in Hollywood’s eyes, with Wayne’s World star Mike Myers conjuring up a psychedelic era James Bond / spy spoof that even featured a number of faded stars from that era […]
Australia It seems so rare today that we get the super-budgeted, sumptuous epics of the David Lean / Cecil B. DeMille style that when one comes along finally audiences almost seem to take it for granted, as with this 2008 release by director Baz Luhrmann, which certainly paints a romanticized vision of its title country […]
Aviator No doubt about it: Howard Hughes was one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century, a man of wealth willing to piss away millions in order to do things that advanced both the making of motion pictures as well as the aviation industry (and opened the door for the widespread use of […]
Bachelor Party Before he became a multiple Oscar winner and the Jimmy Stewart of his generation, Tom Hanks was arguably the most underrated comedy star of the 1980s, a decade rife and deep with legendary talent in that particular genre. And he managed to account himself very well with funny and energetic performances in several […]
Back To School Rodney Dangerfield remains one of the oddest ducks in the history of American comedy. A guy whose schtick was developed after a lifetime of failure and depression over seemingly never being able to make it in show business, so that when he finally “made it” using a plethora of funny one liners […]