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 […]
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 […]
Caligula On its surface, this is BY FAR the most expensive, well-made pornographic film ever, with lavish costumes, spectacular sets, stunning cinematography, good music, and the presence of real big time stars like Peter O’Toole and Oscar winners Helen Mirren and John Gielgud. In truth though, this is probably the sickest, most perverse and fucked […]
Candyman The 1980s of course was The Golden Age Of The Franchise Horror Movie Villains, an era that produced horror films with sequels where the bad guy (usually of a supernatural stature) was always the main selling point to the extent that horror fans would come out almost to cheer on evil characters who were […]
Cannonball Run What’s wrong with comedies these days? It could be a lack of chemistry amongst their actors, or it could be scripts that are overwritten with certain sensibilities in mind that fall completely flat and settle for being merely somewhat witty instead of funny, or it could be that ALL of the talent involved […]