Pink Panther Of all the memorable characters in the history of movie comedy, few are as revered as one Inspector Jacques Clouseau as played by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther films that were directed by Blake Edwards. These films featured Sellers at his improvisational best, mixing physical humor with garbled dialogue in a mock […]
Pink Panther Strikes Again The relationship between Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau and Herbert Lom’s Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus is really and truly unlike any in the history of cinema: A famous, respected French police detective (who is thought of by most people to be a genius) and the man who knows him best, his boss […]
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End After all the negative talk I’ve heard about this, I must say I came out of this pretty surprised and a little overwhelmed. This film is not nearly as bad as people say and is actually an improvement over the occasional slowness of Dead Man’s Chest. Yes, it […]
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl As a film phenomenom, pirate movies were originally popular back in the 30s and 40s, with classic oldschool swashbucklers like Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power making the genre completely their own, and then it would see a brief revival in the late 70s and early […]
Plan 9 From Outer Space Bad movies can best be described as an acquired taste, productions that are so awful in nearly every aspect (acting, writing, directing, etc.) that they achieve a kind of beyond enjoyable, surrealistic effect. While the history of cinema is filled with horrible movies in all genres (most of which are […]
Planet Terror Considered by most to be the more over the top half of Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez’s effort sadly still doesn’t live up to the more subtle and effective entry by Tarantino: Plot holes and lack of exposition clog up the film nearly from the beginning, starting with the confusing opening shootout at a military […]
Platoon Among movies about the Vietnam War, there are four that stand out in cinema history as being the absolute best, not just about Nam, but as war movies in general, since obviously THAT war made for the most dramatic, cinematic content, and given the glut of lame, boring, whiny, preachy, and overly political films […]
The Player An unconventional yet brilliant satire of the vapid shallowness that embodies Hollywood’s development process, Robert Altman crafts a unique piece of entertainment that showcases Tim Robbins in perhaps his best role ever. Starting with the fourth wall breaking clapperboard into an awe-inspiring tracking shot around the studio (while the Fred Ward character comments […]
Pleasantville Taking its cue from the bland, boring whitebread sitcoms of the 50s such as Leave It To Beaver, Father Knows Best, and Ozzie And Harriet, the fictional sitcom within the movie basically has its formula subverted when two modern day teens (Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspon) find themselves magically transported into this world only […]