Being John Malkovich “Hypnotic” and “Spellbinding” are words that are rarely used to accurately describe a movie in the comedy genre, but that can be the risk one runs by coming up with a concept that is so original, so bizarre, that when that concept finally sees the light of production and release as this […]
Believers Horror movies that specialize in the subjects of voodoo and occult worship are usually quite the mixed bag. For every success like Bela Lugosi’s White Zombie or Wes Craven’s Serpent And The Rainbow, there are scores of less successful or less noteworthy entries that more often than not invoke audiences into laughter rather than […]
Better Off Dead With a style that combines the anything goes comic madness of the ZAZ boys with the absurdist surrealism of Luis Bunuel, then mixed together in its own unique 80s blender, this cult classic is certainly one of the strangest achievements of its era. John Cusack (in a role he later disowned) stars […]
Beverly Hills Cop Racism in all its ugly glory is most likely something that will never be completely erased in this world, but a certain segment of comedians and comedy filmmakers (both black and white) at least at one time were making a concerted, successful effort in disarming the use of racial epitaphs and stereotypes […]
Beverly Hills Cop 2 The original Beverly Hills Cop in 1984 was both another notch in Eddie Murphy’s nearly unblemished streak of hit comedies in the 1980s as well as being a raw, edgy, daring, groundbreaking action comedy in its own right, redefining the standards for an unconventional action hero who also happens to be […]
Big Essentially the only true Masterpiece in the rather checkered career of director Penny Marshall, the film is boosted tremendously by a great heartfelt script and a dynamic performance by Tom Hanks as boy turned grown man Josh Baskin. Marshall appears to have no clue whatsoever how a 12-year old boy is supposed to act […]
Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure The concept or notion that popular music can and will one day result in the reinventing and restructuring of society to fulfill a more “positive” purpose is an idea that has been around since the advent of rock n roll itself. Certainly the songs and writings of Jim Morrison alluded […]
Billy Jack Originally released in 1971 and then pulled for two years during which a legal battle ensued over its distribution since it was considered too “radical” (at which point it became a box office phenomenom), this film at its genre core was an action drama, but with a message so potent that it has […]
Black Hawk Down Sometimes even a real life military operation that wound up being completely botched can still make for a compelling war movie in that said film uses the opportunity to focus its thunder and glory on the values that American soldiers share with their sworn dedication to each other under the worst possible […]