Bram Stoker’s Dracula Coppola’s only true foray into the horror genre is a masterpiece and will stand the test of time as the definitive telling of the story. On the techncal side, everything, directing, cinematography, costumes, set design, FX, makeup, sound, is top of the line and as perfect as can be. Coppola manages to […]
Breakdown One of the most inherent and irrational fears of many people (especially Northern liberals) is that of the presumably All American yet still ominously looming in the backwoods Southern redneck, at times an unfair stereotype (since many country type people are actually very nice) but also a fear that is not always necessarily connected […]
Breakfast At Tiffany’s I will say this: Audrey Hepburn does a GREAT job at playing a devil-may-care free spirit, and the chemistry between her and George Peppard is pretty damm palpable. That being said, the film meanders TERRIBLY during its first hour, casually introducing supporting characters and situations with no real bearing to the main […]
Breakfast Club A true multi-character piece in every sense of the word, John Hughes’ seminal 1985 Grand Masterpiece did more than just become a successful teen movie, but through its incredible writing and acting, literally broke down barriers in the way that American high school students perceived themselves and others, so much so that as […]
Bride Of Chucky For the fourth chapter in the adventures of the killer dolly, the influence of Scream (released two years before) is evident in the self-referential tone, as director Ronny Yu places several quick nods in the first 30 seconds alone to Jason, Freddy, Leatherface, and Michael Myers, and a later kill is an […]
Bridge On The River Kwai In many ways a clear inspiration for Apocalypse Now, David Lean’s WWII epic from 1957 suffers from a bit of schizophrenic storytelling with its desire to split its primary scenes between its two lead actors with mixed results. On one hand, we have Alec Guinness, brilliant and peerless as a […]
Bright Lights Big City Michael J. Fox certainly did an above average job of establishing himself as a master of light comedy fare, hitting the jackpot with Back To The Future using a persona that he had honed to a fine edge as Alex Keaton on Family Ties: an overwrought and continuously exasperated young man […]
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia There can be little debate amongst movie buffs that two of the greatest mavericks in the history of cinema were director Sam Peckinpah and actor Warren Oates. Peckinpah was a notoriously hard driving individual who was not above physically assaulting either movie producers or studio executives, drank gallons […]
Brothers Grimm Make no mistake about it: Terry Gilliam is one of the reigning geniuses in the history of Hollywood, with a track record of one classic after another to show for it. However, in 2005 he managed to come up with undoubtedly his worst movie ever (that I’ve seen), an absolute mess of a […]
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Sometimes a hot spec script can be sold that prior to the actual production itself, a producer on the creative end of things or maybe even the director starts to realize that the concept in and of itself is really completely absurd and coupled with the fact that the original screenwriter […]