Adventures In Babysitting Elisabeth Shue had literally burst onto the scene and into the consciousness of nearly every American male with her role in the vastly overrated “guy film” The Karate Kid, her nearly overwhelming presence of sweet, feminine, nice girl aurora successfully cancelling out Ralph Macchio’s overearnest bad acting in the lead role (and […]
Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension When can an original film be almost TOO original for its own good? Perhaps doing so can guarantee that film the status of being a “cult classic” from the getgo even if more normal minded viewers might take it all in and not really be sure what […]
Adventures Of Ford Fairlane Before he was brought down by the liberal, PC establishment that condemned him and his career for telling dirty jokes, Andrew Dice Clay (in the absolute prime of his career) got his chance to shine in his only major starring vehicle, a hilarious comedy that may be the best example of […]
Aeon Flux The irony of much of science fiction is the blatent tendency to directly copy ideas from other (usually lesser known) sources and to paste them into their own stories with nary a hint of credit or gratitude. One popular “source” so to speak was the early 90s animated series Aeon Flux, from which […]
After Hours Although widely considered one of the “lesser” Scorsese movies due to its low budget and independent roots, this is actually a quite good and masterfully shot descent into the darkness that is NYC’s Soho district. The main drawbacks start with the Griffin Dunne character though: He is so obviously an unlikable weasel that […]
After The Sunset What tries to be a quirky, funny, jewel heist flick is nearly undone by numerous plot holes but is still elevated by a couple of performances. Brosnan plays a ultra-successful jewel thief who in the film’s opening makes his “retirement score” in the midst of an LA Lakers game by ripping off […]
Air Force One The 1990s saw Hollywood carry on an inexplicably sickening love affair with then President Bill Clinton, producing a near record number of films where a President type character would almost always be portrayed in a sometimes over the top positive light all while the real Clinton was carrying on with interns and […]
Airplane! Nearly 30 years after this film’s release, it’s amazing how so few comedies in the years since (if any) have been able to match this film in the laughs per minute ratio. Maybe it’s because the filmmakers (as well as the actors) present the story in such a straight-laced way, so that the funny […]
Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll may possibly have been a pervert, but he was also a genius with mathematics and as a storyteller had an imagination that was unparalleled by anyone up to that time, as seen by the enduring popularity of his Alice stories. This 2010 adaptation by Tim Burton is not so much […]