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 […]
Alien: Director’s Cut Without a doubt the last word when it comes to science fiction / horror movies, Ridley Scott’s influential masterpiece does nonetheless still suffer from some pacing and writing issues in the first half. It would seem that screenwriter Dan O’Bannon wants to establish the mundane quality of space travel (which he also […]
Alien 3: Director’s Cut The first major work of the now legendary David Fincher is a relentlessly depressing exercise in a bleak and nilhilistic journey. Many fans (including myself) were pissed at the casual way the awesome characters of Hicks and Newt were killed off here, and Bishop basically reduced to the scrap heap, but […]
Alien: Resurrection: Director’s Cut If there’s one thing I find kinda annoying, it’s when fanboys of a certain movie franchise go up in arms about sequels taking things in a different direction and trying something new: Thus the case here with the most underrated film of the Alien series. Director Jeunet decided to infuse his […]
Aliens: Director’s Cut Basically the film that rewrote the rules of sci-fi action and established a bar in pacing and violence that has rarely been topped, James Cameron’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s seminal classic is the rare example of the follow-up that actually manages to top the original all the way around. Sigourney Weaver returns […]