Happy Birthday To Me It really is something to see when a respected, Oscar-nominated director like J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear ’61, Guns Of Navarone) takes on the slasher genre which was so prevalent in the early 80s. As a result, this film is certainly well-directed, with stylish and efficient touches that set it apart […]
Happy Gilmore A good number of movie comedy stars, despite the fact that their movies make money at the box office, nonetheless have an absolutely abysmal track record when it comes to the actual QUALITY of their movies, starring in one unfunny yuckfest after another where the comedy actor’s allegedly endearing and goofy personality are […]
Hard Candy Vigilante dramas have long been a staple of the cinema experience, with the underlying factor to all of them being that you sided with the protagonist as they carried out their acts of vengeance. This film, however, is the exception to that rule: Our “heroine” is a 14-year old girl named Hayley who […]
Hard Times There may be no more enigmatic figure in the history of cinema than that of Charles Bronson. A guy who (even moreso than John Wayne) played all of his roles with a personality that matched his own real life one and was likewise known as being a straight shooting, no bullshit type that […]
Hard To Kill The Legend Of Steven Seagal is one that bears reminding even after his endless slew of recent direct to video action movies. Raised in the Far East and trained from childhood in the martial arts, he came to Hollywood with a shadowy past and a specialized mastery of both the Aikido and […]
Hardcore If anyone thinks that the world of hardcore pornography is bad in this day and age as it proudly records billions of dollars worth of profit on an annual basis, then they should see what the “adult industry” was like in the 1970s, a decadent wasteland where everyone involved were sketchy types at best […]
Harlem Nights After proving without a doubt that he was the undisputed box office champion of 80s movie comedy (with an output that was considerably less than most of his contemporaries like Chevy Chase), Eddie Murphy was finally given the chance to direct his own film, no expense being spared, no subject matter off limits. […]
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone In many ways, it’s hard not to appreciate the many production aspects of what went into a film like this (the first in the series from 2001): The special effects, costume design, cinematography, art direction, editing, and most anything else you can name are all top-notch, right down to […]