This is for Wesley Snipes what Ricochet was for Denzel Washington, a chance to show that he is a good sport, will play ball, is not too proud, is not uppity, has nothing against making money. Lots and lots of it. His role -- the titular passenger -- is that …
A sardonic soap-opera star, having been sideswiped by a New York cab and confined for life to a wheelchair, retires alone to her backwater Louisiana family estate ("I'm not the Wheelchair Olympics type"), where she goes through innumerable bottles of white wine and a fair number of private nurses (thumbnail …
The same hero from The Hunt for Red October (though without the same actor in the role you'd never know him) is enjoying a working holiday in London with his wife and daughter when a terrorist strike against a cousin of the Royal Family unfolds in front of his and …
The British Big Chill, a gathering of all the old gang at the inherited manor of one of them, following the death of his father. Kenneth Branagh, in a hurry to prove he can do anything and everything, has here done something quite different from his Henry V and his …
The horror continues -- or anyway the dreadfulness does -- without any input from Stephen King, but with Mary Lambert still in the director's seat. There's less humor this time, which is to say less of what was least dreadful the first time. Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards, Clancy Brown.
The name is taken from "Ireland's Premier Theatre Company," a tatty itinerant troupe struggling on at the dawn of television, and alighting for the movie's duration in a photogenic village whose own current drama centers around Unwed Mother and Unnamed Father. The development of this is pretty predictable, and it …
Robert Altman's addition to the Hollywood-on-Hollywood library certainly lifted his sagging reputation, though the reasons for its critical success may have had less to do with its intrinsic merits than with its usefulness as a discussion starter, a conversational ice-breaker. More like dam-breaker. It gave the critic an opening to …
Katt Shea Ruben's application to transfer from the cinematic gutter (Stripped to Kill, Stripped to Kill II) into the cinematic cellar: a bad-girl thriller about an adolescent sexual omnivore (Lolita tendencies, lesbian tendencies) with black-rooted bleached hair, a black leather jacket, a stick-on tattoo on her miniskirted thigh, a ring …
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso (Shuichiro Moriyama), a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during …
In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso (Shuichiro Moriyama), a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during …
Inspirational homily about an orphaned English boy in South Africa in the years before the official enactment of apartheid (1948). He believes precociously in integration; he teaches English to blacks; he writes subversive song lyrics in Zulu; and above all -- as this is a John (Rocky) Avildsen film -- …
Modern-day fairy tale, the moral of which is that appearance is not everything; more exactly, one Meg Ryan is not as good as any other Meg Ryan. A decrepit old wedding-crasher in a white suit and straw hat takes a turn kissing the bride, and their souls are magically swapped. …
Howard Franklin's hommage to a Weegee-like tabloid photographer of the type celebrated in the old Warners' programmer, The Picture Snatcher. The writer-director's soft-minded appreciation spills over into Nazi-fighting heroics and a beauty-and-beast romantic angle. Everything considered, Joe Pesci is remarkably subdued, remarkably un-Runyonesque. And the period production turns up just …
Purer Hollywood than country. A burnt-out C&W singer called Dusty, just Dusty ("Ahm tard a all the smoke an the lots. It ain't me"), goes AWOL and back to his roots; finds himself and someone to love him for just him. In spite of the assistance of compulsively swooning camerawork, …