Whatever its intrinsic interest, Nick Broomfield's (and Joan Churchill's) post-execution addendum to his 1992 documentary, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, gets a boost from its close proximity to the docudrama on the same subject, Monster. It allows you to study at length and at close range the …
A date movie for those who like their passion slow-burning and risky and their storytelling laconic and moody. Bob (Casey Affleck, whose voice and manner seem to hail from the Great Depression) is an outlaw who winds up in jail for a crime he didn't commit (plus maybe some he …
Wild and crazy guys flying drugs (among other things) for the CIA in what the opening title specifies is "Laos, Southest Asia, 1969" -- so as not to be confused, presumably, with Laos, New Mexico. Plotting and characterization are no less overexplicit, even amidst a visual style that's like sweeping …
Some above-average pet tricks, involving a golden retriever and a basketball, buried deep in Disney clichés of athletic underdoggism and triumph. More half-hearted than usual (which is maybe to say quarter-hearted), and the slapstick is torture. With Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena; directed by Charles Martin Smith.
Rookie Michael Jordan teams up with Nike’s fledgling basketball division to revolutionize the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. From director Ben Affleck.
The President's plane is hijacked by reactionary Communists out of Kazakhstan, and only one man can stop them: the President himself. As a valorous Vietnam vet and a Medal of Honor winner ("He knows how to fight!" effuses his former commanding officer), he stands roughly the same chance of beating …
Wanna-be Dog Day Afternoon, only a (wanna-be) comedy, about a wanna-be rock band who take over an L.A. radio station with water guns, precipitating a standoff with police. (To maintain topicality, the cry of "Attica!" gets replaced by "Rodney King!") Good physical humor from Michael Richards; unrivalled by any other …
A takeoff (peculiarly appropriate term in this context, although the implication of getting off the ground makes it a misnomer after all) on the Airport series of disaster films. Several flashbacks allow it to take off on other tacks as well, and indeed it seems constitutionally unable to remain on …
People who enjoyed the predecessor seem to be disappointed in the sequel. People who did not enjoy the predecessor will have difficulty telling much difference. But because fidelity, not originality, is the goal this time (a new writer and director, Ken Finkleman, has taken over for the Kentucky Fried Theater …
This movie begins in the realm of the ridiculous (the airborne pleasure palace borrows several ideas in first-class travel accommodations from The Big Bus, and the audience is expected to go ga-ga over them), and it follows a course even sillier than the forerunners in the Airport series (the attempted …
Rookie Michael Jordan teams up with Nike’s fledgling basketball division to revolutionize the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. From director Ben Affleck.
Fast-talking basketball scout travels to deepest Africa to recruit a blue-chip beanpole, gets involved in local politics, precipitates a basketball war, grows as a human being, triumphs as a sportsman, gets his man, gets promoted -- the feel-good prescription. With Kevin Bacon and Charles Gitonga Maina; directed by Paul Michael …