A little cheese on the corporate ladder (Liam Hemsworth), desperate to raise money to pay for his dad’s life-saving operation, accepts the boss’s offer to spy on the competition in this moldy melodrama given a techno facelift. What good is a thriller if the audience is always two-steps ahead of …
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 …
Murder mystery from the Scott Turow novel, about whose surprise ending (and its gaping defects) we are sworn to silence. But it really isn't necessary to go too deep into details. The movie starts out on an alarmingly pompous note, with an "I am a prosecutor" opening statement delivered in …
Director Steven Spielberg and executive producer/co-writer George Lucas pay homage to the cliffhanger serials of the Thirties and Forties — and they pay handsomely, pumping the project so full of money, production values, and technical razzle-dazzle that it no longer remotely resembles its grade-B models. Not intending exactly a spoof, …
Director Steven Spielberg and executive producer/co-writer George Lucas pay homage to the cliffhanger serials of the Thirties and Forties — and they pay handsomely, pumping the project so full of money, production values, and technical razzle-dazzle that it no longer remotely resembles its grade-B models. Not intending exactly a spoof, …
A plane crash brings together a husband and a wife whose respective wife and husband, seated side-by-side on the ill-fated plane, were cheating on them. The surviving wife (Kristin Scott-Thomas, very classy) is a politician, so she wants the secret kept a secret; but the surviving husband (Harrison Ford, with …
Mike Nichols on vacation from urbanity, sunning himself in Squaresville: "a long, tough rehabilitation" -- a road billboarded with triumph and insight -- after a high-powered Manhattan attorney stops two bullets in a convenience-store holdup. Getting an initial boost from a jiving, high-fiving black physical therapist, he has to start …
Another genealogical revelation, very much in the same line as the sole revelation in The Empire Strikes Back. Numerous other pursuits and skirmishes and creatures and contraptions -- again in the same line as those that came before. The third and final chapter in the adventures of Luke Skywalker and …
Another genealogical revelation, very much in the same line as the sole revelation in The Empire Strikes Back. Numerous other pursuits and skirmishes and creatures and contraptions -- again in the same line as those that came before. The third and final chapter in the adventures of Luke Skywalker and …
More isn't always better, ventures the eponymous heroine. "Sometimes it's just more." Truer words never fell on deafer ears. Sydney Pollack's update of Billy Wilder's fairy-tale-for-grownups is, by virtue of fidelity to its forebear, a well-constructed piece of work, and (major assist to cameraman Giuseppe Rotunno) a gleamingly polished one …
Opposites stranded on a tropical island -- a battered and boozy pilot and a hip bag-of-bones journalist in an assortment of braless tops -- with only a boatload of pirates for company. (The hero is called Quinn or, in the regional French accent, "Queenie," in an apparent attempt to promote …
There was, of course, no need for this story to be told. Some might even argue that there was a need for it not to be told, so that some shred of mystery could be preserved in a franchise that devoted three films to unveiling a Dark Father as a …
George Lucas's homage to Flash Gordon embraces, too, some of the beloved clichés of cowboy, swashbuckler, and aviator movies. The story is set in a remote galaxy in the remote past, so that it can't be mistaken as a reflection of anything in modern-day society except Hollywood hokum, and it …
George Lucas's homage to Flash Gordon embraces, too, some of the beloved clichés of cowboy, swashbuckler, and aviator movies. The story is set in a remote galaxy in the remote past, so that it can't be mistaken as a reflection of anything in modern-day society except Hollywood hokum, and it …
George Lucas's homage to Flash Gordon embraces, too, some of the beloved clichés of cowboy, swashbuckler, and aviator movies. The story is set in a remote galaxy in the remote past, so that it can't be mistaken as a reflection of anything in modern-day society except Hollywood hokum, and it …