Topical satire on privatized warfare in the Middle East, “satire” being defined as a fictional form that depends on your political sympathies overriding your aesthetic standards. Even if your sympathies are in perfect alignment, however, this one seems a complete misfire, resorting to fisheye lenses for comic emphasis, mock-Morricone spaghetti-Western …
Your monthly serial-killer fix. Your killer, as you like him, is an egomaniacal taunter, Fed-Ex-ing photos of his targeted victims to the cops, twenty-four hours prior to strangulation. For the role, Keanu Reeves lowers and loudens his speaking voice, sounding about as self-assured as a seventeen-year-old when attempting to purchase …
Sanctimonious sojourn in what is authoritatively called "the fourteenth worst place on Earth." (The worst? "L.A., of course.") The narrative framework is the well-worn one of the development of conscience in the objective journalist, determined in this instance to lead an exodus of orphans out of the war-torn Balkans. This …
The battle of the sexes, rigged for the distaff side. A male chauvinist ad exec (Mel Gibson, cranked up a few notches) receives a jolt of electricity and, miraculously, the consequent power to hear women's thoughts. After a bumpy period of adjustment, he settles comfortably into the role of enemy …
Middle-age-crazy road comedy about four Cincinnati suburbanites who head out for Los Angeles on their recreational choppers, hoping to reclaim their freedom as well as their manhood, coping along the way with weak prostates, a gay cop (horrors!), an angry bull, and an angrier gang of pseudonymous Hell's Angels. None …
It was a stroke of fortune if not of genius for filmmaker Darren Aronofsky to cast Mickey Rourke in the title role of Randy “The Ram” Robinson (né Robin Ramzinski), a Dodge Ram-driving, self-described “old broken-down piece of meat,” two decades past his prime, yet persisting in plying his trade …