Nicolas Cage is let off the leash to play a tic-infested con artist with an obsessive-compulsive disorder, a phobia for dirt and the outdoors, a mania for canned tuna. Frisking and frolicking to keep pace are Alison Lohman as the teenage daughter he never knew he had, and Sam Rockwell …
The story of Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics via battle sequences. Directed by Ridley Scott.
A long-planned, crushingly filmed prequel to Alien, with director Ridley Scott again insulting his high achievement in Blade Runner. Many borrowed themes get rummaged together with absurd effects, dismal violence, and self-administered surgery by a scientist (Noomi Rapace) that seems both for and against abortion (in this ugly, loopy vision, …
The fifth collaboration between director Ridley Scott and leading man Russell Crowe (Body of Lies, American Gangster, A Good Year, Gladiator, count ’em) won’t satisfy your craving for the legend, but perhaps your craving, if any, for Dark Age dreariness, savage combat (shot in that skittery long-lens style that looks …
Star witness under police protection, set to the pertinent tune of Gershwin, and in his own town too. The pivotal policeman, the one on the night shift that is, when a shoulder is most apt to be needed to nest on, is Just Your Average Joe ("Fuckin' A!") and the …
The tax evaders this time -- land speculators fronted by a religious cult, and backed by an army of hooligans who do not stop short of murder -- are bigger fish than last time; and their very bigness kills some of what seemed to be the humor -- the burlesque …
What would or could have been cause circa 1970 for something wayward, moody, contemplative, possibly even introspective, is here just an excuse to bring Hollywood flash and frippery out onto the road and into the heartland. Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black Rain) might seem to be a little …
An enjoyable new course in the Disney educational curriculum (Dead Poets Society, Renaissance Man, Dangerous Minds, Mr. Holland's Opus, etc. ), an old-fashioned boys-made-men adventure story, based on factual accounts of the 1960 voyage of the Albatross, a nautical classroom that set sail in the Caribbean with a crew of …