When quick-witted slacker John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII. Directed by Ivan Reitman and also starring Harold Ramis, John Candy, and John Larroquette.
Sergio Corbucci has directed some of the more commendable spaghetti Westerns -- The Mercenary, Sonny and Jed, and The Hellbenders among them -- but this infantile Action Comic, about a Miami policeman endowed with the power to do pretty much anything he pleases, unless and until the color red disrupts …
Early on, there are enough eulogistic speeches, military formations, and regimented, geometrized compositions to produce goose flesh on anyone who retains a soft spot for John Ford, and to produce hives on anyone who doesn't. Quite soon, the view of military life becomes a bit more ambivalent than John Ford's. …
Multiple-pairs romantic comedy by Peter Bogdanovich, whose concept of romance, as of comedy, tends to be hand-me-down and to not suit him very well. The action, set in Manhattan and eccentrically concentrating on the country-western scene there, matches a rather diverse group of private detectives against a rather undiverse group …
James Caan, in a stuck-on-himself performance that appears not to tolerate or even to notice anyone else in the movie, portrays a modern master at the title trade. Despite his cold-bloodedness, despite his lone-wolfishness, despite his residence in the Joliet state penitentiary for most of his adult life, he still …
Summoned home for their mother's funeral, three very dissimilar brothers (in physiognomy as much as in profession or philosophy) reacquaint themselves with their peasant roots and with each other. They reminisce, they dream bad dreams, they sit around and talk, or they do nothing at all while sad music plays …
A laid-back Canadian, who conjures up a Leonard Cohen tune on the soundtrack when he is in a moody mood, travels to California to console himself for a broken romance. There, he is easy prey for religious cultists who call themselves "Heavenly Children" and follow a figure known only as …
The imaginative child of torpid, TV-mesmerized parents is delighted one night to have a Medieval knight come crashing out of a clothes closet on horseback, gallop across the bedroom, and disappear through the far wall. The next night is even better: six midgets pop up, armed with a secret map …
Unintelligible rendition of the John Gregory Dunne novel: unintelligible in such small matters as what's being said at any particular moment, as well as in the larger scheme of things. Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro, both acting on automatic pilot, portray Irish-American brothers, the former a cop and the …
Gothic mystery tailored for schoolgirls. Or for any 1980s moviegoer, actually, who would like once again to see something in the chiller category without having to dread the amounts of blood to be spilt. The Disney insignia pretty well guarantees that nothing too grisly will occur, and what has been …