Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the makers of Dumb & Dumber and Kingpin, have a knack for making some of the most unusual, but funny, comedies to come down the pike in quite a while. Sometimes, their unique brand of humor results in some outlandish and hilarious sequences. Other times, itContinue Reading
Mike Myers plays Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who is having a hard time finding the right woman. His friend, Tony (Anthony LaPaglia), an undercover cop, says Charlie simply finds excuses to get rid of the women he meets because he’s afraid of making a commitment. Charlie’s world getsContinue Reading
Eddie Murphy’s certainly gotten a career boost out of remaking old 1960’s movies, hasn’t he? 1996’s The Nutty Professor was funny, but in a sort of crude, unpleasant way. Doctor Dolittle is funny and crude too, but with less of the latter and more of the former. Murphy plays Dr.Continue Reading
Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is having a crisis. He’s a photographer who specializes in religious scenes. Needing to find someone to portray Jesus for an upcoming shoot, he finds a man (Jeff Goldblum) who looks the part perfectly. Louis’ friend asks him for a favor, and Louis finds himself recordingContinue Reading
The Spice Girls are a manufactured group ala The Monkees. They play no instruments and can barely sing. However, this hasn’t stopped them from becoming hugely successful in the United States and the UK. So successful have they become that it was deemed necessary for them to make a movie.Continue Reading
Jack Nicholson is well-known for playing less-than-stable people throughout his career. His turns as The Joker in Batman and tormented innkeeper Jack Torrance in The Shining are great examples of how far his characterizations can go. It’s time to add his latest character, the obsessive-compulsive author Melvin Udall from AsContinue Reading
Tom Hanks makes his feature film directorial debut in this rather light-hearted and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young rock-and-roll band in 1964. Now, personally, I wasn’t expecting to like this film very much. The trailers, which I’d seen umpteen thousand times on video and theater screens, didn’t exactly paint theContinue Reading