Motivational speaker Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) has just learned his father died. Actually, he’s just learned that he had a father. You see, his mother had told him that his father died while saving a small boy from drowning. In reality, his mother packed her bags and left the irresponsibleContinue Reading
When a book is considered by many to be “unfilmable,” that might be an indication that it’s actually unfilmable. Many believed that if anyone could take Hunter S. Thompson’s book and make it into a watchable movie, it would be Terry Gilliam, who’s brought some delightfully oddball work, like 12 Monkeys and TheContinue Reading
Gaz (Robert Carlyle) is a wily, unemployed steelworker in Sheffield, a once-thriving British city which has now been reduced to a shadow of its former self. When the Chippendale male dancers arrive at the local pub for an engagement, Gaz gets the idea of putting together his own troupe ofContinue Reading
Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is a mild-mannered, somewhat squarish teacher in the small town of Greenleaf, Indiana. He’s engaged to his girlfriend of three years, Emily (Joan Cusack), and is also the high school’s track coach. He’s happy and everything in his life seems perfect. Greenleaf was the home ofContinue Reading
The original Scream was a fun, exhilarating romp through the world of horror movie cliches. The characters possessed intelligence and knew how horror movies were constructed and they used that knowledge to try and save themselves from a psycho killer. In Scream 2, a fresh crop of college freshmen areContinue Reading
Jennifer Aniston takes a detour from her Friends persona in this 1997 romantic comedy. I’m not a big fan of Friends, but I have always thought that Jennifer Aniston was an adequate actress. Her comrades, David Schwimmer (The Pallbearer) and Courteney Cox (Scream) have both been in movies that IContinue Reading
B-movies are one way to liven up any evening of movie-watching. This pleasantly surprising bit of horror comedy from 1986 is a great way to kill an hour and a half. That is, if you’re able to handle a fair share of groan-inducing humor and somewhat gruesome special effects. BackContinue Reading