Sometimes movie makers try to pack too much of a good thing into a single film. Or, as in the case of Amazon Women on the Moon, they can think they’re adding lots of good things when, in fact, they’re diluting the film into a soupy mess. Amazon Women onContinue Reading
If ever a movie has deserved a better advertising campaign, it’s Austin Powers. The trailers for this movie, which I first saw before The Empire Strikes Back three months ago, made a man sitting next to me gasp, “That looks absolutely horrible!” He was right! The trailer made this movieContinue Reading
The Coen Brothers are responsible for some of the weirdest movies to come down the pike in Hollywood history. Movies like Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Miller’s Crossing are examples of their sheer, odd genius. Fargo is their best and most coherent work to date. To give tooContinue Reading
Have you ever wondered what all of those high school friends you haven’t seen for years have gone off and done with themselves? Would you be particularly surprised if one of them had become a professional killer? Well, in Grosse Pointe Blank, that’s what Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) has done.Continue Reading
Kevin Smith, responsible for Clerks and Mallrats, is back with the third installment of his “New Jersey Trilogy.” After getting spectacular reviews for Clerks, most critics, including me, panned the disappointing Mallrats for being too juvenile and too quick to go for cheap laughs. Smith apparently took the criticism toContinue Reading
Liar Liar marks Jim Carrey’s return from his “darker” role in last summer’s disappointing The Cable Guy, which turned off many Carrey fans and did little to attract new ones. Liar Liar presents us with the lighter, less psychotic, but in no way less manic, Carrey. The story is centeredContinue Reading
Albert Brooks’ movies have consistently been intelligent and hilarious, without compromising either quality. Upon hearing his latest movie was about a divorced man moving back in with his mother, I feared that Brooks would “sell out” and attempt a movie that would appeal to the sitcom crowd. Thankfully, I wasContinue Reading