What if you realized that everything in your life had been carefully selected and molded by a TV producer for a show about your life? That’s what happens to Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show. Burbank has a relatively comfortable life as an insurance salesman. He’s married toContinue Reading
Roberto Benigni co-wrote, directed and stars in this comedy-drama about the horrors of World War II. It’s an unusual film that begins as a light-hearted romantic comedy and ends with a descent into the hell of WWII labor camps. The film begins with Guido Orefice (Benigni) and his friend arrvingContinue Reading
For those of you that immediately flinch when the name Shakespeare is mentioned, and who have all but put seeing this movie out of your mind as a result, let me assure you that this movie is not a drab, dull march down the musty halls of a literary tortureContinue Reading
This coming-of-age film follows the misadventures of Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), a somewhat unattractive girl, as she fumbles her way through 7th grade. Her parents favor their younger, more attractive daughter, Missy (Daria Kalinina). Her classmates call her “Wienerdog”, and her attempts to fight back when persecuted get her inContinue Reading
Lawyers as tools of the devil? What a unique concept! Al Pacino as Satan himself? Great entertainment value! Keanu Reeves as an up-and-coming Florida lawyer? You’ve got to be kidding! Keanu Reeves plays Kevin Lomax, a young Florida defense attorney who has never lost a case. Of course, that meansContinue Reading
Dustin Hoffman sure has been in his share of stinkers lately. This movie proceeded the rather poor Wag the Dog into, and out of, theaters late last year. Trying, in a somewhat more controlled way than Wag the Dog, to be a film that teaches the audience that the mediaContinue Reading
Watching Tupac Shakur, the gangsta rapper who was murdered in 1996, play an addict who decides its time to quit drugs is kind of unsettling. Why? Because Shakur gives one hell of a performance as the addict in question. It makes one wish Shakur would have stayed away from theContinue Reading