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
In The Professional, Jean Reno plays Leon, a professional hitman, or “cleaner,” who takes in his 12-year-old next door neighbor and teaches her his trade. Mathilda (Natalie Portman) has narrowly escaped getting murdered — unlike the rest of her family — by corrupt DEA agent Stansfield, played with violent gleeContinue Reading
When this movie burst into theaters in 1991, it caused a bit of commotion. It was heralded by some as being an eye-opening account of life in troubled communities of inner city Los Angeles. It was condemned by others as a violent exploitation of the same issue. To anyone that’sContinue Reading
Los Angeles crime boss Mickey Cohen has been arrested and is serving a ten year sentence. A vacancy at the organized crime throne makes it open season for out-of-town thugs to try to move in and assume control. The L.A. police force, headed by Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), resort toContinue 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