What does a man who has everything do for fun? He steals high-priced works of art for his own amusement. Pierce Brosnan plays Thomas Crown, a businessman that buys and sells companies with little regard for anything other than making money who also possesses a love of art that heContinue 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
It’s 1985. Robby Hart (Adam Sandler) is a wedding singer in a small New Jersey town. He makes $60.00 a gig singing on the weekends and receives meatballs as payment for singing lessons during the week. Julia (Drew Barrymore) is a waitress at the hall where Robby frequently does weddings.Continue Reading
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
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
James Cameron must feel quite vindicated by the current success of his $200 million epic, Titanic. Over the past year, the movie was deemed a failure waiting to happen as story after story of the studio’s concern about the movie’s budget leaked out. But, after just over three weeks inContinue Reading
Julia Roberts’ true acting career started out with this fine little movie about love and life in the fishing community of Mystic, Connecticut. In the film, Julia plays Daisy, one of two sisters working at a pizzeria called Mystic Pizza. Daisy is basically a slacker, who lives off her looksContinue Reading