My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
After Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy, and Flatliners, Julia Roberts’ movie career has been less-than-sizzling. Yes, she’s been in some fairly decent movies but, apparently, if a female movie star doesn’t rake in $100 million everytime out, she’s perceived as a failure. My Best Friend’s Wedding has been oneContinue Reading
Hardware (1990)
Working as a projectionist in 1990, I heard some really cool music emanating from one of the movie houses in the theater where I worked. The music was a song by Public Image Ltd. and it was part of Hardware‘s closing credits. Unfortunately, the movie left before I had aContinue Reading
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Many people have probably seen clips from An American Werewolf in London and not realized it. Many horror movie compilations or “best of” shows frequently use the initial transformation sequence from the film to demonstrate the wonders of Rick Baker’s makeup effects. And that type of honor is deserved —Continue Reading
Batman & Robin (1997)
I finally got my chance to see the second of Joel Schumacher’s “Batman Lite” movies. Schumacher, after taking control of Warner’s big budget franchise in 1995, pronounced that he would make Batman a less dark character on-screen. Of course, he was referring to the film noir-ish quality that Tim BurtonContinue Reading
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Tim Burton may have failed to bring Batman successfully to the screen, but he’s done a slam-bang job of satirizing 1950’s sci-fi in Mars Attacks! A massive fleet of Martian ships is gathering in orbit around the Earth. President Dale (Jack Nicholson) consults his advisers to see what course ofContinue Reading
Men in Black (1997)
For those that doubt a summer movie can live up to the usual hype, I give you Men in Black as an example of a film that does. It’s full of surprises, laughs and has a story that contains just enough gas to keep your attention for the full runContinue Reading
Batman Returns (1992)
1992’s Batman Returns turns up the violence level a bit while turning down the humor a lot. Undoubtedly the darkest film in the Batman series, Batman Returns verges on the point of being unpleasant. Michael Keaton stars, for the last time, as Bruce Wayne and his caped and armored alter-ego,Continue Reading