Tom Hanks makes his feature film directorial debut in this rather light-hearted and enjoyable comedy-drama about a young rock-and-roll band in 1964. Now, personally, I wasn’t expecting to like this film very much. The trailers, which I’d seen umpteen thousand times on video and theater screens, didn’t exactly paint theContinue Reading
When Will Hunting (Matt Damon) solves a math problem on the blackboard of an MIT class, it propels him into a potentially life-changing situation that he doesn’t want. You see, Will isn’t a student at MIT, he’s a janitor. He also happens to be a genius on the order ofContinue Reading
When I was a boy, I used to love Saturday afternoons. I’d always get up early to watch countless hours of horror and science fiction films that were shown on the afternoon TV matinees. While my favorite movies were the ones that featured large rubber-suited monsters, like Godzilla, there wasContinue Reading
Boogie Nights tells the unusual story of Eddie Adams, a teenager endowed with a special gift — a 13 inch special gift, to be exact. The film chronicles Eddie’s foray into the world of adult films and his encounters with some of that genre’s truly unique characters. Assuming the screenContinue Reading
Leon Gast’s documentary about the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman is at once a documentary about one of the most important boxing matches in history as well as a look at one of the greatest boxers of all time, Muhammad Ali. It also documentsContinue 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
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