 | Last of the Dogmen [Read More ...]
Description: Despite an irritating, tacked-on voice-over narration that somebody must have thought was necessary to make sense of the story (it wasn't), Last of the Dogmen is actually a very moving and magical film. Tom Berenger plays a Montana bounty hunter who helps an anthropologist (Barba... |
 | Shy People [Read More ...]
A journalist and her teenage daughter journey to the swamps of the Louisiana bayou to write a story about a long lost branch of their family. |
 | Falling Down [Read More ...]
Description: This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. In fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, com... |
 | Beaches [Read More ...]
Description: Garry Marshall's 1988 drama about a 30-year friendship between two women, one wealthy (Barbara Hershey) and the other (Bette Midler) seeking her fortune in show business, is well written (based on the novel by Iris Rainer Dart) and nicely textured in its contrast between the char... |
 | Portrait of a Lady [Read More ...]
Description: Leave it to New Zealand director Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) to begin an adaptation of Henry James's great novel (set in the late 1800s) with a group of late-20th-century women from Down Under talking about the importance of a kiss. Like any good film adaptatio... |
 | Last Summer [Read More ...]
A wonderfully acted film about the experiences of four teenagers vacationing on the beach at Fire Island, Long Island. When tragedy strikes, the four youths are bound together for life by a terrible secret. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actress--Catherine Burns. |
 | Dangerous Woman [Read More ...]
Review: Debra Winger leads fine cast in important story:Except for a small, slight logical extension to the end, this adaptation is completely faithful to the book. To keep it to a reasonable length, chunks of plot and exposition in the original book have been left out - for example, th... |
 | The Right Stuff [Read More ...]
Description: Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 1980s. It surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the... |
 | With Six You Get Eggroll [Read More ...]
Description: After her long and wholesome run as America's Sweetheart, Doris Day quit movies with this well-scrubbed picture. With Six You Get Eggroll--oof, what a title--caught the wave of blended-family comedies, coming just after Yours, Mine and Ours and just before TV's The Brady Bunch. D... |
![]() | Paris Trout [Read More ...]
Description: Based on a tough and unsparing novel about the nature of racism by Pete Dexter, this TV movie offers strong performances but ultimately can't match the book's power. Dennis Hopper plays Paris Trout, a cruel, angry Southerner who thinks he still lives in the days when white men ki... |
 | Entity [Read More ...]
Spine tingling:This movie is intense to the point of making your skin crawl! I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes movies like this and not to anyone who is a weenie. |
 | Daniel Deronda [Read More ...]
Description: George Eliot's accomplished but underrated last novel is effectively, often stirringly, adapted for this 2002 BBC production, which was scripted by old pro Andrew Davies (Middlemarch) and directed with wit and subtlety by Tom Hooper (Cold Feet). Set in the 1870s, Eliot's story co... |
![]() | Hannah & Her Sisters [Read More ...]
Description: Considered by many to be Woody Allen's best film, even over Annie Hall. Hannah and Her Sisters follows a multitude of characters: Hannah (Mia Farrow), who plays den mother to her extended family; her sister Lee (Barbara Hershey), emotional and a bit of a flake, who's involved wit... |
 | Public Eye [Read More ...]
Review: Well worth releasing on DVD!:I have enjoyed this movie more times than I can remember. Joe Pesci is perfect as the scrappy tabloid photographer who at heart feels that what he is doing is also an ART. The film is about vindicating himself as an artist and reclaiming his personal ... |
 | Stunt Man [Read More ...]
Description: The "lost" sleeper hit of 1980 has since become one of the most revered cult movies of all time, largely due to its bawdy, irreverent story about the art and artifice of filmmaking and an outrageously clever performance by Peter O'Toole. As megalomaniacal film director Eli Cross,... |
 | Take This Job & Shove It [Read More ...]
Hard to find:Take This Job and Shove ItBarbara Hershey doesn't disappoint. Classic working man's movie. Had trouble finding it until I looked on Amazon. |
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 | Breakfast of Champions [Read More ...]
Description: Director Alan Rudolph's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions centers on suicidal car dealer Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), his drug- and television-addled wife Celia (Barbara Hershey), his cross-dressing sales manager Harry (Nick Nolte), his dim secretary and... |
 | Stay the Night Miniseries [Read More ...]
Review: Say you'll stay:This movie was very good. In fact, it was great. The cast was one of the best and the script is very good thought through. The story follows Michael Kettman jr who falls in love with Jimmy-Sue Finger, an adult woman at least twice his age. The relationship becomes... |
 | Flood (1976) [Read More ...]
Itchr(39)s been raining for weeks and the dam above the city of Brownsville is about to run over. But the mayor has put his foot down. He will not open the floodgates to relieve the pressure - it might hurt the fish in the river. |
