 | Hercules (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) [Read More ...]
Description: Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in theaters, Hercules stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on video. That there's no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legen... |
 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [Read More ...]
Description: A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen, right? Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of... |
 | La Confidential [Read More ...]
Description: In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, L.A. Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal, and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. Th... |
 | Space Jam [Read More ...]
Description: Although at first glance it looks like a movie dreamed up by a marketing committee (and in some respects it probably was), Space Jam actually defies the odds against it to become a dazzling display of family entertainment. There's a kind of demented genius to the idea of casting ... |
 | Batman Returns [Read More ...]
Description: The first Batman sequel takes a wicked turn with the villainous exploits of the freakish and mean-spirited Penguin (Danny DeVito), whose criminal collaboration with evil tycoon Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) threatens to drain Gotham City of its energy supply. As if that weren't... |
 | Romancing the Stone [Read More ...]
Description: Director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Contact) had a hit with this 1984 comedy that first teamed Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Turner steals the show from the guys, however, playing a pushy romance novelist who gets stuck among some dangerous figures in Co... |
![]() | Going Ape (1981) [Read More ...]
Hilarious!:To not by this movie is a tragedy! It's fantastic!!!! Love Maxa! hahahaha |
 | Hercules (Walt Disney Gold Classic Collection) [Read More ...]
Description: An outrageous odyssey of fun, fantasy, and adventure unfolds in the hilarious hit film HERCULES, Disney's 35th animated triumph "brimming with comic surprise!" (Entertainment Weekly) Taken from the gods as a newborn, adopted on earth, Hercules becomes an awkward teenage pillar of... |
 | Tin Men [Read More ...]
Description: Tin Men, the second in Barry Levinson's ongoing film series about his native Baltimore in the 1950s and '60s, focuses on a pair of competing aluminum-siding salesman at a point when the industry was loaded with scam artists. Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito play rivals who get i... |
 | Other People's Money [Read More ...]
Description: A comedy about a wall street corporate raider and his attempt to acquire an 81-year-old new england wire & cable company. He finds himself in the fight of his life against the company chief executive, his assistant and an attractive new york attorney who takes the attempted busin... |
 | Rainmaker [Read More ...]
Description: When viewed from a cranky perspective, this by-the-book David versus Goliath story doesn't offer any surprises, and it's a bit sad to watch director Francis Coppola (who also adapted John Grisham's bestseller) squandering his once-glorious talent on such conventional Hollywood fa... |
![]() | Throw Momma from the Train [Read More ...]
Review: Mamma don't want you ... and the feeling's mutual.:This dark comedy verges on farce at times, which actually works for it. It's a sort of send up of Hitchcock movies and the like -- particularly "Strangers on a Train" which is featured in the movie in a crucial role. And there ar... |
 | Jewel of the Nile [Read More ...]
Description: This sequel to 1984's rip-snorting romantic-adventure, Romancing the Stone, is a moderately entertaining tale that pales by comparison to its predecessor. Romance novelist Kathleen Turner and retired soldier-of-fortune Michael Douglas return as a now-complacent couple. Bored with... |
 | Wise Guys [Read More ...]
Description: Brian De Palma is one of our most stylish and subversive directors of suspense and horror, but as much nervous laughter as his best films inspire he's out of his depth when trying to direct an out-and-out comedy, as this film proved. Danny De Vito and Joe Piscopo play lifelong fr... |
 | The Virgin Suicides [Read More ...]
Description: Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured... |
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 | Terms of Endearment [Read More ...]
Description: Larry McMurtry's novel becomes a somewhat lumpy film as directed by James L. Brooks (As Good As It Gets). Nevertheless, it is entirely winning, with Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger playing a combative mother and daughter who see each other through various ups and downs in love ... |
 | Mars Attacks! [Read More ...]
Description: It's enlightening to view Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! as his twisted satire of the blockbuster film Independence Day, which was released earlier the same year, although the movies were in production simultaneously. Burton's eye-popping, schlock tribute to 1950s UFO movies actually... |
 | American Film Inst: Steven Spielberg [Read More ...]
Unbelievably Entertaining, Spielberg deserves more!:This video ran chills down my spine. Steven is my hero and Im dying to see more honored to him. He should re-release his older hits in the theatre and make a sequal to Close Encounters. He's a genius! |
 | Junior (1994) [Read More ...]
Description: Arnold Schwarzenegger as a pregnant man? The Terminator with cramps and morning sickness? That was all the teasing audiences needed to flock to this 1994 farce, which reunited Arnold with his director and costar from Twins, Ivan Reitman and Danny De Vito. Reitman had also dire... |
