 | Enchanted April (1991) [Read More ...]
Description: This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crust... |
 | Evening Star [Read More ...]
Description: Picking up the story thread left by 1983's Terms of Endearment, this overwrought sequel is made palatable by Shirley MacLaine's charismatic performance, which in turn is nearly equaled by Marion Ross's role as her housekeeper. An unexpected surprise, Ross obviously was never allo... |
 | The Phantom of the Opera [Read More ...]
Description: Although it's not as bold as Oscar darling Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera continues the resuscitation of the movie musical with a faithful adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster stage musical. Emmy Rossum glows in a breakout role as opera ingénue Christine Daae, and ... |
 | Lilo & Stitch [Read More ...]
Description: Warm, funny, and imaginative, Lilo & Stitch is the best animated feature the Walt Disney Studios have produced in years. On the planet Turo, mad scientist Jumba Jookiba (voice by David Ogden Stiers) has created a miniature monster programmed for destruction. When the monster esca... |
 | Empire of the Sun [Read More ...]
Description: Roundly dismissed as one of Steven Spielberg's least successful efforts, this very underrated film poignantly follows the World War II adventures of young Jim (a brilliant Christian Bale), caught in the throes of the fall of China. What if you once had everything and lost it all... |
 | Apostle [Read More ...]
Description: Written, directed, and personally financed by Robert Duvall, The Apostle was the culmination of a 14-year effort on the part of its creator, who also stars as the dynamic, God-fearing Texas preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey. Vibrantly authentic with its use of real gospel preachers a... |
![]() | Damage (Unrated) [Read More ...]
Description: The fascination of watching Damage is similar to the fascination of watching a car crash in progress--you know something unpleasant is going to happen, but your attention is riveted to the scene of destruction. In the case of this acclaimed drama, adapted by playwright David Hare... |
 | Transmutations [Read More ...]
Review: Frankenstein meets the turtles:This is now a more obscure little film, written by Clive Barker.The story centers around a young prostitute that is kidnapped by a group of mutants who are hooked on a mind expanding drug created by a sinister doctor. She is kidnapped because, thoug... |
 | Fatherland [Read More ...]
Description: This retro-futuristic adventure depicts a 1964 in which Hitler won the war and Joe Kennedy Sr. is U.S. president. Europe is known as Germania and opens its borders to American journalists, hoping to line up the U.S. as an ally against Russia. Set design and costumes very effectiv... |
![]() | Fatherland [Read More ...]
Review: Outstanding and thoughtful alternate history:I'm really wondering if the 1st reviewer actually saw the movie, since he got so many of the movie "pre-history" setting facts wrong.
The time is 1964, and a new US President (Joseph Kennedy Sr.) has just been elected. It was HIS voi... |
 | Fatherland (1994) [Read More ...]
Description: This retro-futuristic adventure depicts a 1964 in which Hitler won the war and Joe Kennedy Sr. is U.S. president. Europe is known as Germania and opens its borders to American journalists, hoping to line up the U.S. as an ally against Russia. Set design and costumes very effectiv... |
 | Century [Read More ...]
Very Underrated!!:This is a very underrated film about doctor discovering a dark side of an institution.It's a must see!!! |
 | Lilo & Stitch [Read More ...]
Description: Warm, funny, and imaginative, Lilo & Stitch is the best animated feature the Walt Disney Studios have produced in years. On the planet Turo, mad scientist Jumba Jookiba (voice by David Ogden Stiers) has created a miniature monster programmed for destruction. When the monster esca... |
 | Sleepy Hollow (Spec) [Read More ...]
Description: The films of Tim Burton shine through the muck like a jack-o-lantern on a foggy October night. After such successes as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands, it should come as no surprise that Sleepy Hollow is a dazzling film, a delicious reworking of Washington ... |
 | The Apostle [Read More ...]
Description: Written, directed, and personally financed by Robert Duvall, The Apostle was the culmination of a 14-year effort on the part of its creator, who also stars as the dynamic, God-fearing Texas preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey. Vibrantly authentic with its use of real gospel preachers a... |
 | Kate Bush: The Line, the Cross & The Curve [Read More ...]
Review: Concept album becomes film:The Red Shoes is a concept album (CD) based on the classic novel and film of a ballarina who aquires a pair of magical red ballet shoes that when worn becomes a curse of having to dance forever and ever across the land as she can not remove them. The st... |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson's St Ives [Read More ...]
Description: Not to be confused with the Charles Bronson vehicle of the same name, St. Ives--All for Love when it debuted on the BBC--is based on St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, by Robert Louis Stevenson. The irreverent tale revolves around the exploits of Capt... |
 | The Crying Game [Read More ...]
Description: The Crying Game offers a rare and precious movie experience. The film is an unclassifiable original that surprises, intrigues, confounds, and delights you with its freshness, humor, and honesty from beginning to end. It starts as a psychological thriller, as IRA foot soldier Ferg... |
 | The King and I [Read More ...]
Description: For no apparent reason, 1999 became the year of The King and I. The 1956 version with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr received a glorious digital transfer on video, and Jodie Foster starred in a new, nonmusical version of this story of the King of Siam and the English schoolmistres... |
 | Alice in Wonderland (1999) [Read More ...]
Description: This is an impressive-looking version of Lewis Carroll's story originally produced for NBC-TV. Dreading a singing recital at her parents' lavish home, Alice falls into a strange world in pursuit of a large White Rabbit. The talented child actor Tina Majorino (Corrina, Corrina) p... |
