Field Details Movie Name Smoke (1995) Director Wayne Wang Writer Paul Auster (screenplay) Lead Actor Harvey Keitel Cast Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau Genre Drama Release Date March 17, 1995 (United States) Duration 1h 57m (117 min) Budget $10 million (approx.) Language English IMDb Rating 7.8/10 WATCH NOW SMOKE (1995): […]
In 1979, Werner Herzog remade the 1922 silent German film “Nosferatu”, bringing the movie into full colour and sound, but keeping much of the atmosphere and look of F.W. Murnau’s classic. Herzog considered the original “Nosferatu” to be the most important German film, and, on the receiving end of a large budget, wanted to make
There are times when Mike Nichols’ long-awaited HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner’s award riddled Reagan era AIDS epic play, Angels in America, just about achieves that grand moment of completion that it’s been striving for, and the failure to do so is almost heartbreaking. There are numerous reasons why Kushner’s play has never been brought
It’s a classic tale a famous movie director named Sullivan decides to stop making comedies and make emotional dramas to appeal to the working class and the downtrodden poor. This is during the Great Depression, so there’s no shortage of poor and huddled masses, but the studio laughs at Sullivan’s film. “What do you know
uncharacteristic performances in Punch-Drunk Love and About Schmidt, Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson have returned to their roots in Anger Management. In Sandler’s case, it’s as the dim-bulb Everyman who sings with a falsetto; in Nicholson’s, as the crazed lunatic with eyebrows of steel. These two performers come together for the first time in a
This 1948 Italian Neorealist film from Vittorio De Sica is one of the most loved, most admired Italian films in cinema history. Though the Italians floored the world in the 50s with their gritty edge, it’s “Bicycle Thieves” that features at the top of critics’ lists of great movies. What’s to love about this film?
I have, quite successfully, managed to stay relatively ignorant of the plot and details concerning Woody Allen’s latest movie, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, except for the front-page matter of a steamy lesbian scene between actresses Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz It was a Herculean effort, but still my mind was polluted with temping images of Penelope
Thank Home Vision Entertainment for bringing the movie back into light and for telling its story it’s actually more interesting than the movie itself. The tale goes that in 1954, the CIA was looking for ways to spread anti-Communist propaganda to do its part to fight the Cold War. Animal Farm seemed like a likely
It’s always a shame when good comedic talent goes bad, and a pleasant surprise when that finally lands a decent role in a funny film. Nothing has been expected of Rob Schneider since his departure from the hellhole of mind-numbing roles like the Copy Guy Richmeister and the Weed Guy on Saturday Night Live, as
Will Ferrell has headed up so many movies of the same type that there needs to be a new genre to describe it: man-boy comedy. He could join the gallery of comedians like Jim Carrey and Mike Myers, who have traded on their ability to make us laugh with infantile antics. In “Step Brothers”, Ferrell
