My friends and I get together once a year to watch cheesy movies and eat cheesy food on a holiday we’ve predictably dubbed “Cheese Day.” Over the course of ten years we’ve ingested some of the tackiest cinema Hollywood has to offer (the inaugural film was SpaceCamp). None of that even remotely prepared me for […]
Robin Williams wants and needs nothing more than to have his own The Truman Show a Hail Mary to ward off permanent stereotyping. Typecast as a goofy loudmouth in throwaway films ranging from Mrs. Doubtfire to Fathers’ Day to Flubber, you have to look back all the way to The Fisher King in 1991 for
Near the end of The Big Bounce, Owen Wilson’s character tells the woman who has just conned him, “I have to be sober to tell this story.” In my opinion, only a drunk would be able explain (or BS) his way through this mess of a movie, a remake of an equally bad film of
For starters, it’s literally crawling with cult-friendly stars, including Jon Favreau (Swingers), Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy), Bud Cort (Harold and Maude), Jon Gries (Real Genius), Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill),and Rachael Leigh Cook (who seems to be making a living off of desert-based movies these days). Secondly, it’s got message boards buzzing with fans asking
As a youngster I faced my fair share of bullies, and like the lead character in Big Fat Liar, my desire to get even with those who wronged me consumed my existence. This was before the days of Home Alone, where coming up with an arsenal of tools for payback meant combing through the dark
Tim Burton’s Big Fish tells the story about a man, Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), whose life is best told in the context of tall-tales and glorified fables. When looking at our own lives, it’s easy to see that all of us have a Bloom-type somewhere in our families. You know, the person that’s able to
For a movie with a title like The Big One, Michael Moore’s follow-up to Roger & Me is awfully small. It’s a mishmash of corporate butt-kickery, political naysaying, and self-indulgence, courtesy of Moore’s random walk across America during a late-’90s book tour. Moore flies from city to city to expose the Hard Times he’s become
The film is based on the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry and follows a chain of events inspired by the arrival of a mysterious suitcase in Miami. A corrupt business owner, Arthur Herk (Stanley Tucci), wants the case, but two useless hitmen (Dennis Farina and Jack Kehler) want him dead. Herk’s wife
The obvious inspirations for Wayne and Garth, Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) first hit history in this witty, winning tale of two modern-day So-Cal misfits who end up travelling through time. The impetus? A future society bases all of its culture on the music Bill and Ted’s band, Wyld Stallyns (And notably the
Jonathan Glazer’s stylish debut Sexy Beast stood out for the uncharacteristically explosive and vicious performance the director coaxed out of stately Ben Kingsley. Evidence of any such energy all but escapes Birth, Glazer’s anticipated follow-up to his kinetic gangster picture. A plodding and pretentious thriller, this beyond the grave affair ends up being too art-house
