[8] A gay couple who own a drag show cabaret must pretend to be straight when their son invites his fiancée’s Christian conservative family to meet them for dinner. The Birdcage is an American remake of a French film, which is based on the play “La Cage aux Folles”. Upping the ante for our expectations of remakes and adaptations is the involvement of director Mike …
[4] George Lucas’s much-anticipated return to the Star Wars universe after sixteen years affords the writer/director the advanced technology needed to bring his vision to life, yet there’s little life to be found in the story or characters of his Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Ready for a winding synopsis? Here goes… Ewan McGregor stars as a young Obi-Wan-Kenobi, the apprentice to an older Jedi …
[8] Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn star in this sprawling, family melodrama set in early twentieth century Montana, where the Ludlow family works their ranch in the untamed wilderness. Hopkins plays the patriarch, a pacifist and single father who is dismayed when his sons express desire to enlist in the first World War. Pitt and Quinn play the elder brothers, and Henry Thomas …
[7] First of all, Batman Forever is not Batman and Robin, which came out two years later. For whatever reason, nearly everyone tends to confuse the two or lump them together. Both were directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Falling Down), but in my mind they are very, very different movies. I enjoy Batman Forever way more than I should, but Batman and Robin …
[7] Even when a movie doesn’t quite come together, I sometimes admire the effort and ambition so much, that I have to give a little extra credit. Waterworld is one of those movies, especially after viewing the extended ‘Ulysses Cut’ of the movie, which runs nearly three hours long and fleshes the characters out a bit better than the theatrical cut does. Waterworld takes place …
[6] You can’t say Kevin Costner doesn’t swing for the fences, even if the results aren’t always as celebrated as Dances with Wolves. In this three-hour post-apocalyptic epic, Costner both directs and stars as the title character, a nomad who assumes the identity of a deceased postal carrier. Why would he do that? Well, in post-apocalyptic America, there is no government, not much electricity, no …
[7] [SPOILER REVIEW] When Twin Peaks made its auspicious debut on television in 1990, it begged the question, “Who killed Laura Palmer?” Unfortunately, the second season went off the rails and the show was cancelled before the central mystery could be resolved. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is essentially the feature-film resolution to the cult TV show, taking us through the last days of …
[7] Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this high-concept futuristic actioner about a blue-collar man who pays to have memories of a Mars vacation implanted in his memory — the next-best thing, and a cheaper alternative, to actually going there. But the procedure ends up triggering deeply buried memories of his time as a freedom-fighter on Mars, fighting against an evil corporation who owns and controls the …
[7] In 1950s New Jersey, two Italian brothers struggle to keep their restaurant open as a rival eatery woos their clientele. Part of the problem is a philosophical rift between the brothers, played by Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub. Tucci wants to give the public what they want, while Shalhoub wants to elevate their palettes. As their relationship fractures and the business hangs in the …
[7] Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery headline this amped-up action thriller from reliable hit-makers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (producers of Crimson Tide, Days of Thunder, and Top Gun). Cage plays an elite chemist who is paired with Connery’s ex-con escape artist to infiltrate the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz to stop a disgruntled marine general (Ed Harris) from releasing a deadly nerve gas into …
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