Donnie Brasco is an ambitious thug, or so it seems. In fact, he’s Joseph Pistone, an undercover FBI agent who lived as a gangster for years. As the film begins, he’s about to enter the big leagues. His ticket is Lefty, a bitter wise guy who worked for the Mob for 30 years but was never made. He befriends Brasco and helps him make his…
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A Night at the Roxbury
A trendy Manhattan nightclub. Haddaway’s cheez-dance smash hit “What Is Love?” is loudly playing. Two Gucci suit-wearing, sideburned, hair-gelled, nose-strutting, head-shaking brothers are leaning over the bar. They turn and scan the crowd, looking for babes. “Wanna dance? Me? Him? Me? Him?” They approach the lady, jump frantically around her, sandwich her on the dance floor and dry-hump her until she leaves, pissed. “Score!” Okay,…
BLADE
Movie Infos Title: Blade Year: 1998 Director: Stephen Norrington Oh man! This is so the best comic book adaptation ever! “Superman” is dated and uneven, “Batman” is more about style than substance, “The Crow” is strangely unexciting, “The Phantom” is a lot of fun but a bit childish and “Spawn” is busier with FX than anything else. Now comes “Blade”, a take-no-prisoners flick with more…
Fight Club
“You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can’t sleep. What happens then is there’s a gun in your mouth. What happens next is you…
Spymate
I know some will find my two star rating here incredible, as most reviews will go with single or even zero stars. There’s even a dude on IMDb calling it “the worst movie I have ever seen”, and I can’t say that I blame him. I mean, just the synopsis baffles the mind: an ex-spy monkey now working as a trapeze artist must go back…
Rounders
You know what? Matt Damon’s starting to grow on me. When Francis Ford Coppola’s “The RainMaker” came out, Damon was so over-hyped and drooled over that I hated him right away and avoided the film altogether. I also stood clear of “Good Will Hunting” when it came out, even though all of Hollywood was praising it. In fact, the first time I really saw Damon…
Superhero Movie
There are two kinds of movie spoofs. The ones like Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” or the “Austin Powers” series, which would be more accurately described as comedic genre homages, because they actually develop a story and characters of their own. And then you’ve got outright parodies like “Airplane!”, “Spaceballs” or “Hot Shots!”, which target specific characters and scenes and put…
Aliens
Whenever you hear about James Cameron, it’s generally about what an arrogant prick he is. I admit that his acceptance speeches don’t advantage him, but since I don’t know him personally, I can’t say if he’s a good guy or not. What I do know is that he’s one of the most brilliant craftsmen in Hollywood. You could say that his talent is mostly…
Wrongfully Accused
Back in 1980, writers-directors David Zucker and Jim Abrahams created a new genre of comedy with the classic spoof “Airplane”. They were enthusiastically trying to make you laugh the loudest and more often possible with non-stop gags, slapstick, puns, goofs and movie parodies, with the help of the deadpan white-haired actors that would become their allies of choice, Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Nielsen. They went…
Gladiator
“The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story.” Indeed, striking is the epic tale of Maximus (Russell Crowe). A Spanish-born army general of the Roman Empire at its strongest, Maximus leads the troops that defeat the last rebellious barbarians of Germania in the film’s visceral, “Saving Private Ryan”-style opening. He then longs to…