Est. 1998
Movie Infos Title: Shakespeare in love Year: 1998 Director: John Madden Writer: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow Joseph Fiennes Geoffrey Rush Ben Affleck Judi Dench … Normally, I wouldn’t touch a film like this with a ten foot pole. I’m really not a fan of period films; I find them too pompous and restrictive. But with all the praise and Oscar buzz this…
It opens with a bloody, possibly dying John Wick (a bearded, semi-longhaired Keanu Reeves) stumbling out of a car… Then we flash back to a few days earlier, with John Wick being haunted by memories of his recently deceased wife. He’s now all alone in the world, until a dog is delivered to his house, a gift from his wife from beyond the grave….
I love Jennifer Garner, I love comic books, and I loved Jennifer in her first comic book movie, the unfairly maligned Daredevil. You’d think a spin-off movie revolving around her Elektra character would be can’t-miss fun, at least for me, but it wasn’t meant to be. Marvel’s made some of the best super-hero flicks ever with the Spider-Man and X-Men series, but they’ve also committed such atrocities as Hulk, The Punisher and the upcoming…
Jon Voight stars as Eddie, an Everyman who has to become extraordinary when faced with extraordinary events. To think it was all supposed to be so simple… Eddie let himself be convinced by his buddy Louie (Burt Reynolds) to go on a canoe trip down a wild river deep in the woods. That strip of nature is about to be destroyed by machines and corporations…
If you’re a snob, you’ll look down at this film, of course. But if you understand that this is a spoof and that it doesn’t take itself seriously, you’re gonna have a wild time. This movie confirms Trey Parker as the Orson Welles of absurd comedy (well, not really, but hey…). His best known work still remains TV’s animation sensation “South Park”, but you might…
What makes Back to the Future one of the best movies ever made? That’s right, I said it. I know it hasn’t been accepted into any serious film canon and that, at best, people will call it a great popcorn movie, but having just watched it for about the tenth time, I can not refrain my feeling that this is a bona fide masterpiece. Inasmuch…
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“She says the jungle… it just came alive and took him.” A shot of outer-space. Someone, something is arriving on Earth. Dutch’s also landing, but from an helicopter, not a spaceship. Dutch’s a real man’s man, masterfully played by the always great Arnold Schwarzenegger. Rough beard, sharp haircut, huge muscles and a big cigar in mouth, Dutch is the kind of character Schwarzie was born…
“There’s Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes, smiling at the majorettes smoking Winston cigarettes.” Genesis, Broadway Melody of 1974 Before going into self-imposed Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E, Howard Hughes was America’s first billionaire, a Hollywood producer who made the tabloid headlines as much as the starlets of his movies and a pioneer of the air travel business. Taking control of his Texan family’s “drill bits” fortune as a…
“An Absolute Blast!” – George Romero “It’s a 10 on the fun meter and destined to be a cult classic.” – Stephen King “The Most Entertaining Film I Have Seen All Year.” – Peter Jackson Do you still need little old me to convince you to see the damn movie? Aah, if you insist… “Shaun of the Dead” IS an absolute blast, it IS an…