‘Vampire Effect’ is ‘Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’-light, but not quite as good
Vampire Effect is a poor supernatural action film that struggles to balance a Romeo and Juliet star-crossed romance with other plot lines that arent quite as interesting.
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‘Daddy Day Care’ ushers in family-friendly era for Eddie Murphy
With movies like Dr. Doolittle and The Nutty Professor under his belt Eddie Murphy has found his niche in the funny fuzzy sort of family films that kiddies and parents can enjoy together.
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‘Alien 3’ has loads of style, but a storyline that got bastardized in production
Although not the follow-up to Aliens that it should have been this film does have some merit. And that merit came in the form of its director David Fincher.
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‘Requiem for a Dream’ is so good, it made British girls pass out and throw up
Requiem For A Dream is the 21st Centurys answer to The Exorcist. The latter was banned in Britain from 1973 to 1998
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‘Aliens’ echoes the original and set the standard for movie sequels
If Alien was considered a classic of horror James Camerons Aliens was pure action and adventure. Although it still held elements of horror Aliens offered up a action heavy film.
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With ‘Alien’ Ridley Scott turned horror and science fiction on its head
I first saw Alien when I was a young child. It was on television late one night. I dont recall being particularly scared but I did enjoy the film. It was exciting with cool special effects — for the time — and a great creature.
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‘Bowling for Columbine’ speaks Michael Moore’s truth about guns in America
Michael Moore takes a poignant witty and tragic look at the dangers of guns and the obsession of violence in American society.
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‘Miller’s Crossing: Special Edition’ is a Coen brothers film that needs to be viewed more than once
When Millers Crossing opened the New York Film Festival in 1990 it was going to be the film that would see the Coens hit the big time at last and simultaneously make Gabriel Byrne an international superstar. Somehow this didnt happen and Im at a loss to explain why.
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‘Rebecca’: Alfred Hitchcock transforms seductive love story into satisfying suspense
To precede any one of Hitchcocks films with Hitchcocks Masterpiece… is practically redundant. It simply goes without saying.
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ is genius science fiction
When I was a wee-lad I can remember seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind on television. Originally released in 1977 it was in theaters a second time in 1979. However I was still young at the time and have no memory of seeing it in the theaters…
