In the early 1960s, director Robert Aldrich came across an outline for a novel by E. M. Nathanson. He tried to buy the rights and failed. MGM successfully bought the rights in 1963. The novel, The Dirty Dozen, was an … Read more
This comedy could have done better with a few more chuckles, but still had me laughing.
A terrifically talented cast goes to waste in this yawner.
Residents of Glenview, OH, sleep soundly tonight. The men of the new “Neighborhood Watch” are on guard. Wait, maybe they’d better keep one eye open…
The Break-Up stars Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as a Chicago couple who buy a condo together and then after their relationship breaks up, neither one wants to move out. An odd situation to say the least, and one that … Read more
This hilarious comedy gets re-released on DVD in an unrated version that really isnt all that different than the rated version but is just as funny.
There are certain actors who are the Field of Dreams of movie making. If you cast them, the audience will come. Both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie fit into this category. So when both were cast in Mr. and Mrs. … Read more
Swingers was one of those movies that I wound up seeing more than a dozen times because the pay-cable channels just loved showing it. Now they love showing lots of movies and I dont constantly tune in for them. But Swingers was funny and I enjoyed the inside film jokes as well as the obvious ones…