Writer-director Pat Verducci’s 1995 low budget film is a savage and deeply unpleasant thriller on a very familiar theme. Alicia Silverstone stars as bright Catholic school teenager Mary Giordano, a high school senior who is hooked on […]
Director Ulu Grosbard’s fully-fleshed-out, stimulating and intelligent 1981 thriller is adapted from John Gregory Dunne’s novel about a Forties detective bent on solving the brutal murder case of a young prostitute, in a trail that […]
Sadly, it is third time unlucky for MGM with this campy second remake of the Franz Lehár operetta The Merry Widow (following the 1925 silent The Merry Widow with Mae Murray and John Gilbert and The Merry […]
Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]
The powerful and engaging 1998 Australian rites-of-passage movie Head On stars Alex Dimitriades as confused young outsider Ari, a repressed Aussie gay man of Greek descent living in inner city Melbourne. The well done, powerful, […]
Director Joan Micklin Silver’s 1989 romantic comedy stars the fresh young Patrick Dempsey as rebellious college slacker turned pizza delivery boy Randy Bodek (!), who woos mature, frustrated Beverly Hills ladies, in this slow-delivering sitcom, slightly […]
Director Charles McDougall’s 1999 British psychological thriller is twisty and nasty, though not entirely unenjoyable. It has a good setup but a surprisingly cheesy and shaky script considering that it is written by such an […]
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