Co-writer/ director Tom Shadyac’s puerile 1993 comedy is a series of idiotic, juvenile, and often offensive low-jinks, with an infuriatingly smart-aleck central performance by Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, the goofy private detective who concentrates […]
Co-writer director David Lynch’s stupendous 1980 movie sets out to tell the true life story of John Merrick, known as The Elephant Man, based on the book The Elephant Man and Other Curiosities by Sir Frederick […]
In his final film, director John Sturges’s manly 1976 good, old-fashioned, big-budget wartime adventure thriller movie is based on Jack Higgins’s best-selling novel, set in 1943. It has an eccentric, often miscast all-star roster of players, including […]
Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone star in a fairly awesome movie about using a soccer game to cover an escape from a German POW camp in WWII. Director John Huston’s eccentric 1981 prisoner-of-war adventure hokum […]
Dennis Quaid gives a strong, charismatic performance in the 2002 film The Rookie as Jim Morris, who debuted in US Major League Baseball at the age of 35. Rachel Griffiths plays his neglected wife, and […]
Co-writer/ director Thomas Vinterberg’s raw, incisive and involving 2016 Danish drama about an up-scale hippy commune in the Seventies focuses on the disintegration and death of a marriage in its tale of the clash between personal desires […]
A portrait in wrecked, crumpled charm, Ethan Hawke gives a strong and powerful performance as trumpeter Chet Baker in writer-director Robert Budreau‘s 2015 story of the tormented heroin-addicted jazz legend’s musical comeback in the late Sixties. It […]
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