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True Confession: I love the 80s in a way that could be described as sick, but hadn’t see Flashdance until this year. I know! It makes me want to gasp in horror too! In my own defense, I will say that I own the soundtrack and the leg warmers,...
I always remember my favorite college professor writing the words, “Good stuff, for what it is” on the top of a story I had labored over for most of the quarter. It seemed like a nice way of saying that what I had written was probably fine, for somebody...
Viggo Mortensen has talked about having taken certain roles just to pay the bills, and it’s usually not hard to tell which ones they are. They’re generally in movies you’ve never heard of, like American Yakuza or The Young Americans. With this in mind, I did not have high...
The premise of The Baby is enough to make you want to cover your eyes and run screaming for the hills. The baby, simply called Baby (David Manzy) is actually a full grown man, aged somewhere between twenty and thirty, who lives (in the manner of a baby) with...
As a devoted fan of Little House on the Prairie, I’m pretty much a sucker for any sort of family melodrama that takes place in frontier times. Love’s Everlasting Courage doesn’t have the wit, bite, or grandiosity of a Michael Landon production, but it does costar Half Pint’s real...
With a handful of big Hollywood names chewing scenery for 107 minutes in a movie rife with sex, scandal, and violence, you’d think you’d be in for a pretty entertaining ride, but somehow The Paperboy is as boring and tedious as it is over the top. Zac Ephron stars...
Clint Eastwood has been trying to tell us something with his movies for the past several years, and I’m finally starting to get the memo: he is old. Apparently he’s not interested in making movies about being Clint-Eastwood-old (i.e. eighty-something years old but showing no signs of giving up...
When you think of Disney, you probably place the words drama, tragedy, betrayal, and triumph in the context of their films and associate them with lion kings, little mermaids, and evil sea witches. The name has become synonymous with all that is wholesome and American, and yet the drama...
Oh dear. I think I just watched a movie about myself in middle age, and it’s not pretty. I’m going to turn out like Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates), married to a stick-in-the-mud like Max (Dan Aykroyd) who thinks he wants more excitement than I can offer. At age sixty,...
“Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector is quite easily one of the best songs of the 80s. Use that song as the title of a movie set in that era, and you’ve got yourself a built-in audience. Fail to actually include that song in the...
Street Kings is a bizarre and admittedly kind of fascinating cop movie. It suffers from what on the surface (and well, not so surface) is an “all cops are corrupt, even the good guy” plot that has been done before. It suffers from the limited range of Keanu Reeves...
After a quiet evening spent making Christmas cards, Sister Theresa (voiced by Angela Lansbury) glances out the window and sees a young boy standing under a tree as it is struck by lightning. Not quite believing her eyes, she rallies the other nuns and they venture out into the...
