Nicolas Cage made his directorial debut with the hopelessly overwrought 2002 hustler melodrama Sonny, featuring one of Brenda Blethyn’s worst performances and a cameo by the director bonkers even by his standards.
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For Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.
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Good intentions go terribly awry in Windtalkers, John Woo’s muddled tribute to Navajo code-talkers in World War II.
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Charles Grodin Month continues with a look at the 1988 dark comedy The Couch Trip, which is just like Loqueesha only not racist, sexist and terrible.
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It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!
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Charles Grodin is hilarious and heartbreaking in one of his best and most overlooked performances as the world’s saddest man in the otherwise middling 1984 comedy The Lonely Guy.
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Mamma mia! Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is very Italian but not very good-a.
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John Travolta and Nora Ephron flopped big time with Adam Resnick’s deliciously mean screenplay about the darkly comic machinations of some small-time, small town losers in 1980s Pennsylvania.
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A smartly cast Tom Arnold terrorizes Rick Moranis in the blisteringly dark 1996 comedy Big Bully, which is way more like a Todd Solondz movie than you would ever imagine.
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Our in depth exploration of the films of Tom Arnold continues with a look back at his Oscar-winning 1996 masterpiece Carpool.
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