John Travolta’s epic losing streak continues with 2006’s Lonely Hearts, a stinkeroo based on the same real-life story that inspired The Honeymoon Killers that wastes an amazing cast that includes James Gandolfini, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto, Scott Caan and Laura Dern.
Read MoreNora Ephron Month concludes with an affectionate look back at 2005’s Bewitched, a muddled, excessively convoluted meta take on the 1960s sitcom that god help me, I kinda liked.
Read MoreBefore she was a big time director Nora Ephron was the writer of scruffy comedies like 1989’s Cookie.
Read MoreThe screenwriter of Scarface and Conan the Barbarian turns his attention to the plight of a strong-willed Vietnamese woman whose life is shaped and molded by war in the 1993 biopic Heaven and Earth, a real outlier in the filmmaker’s otherwise macho filmography.
Read MoreRevisiting a short-lived Tales from the Crypt spin-off that was just like its inspiration, only more science-fiction-oriented and also god-awful. Also, hosted by a badly computer animated sex robot for some reason.
Read MoreA can’t miss proposition—Neveldine/Taylor’s cyber-punk take on The Running Man—misses big time in one of the cranked-up duos many non-Crank duds.
Read MoreLovable Losers/Bad With Money Month gets off to a bit of a sleepy start with a look at Michael Ritchie’s muddled 1983 survivalist satire The Survivors, with Walter Matthau as a lovable everyman and Robin Williams as a right-wing gun nut/militia member. Its problems include casting Robin Williams as a right wing gun nut/militia member.
Read MoreOne of you generous weirdoes paid me to revisit the scorchingly sexy 1998 Neo-Noir Palmetto
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