Black Beauty
July 29, 1994| There have been many other film and TV versions of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell’s much-loved tale of a noble horse and the people who gallop in and out…
Beetlejuice
March 30, 1988| Three years ago, director Tim Burton startled audiences with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, a brightly-painted swirl of cartoonish lunacy. But now it’s clear that bizarre comedy was a mere…
Dave
May 7, 1993| If filmmaker Frank Capra had never existed, film critics would have had to invent him, if only to describe a particular type of savvy, satirical but basically soft-hearted…
Dick
August 4, 1999 | What was the Committee to Re-Elect the President? Why were people so concerned about an 18 ½-minute gap on a White House audiotape? How did G. Gordon…
The Phantom
June 6, 1996 | After wading through the angst of three doom-and-gloom Batman movies, wouldn't you like to see a masked superhero who enjoys his work? Who actually thinks battling bad…
I Am Vegenace: Retaliation
OK, a quick show of hands: How many of you actually knew there was a movie titled I Am Vegeance released in 2018? Wow, that many? Well, that’s probably why…
The Ice Harvest
November 23, 2005 | It’s the night before Christmas, and all through Wichita, mob-connected lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is making all the wrong moves. He’s a bit too generous…
Bringing Out The Dead
October 22, 1999 | Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the walking-wounded protagonist of Bringing Out the Dead, is a New York City paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen.…
Sexy Beast
June 13, 2001 | During the opening minutes of the smashing new movie called Sexy Beast, we see a beefy, middle-aged bloke – quite obviously, not the title character – sunning…
Nobody’s Fool
January 13, 1995 | What is Nobody’s Fool all about? Nothing in particular and everything that matters. How is Paul Newman in the lead role? He doesn’t appear to do anything…