“Moonlight Mile” is set in 1973, in the fictional town of Cape Anne, Mass.,
where a deranged man has murdered a young woman who was in a diner. The woman
had a fiance named Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal), loving parents named Ben and
JoJo Floss (Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon) and a promising future that was
tragically cut short. [...]
The fictional teen detective Nancy Drew entered the literary world in 1930, the stories penned by a variety of authors under the nom de guerre Carolyn Keene and continuing in writing, movies, and tube to this era. In 1938 the Drew stories earliest came to the big screen when Warner Bros. produced “Nancy Drew, [...]
Advance word around the diligence may have been that “Christopher Columbus: The Discovery” wasn’t seaworthy, but then again, B.O. pundits laughed at Chris himself until he come up with the Origin of All Wickets clandestinely in 1492. As it happens, John Glen’s belittle on the Genovese explorer adds up to totally functioning commercial entertainment–there are [...]
A middling thriller scripted by John and Penelope Mortimer (from Evelyn Piper’s novel) in which weary Inspector Olivier cruises a cameo-strewn London in search of Lynley’s mislaid (and just if possible non-existent) child, and Preminger characteristically nags away at the minor-pivotal ambiguities as if the investigation were unemotional sort of than criminal. A brief presence [...]
These days we tend to think of Rend Torn as a character actor, mostly involved in comic knotty-guy roles like those in “The Larry Sanders Eclipse,” “Men in Unspeakable,” “Dodgeball,” and “Zoom.” But the guy’s been throughout concerning a heck of a long previously, over fifty years in movies, and most of those years [...]
The major quandary with “Cheetah” is that there isn’t sufficient of this astounding animal, and all too much of us humans. Echoing “Born Disengage,” “Cheetah” never comes secretive to either the entertainment values or the emotional pull of that film.
It tells the story of yet another white family living temporarily in Africa, at a remote [...]
“Who could
completely resist a picture with Carmen Miranda having a bowl of fruit
on top of her head?”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
A silly MGM musical comedy directed without any passion by Robert
Z. Leonard, that is not as witty or well-acted as the 1940 film it remade–Deanna
Durban’s It’s A Date. It’s about a gold-digging mother (Ann Sothern)
and daughter [...]
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Two ends of the Mumbai social spectrum find their lives intersecting in “Taxi No. 9211,” a largely gripping drama about an ornery cab driver and a ruthless yuppie. Slickly mounted, high-concept fourth feature from helmer Milan Luthria (POW theatrics “Deewaar”) is refreshingly different from run-of-the-mill Bollywood, without considering occasionally taking a turn into the inconceivable, [...]
A fanatic-rape flick of unusually high technical ineptitude, even for this egregious species, which features Canada doubling as California and Cassavetes as the doctor trying to reveal the problem of just what is doing all those shower-curtain murders and inflicting such massive internal injuries on the female victims. We are indebted to The Monthly Fog [...]