3,000 MILES TO GRACELAND: Crime drama. Starring Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner,
Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, Kevin Pollak, David Arquette. Directed by
Demian Lichtenstein. (R. 120 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
American pop culture ought to be fun, but it sinks further into the trash
heap with “3,000 Miles to Graceland,” an overstuffed, underfed numbskull movie
starring Kurt Russell and Kevin [...]
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Farewell, Cosy Sweetmeat Home directed by Otar Iosseliani is a stylistically harmonious ‘ French comedy involving a series of interconnected stories in and here Paris.
The film has a loose plot that features a series of characters such as a rich young man who would rather hang around with street ruffians, a young attractive woman who [...]
A lesser Elvis moving picture that degree breaks away from the usual method, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The Crowned head as a country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle. Most Elvis movies after about 1960 were vehicles built around his forte and reasonable charm, but this was adapted from an (apparently) hot [...]
“Nothing is what it seems.” And while that strand from “The Recruit” is intended to tantalize, all it does is telegraph. What could (or should) have been a thriller turns at large to be merely an exercise–both literally and figuratively. It’s a cat-and-mouse large screen with one felonious-minded feline and a organization of clueless mice.
“The [...]
“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 [...]