The Secretary (1995) – Director: Andrew Lane – 3/10 (very mediocre/bad)Well , there are movies about psychotic dentists and cops, why not psycho secretaries, I guess? The basic idea might not be necessarily all that bad in and of itself, nonetheless, the terrible rendition and very poor writing choices completely […]
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Memory Run (1995, aka Synapse) Director: Allan A. Goldstein – 4/10 (passable/mediocre)In spite of the intriguing premise, the flick ultimately fails to deliver in that the conceptual originality is not followed up by technical prowess or any outstanding scripting ingenuity. A large chunk of the material simply comes out pedestrian […]
Virtuosity (1995) Director: Brett Leonard – 5/10 (okay/decent)Regrettably, the flick completely fails to live up to its full potential by reason of getting stunted by its infuriatingly bromidic script, eventually succumbing to its action-oriented proclivities and devolving into yet another meaningless, otiose exercise in mainstream pop culture extravaganza. The primary […]
Mirage (1995) – Director: Paul Williams – 3/10 (very mediocre/bad) A paltry rip-off of Vertigo with not a whole lot of interesting features or differentiating factors other than its bewildering stupidity and Sean Young’s vexatious Irish accent perhaps. Not only does the motion picture ring hollow in the way it approaches […]
Five years after she won the Best Actress Academy Award for Misery, Kathy Bates was back on the big screen in another Stephen King adaption: Dolores Claiborne. To be sure this moody, flashback-heavy tale—which takes place in Maine beneath the shadow of a solar eclipse, is less in-your-face (and on […]
On October 23rd the Shout Select speciality home video label will be releasing a Collector’s Edition BluRay of Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1995 crime comedy GET SHORTY. Based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, the story is set in Hollywood where newly retired gangster and huge film buff Chili Palmer (John Travolta) […]
“A guy told me one time, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” – Neil McCauley Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller HEAT is my favorite film out of all his […]