Years have passed since Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) succeeded to the leadership of the family. Never having wanted to be a mobster in the first places, he’s gradually moved almost entirely (and very successfully) into legitimate businesses, meanwhile making a … Continue reading
The hero of this computer-animated comic western is a former pet lizard turned sheriff of a desert town populated by all sorts of animals (not just those you’d expect to see in a desert). The plot has fun with western … Continue reading
By way of summary I can’t do better than Pinker’s own opening paragraph: “This book is about what may be the most important thing that has ever happened in human history. Believe it or not—and I know that most people … Continue reading
It’s Paris in the late 1920s and young Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden passageways of a Paris train station whose clocks he maintains. That’s supposed to be his uncle’s job, but when Hugo was orphaned, his father’s brother saw … Continue reading
Here’s yet another in a series of movies I’ve seen over the past few months based on or inspired by Jane Austen’s most popular novel. This one is a reasonably straightforward adaptation that features some extraordinarily beautiful photography and a … Continue reading
The original Flesh Gordon was a 1974 soft-core Flash Gordon parody with not-so-great acting and a not-so-great script, but the production values were surprisingly high for a naughty movie, with decent sets and a fair amount of Harryhausen-style stop-motion animation. … Continue reading
A wealthy Haitian plantation owner has fallen instantly in love with a beautiful young woman he’s just met. Unfortunately for him, she’s just about to get married to a handsome young man in the next day or so in a … Continue reading
A lonely, good-hearted college student named Rusty (Oren Skoog) has finally found a girlfriend on the Internet, a gorgeous young lady who lives in Romania, where her father heads a university. As the film begins, Rusty is emailing her good … Continue reading
This is a film pretty much everyone interested in film history has heard of even if they’ve never seen it all the way through. What most of us know is that it was supposed to have been tremendously important and … Continue reading
Reese Witherspoon is an overworked emergency room doctor in San Francisco with no social life. Her sister invites her to dinner to meet a supposed nice guy, but driving there, after over 24 hours on duty, she gets into a … Continue reading