Reviews

Abrahams and co-writer Pat Proft have a crafted a perfect take-off the movie Rambo: First Blood Part Two, though the film does provide some clever winks at films like Casablanca,Basic Instinct, No Way Out, Lady and the Tramp, and a beautifully executed shot at Apocalypse Now that had me on the floo...

His screenplay is all over the place, presenting what is initially a buddy picture about two boxers but we know we're in trouble when we get this detailed backstory flashbacks that document how Vince and Cesar's careers took such dramatic falls, but the stories have nothing to do with how Vince and ...

After Barack picks Michelle up, we watch her steam when she learns that the meeting is later and that he told her it was earlier so that they could engage socially, which she considers completely inappropriate and the rest of the story consists of Barack working very hard to get Michelle to stop fig...

Taylor spends the majority of her screen time with Louis Jourdan, who is appropriate as Champselle, but it goes without saying that he never creates the chemistry with Taylor that Burton does, but the part of this story that works is Taylor's character, who is literally in love with both of these m...

I found it amusing that this character didn't spend five minutes of screen time with a smile on her face but still managed to provide major laughs, not to mention her uncanny ability to keep a straight face with a master of physical comedy like Hope, who got a lot of laughs in this movie without utt...

The Granddaddy of all romantic comedies is the 1934 classic It Happened one Night, a sparkling adult comedy that not only inspired a lot of future cinema but was the first film to win all five top honors at the 1935 Oscar ceremony, including Best Picture.

The film won six Oscars, including Best Picture and as good as I thought this movie was, was it really better than A Streetcar Named Desire or A Place in the Sun?

On the other hand, there is a contradictory theme in the story that no matter how many lies you tell and no matter how powerful they make you, that power is meaningless if you're ugly, which seems to be more of a personal jab Gervais might be making at Hollywood's treatment of him rather than a pure...

Surprisingly, this is where this film seems to become very melodramatic...the writing becomes pretentious and the camerawork becomes simplistic, spoonfeeding the audience on who the good guys are and who the Nazis are, but until then it's a riveting journey and the hook of the film unfolding in flas...

More than anything else, this film is a triumph for Tim Burton, effortlessly displaying the skill it takes to bring together all the elements of a film and have them gel into a piece of entertainment that is nothing short of magical.