1999 was such a loaded year for movies that “The Mummy” seemed like a middle-of-the-road entry among tentpole films, one last May appetizer – and
“Robin Hood: Men in Tights” (1993) was one of my regular rewatches as a kid, vastly more so than “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991),
Toward the end of its holding of the “Star Wars” license, Dark Horse Comics released a good chunk of the under-printed stories in a couple
Some have suggested Rob Reiner had the greatest five-film run of all time with “Stand by Me,” “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Misery”
The wide-audience crowd-pleaser “Splash” (1984) plays today like a homework assignment for a viewer going through the catalogs of director Ron Howard (his first hit)
Sue Grafton overlaps two high concepts in “G is for Gumshoe” (1990) but under-develops one of them, leading to a fizzle of an ending. In
“The Fly II” (1989) doesn’t need to exist, but in the category of “We’re going to make it anyway, in order to make money,” it’s
The spectacle of the best franchise superhero and action movies got to me in 2025, although I also sat through surprising misfires. I still surprised
“The Family Stone” (2005) piles strong actors onto the screen and allows them to interact in an overstuffed house at Christmastime. This metaphorical snowball fight
“The Holiday” (2006) has a large gap between screenplay quality and overall movie quality. It would be an interesting experiment for someone to read the