Home for the Holidays (1995, Jodie Foster)
For the first thirty or so minutes, Home for the Holidays is exactly the film its trailer presented. It’s a genial family comedy with a recognizable cast, a mix of standard casting choices like Charles...
View ArticleAll Night Long (1981, Jean-Claude Tramont)
There’s a certain tragedy about All Night Long. Not the film’s story or anything, but the film itself. It’s a debacle–Barbara Streisand is unbelievably terrible and the cuts made to the film (twenty...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984, W.D. Richter)
Buckaroo Banzai‘s greatest contribution to cinema–well, if it didn’t get Peter Weller the Robocop role at least–is as a warning against trying to adapt authors like Thomas Pynchon to motion pictures....
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter)
Although Big Trouble in Little China takes place in modern day San Francisco and has a whole bunch of awesome special effects, it’s really just John Carpenter doing another Western. This time he’s...
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