JOHN Q. (PG-13)
Good intentions aside, “John Q.” is a heavy-handed drama about the horrors of HMO’s, an easy target for anyone who has had to deal with one. No one likes insurance companies and HMO’s, so it’s easy to rally the troops. Read the rest of this entry »
Ah, to be young, stupid, and horny. Never a good combination while looking for sex in all the wrong places. Just ask Americans Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and Josh (Derek Richardson), college buddies in Amsterdam looking for hot sex and legal drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
1997 may have come and gone, but Hollywood is still putting out the trash from last year. Last year, the disaster genre was revived (and immediately killed) by such entries as “Volcano,” “Dante’s Peak,” “Turbulence,” and “Speed 2: Cruise Control.” Mountains gurgled, planes crashed, and ocean liners became floating death traps. Read the rest of this entry »
When not solving murders in Tinseltown, Detective Joe Gavilan and his rookie partner Kasey Calden both moonlight in other fields: Gavilan sells real estate (poorly), and Calden aspires to become an actor (Brando, namely). Assigned to the vicious in-club slaying of a promising young rap act, the two detective delve into the recording industry where they hope to find answers - ideally ones that also come with property buyers or auditions. Read the rest of this entry »
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman. Read the rest of this entry »
Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they’re there Read the rest of this entry »
A lot of films come and go at the box office so quickly that they have little time to make an impact. Most of them deserve their quick and painless death. Others deserve a look see, while a handful just seem to get lost in the shuffle. “Dangerous Beauty” is one of those films that came and went so quickly most people don’t even know it exists, which is a sad thing because the film is one of the year’s best. Read the rest of this entry »
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled Read the rest of this entry »