Bilal falls short of a hero’s journey.
Plot: Set ten years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts. Review: A...
Released directly to video the same year the much bigger Jurassic Park exploded into theaters, Full Moon's cute, corny low budget family film Prehysteria! capitalized on the dino craze of the season and cashed in a quick buck in the home video market.
It came at the crux of the pop culture boom that celebrated Max Headroom, the buddy cop movie formula, and Saturday Night Live.
The Book of Birdie was a big surprise with wonderful visuals and stellar performances. Highly recommended.
A ‘cosmic connection’: Instant Family is a feel-good family movie that balances the hardships and horrors of parenthood with moments of humor and heart.
A witty and sometimes hilarious and knowing comedy from writer Elmore Leonard and director Barry Sonnenfeld, Get Shorty was exactly the correct next step for Travolta, whose knockout work with Tarantino in Pulp Fiction put him back on the fast track for a long, winning comeback.
An obvious homage to James Cameron's first two Terminator movies (there's even a scene where T2 is acknowledged), Kin operates on a small budget and has some grand implications in the science fiction genre, but it falls short in style and execution, as well as in the character department.
Although flawed I still had a good time with Bohemian Rhapsody and Rami Malek is a revelation. Definitely worth seeing on the big screen so you can get swept up in the classic songs. One of the best movies of the year.
Beautiful Boy is a dark and serious movie about addiction, so the casual viewer may not want to watch this movie, but it's worth seeing for the performances alone.