During my boyhood, cowboys and Indians were all the rage. TV was festooned with westerns. I remember pretending to be one or the other day in and day out. So […]
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
The residents of many nursing homes are placed into a passive mode. They are subject to the whims and vagaries of services provided by others. When they decide to become […]
Love Stinks (1999)
Have you ever done an Elvis impersonation? Did you try doing the voice? Or maybe got gussied up in a similar jumpsuit? The sneer is something most try. Well, Chelsea […]
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Denial in the face of overwhelming evidence is not a smart position to take, particularly when it could affect whether you die. Barry Cox (Ryan Phillippe) gets run down by […]
Federal Protection (2002)
Some folks get blinded by greed. They can’t see what they have stepped into due to the green glare. Bootsie Cavander (Dina Meyer) and Leigh’s (Angela Featherstone) unfaithful husband Dennis […]
Hard Luck (2006)
Sometimes a concept just beggars the imagination. Cybill Shepherd as a serial killer is one of them. She and her accomplice make a gallant effort to come across as killers […]
Never Look Back (1996)
Sometimes help appears from the most unlikely sources. Jill Kendall (Nicole Freeman) is in Miami after fleeing an abusive boyfriend and her unsupportive parents, when she drops by a cabaret […]
Constantine (2005)
The struggle between Heaven and Hell, light and dark, good and evil goes on all around us, invisible to most. It seems that those above and those below have entered […]
Billy Elliot (2000)
There have been a number of times when, faced with a decision to make, I’ve chosen an alternative on nothing more than intuition. In retrospect, they have usually been the […]