Harper kicks off with a terrific introduction to its title character, a badass detective, played by the one and only Paul Newman. He wakes up with a massive hangover, so he fills the sink with ice cubes and cold water and sticks his head in it. Then he goes to make coffee and discovers he doesn’t have any coffee grounds. So what does he do? He ( Read more... )

Jack wants to be left alone. He just wants to eat (at his favorite diner) and sleep in peace. When he falls asleep on his bed and someone asks him what he wants to do, he barks, “I’m doing it!” This is my kind of guy ( Read more... )

The story of the making of Hell’s Angels is probably better known than the movie itself. Director Howard Hughes worked for three years on it, pouring much of his own money into the project to cover the then-astronomical budget of three million dollars. When stunt pilots refused to perform some of the daring aerial stunts featured in the film, ( Read more... )

Rob Corddry and his pregnant wife (Leslie Bibb) move into a dumpy old house that is obviously haunted. It doesn’t take any time at all for her to start acting weird (like drinking paint thinner). After a lot of supernatural goings-on, two priests with Father Guido Sarducci accents (writer/directors Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon) arrive on ( Read more... )

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It’s kind of a sign of greatness when one of your favorite filmmakers makes a movie and you don’t even know how to feel about it. My pendulum has been swinging on this one for a while, which is why I’ve been shying away from (OK… avoiding) writing something about it. Every time I think I have a handle on my thoughts, I think of something else ( Read more... )

I took my daughter to the theater to see Hotel Transylvania 2 a while back and we both really enjoyed it. Because of that, I picked this one up for her on DVD. Although she apparently loves it even more than the first one (she’s watched it over and over again), it kinda left me cold ( Read more... )

Elias Koteas plays a desperate bellhop who has to take care of his childlike brother. He’s also in love with a hooker (Laure Marsac) who works out of the hotel and is in debt to her pimp (Kevin J. O’Connor). To square things, Koteas assists in helping him rob a big time poker game taking place in the hotel. Naturally, things go sour, people wind ( Read more... )

Hunter is an ultra-low budget actioner written, produced, and starring Ron Becks as the title character. It also features such genre favorites as Laurene (Hundra) Landon, Kristine (Alice in Wonderland XXX) DeBell, and George (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) Lazenby in supporting roles. If you want to see these fine folks cash a paycheck and ( Read more... )

Very few things in a movie’s opening credits make me as happy as seeing the words “With Eric Roberts as Dracula” pop up. Dracula, as it turns out, is the host of a horror-themed reality show. The funny thing about this is they never confirm or deny if Roberts is supposed to be the real Dracula or not. Whether he is or isn’t the real Dracula, at ( Read more... )