Hollywood at its worst is exemplified in the romantic-comedy crime-drama "Gigli." Producer-director-screenwriter Martin Brest ("Scent of a Woman" 1992) presided over a film that has terrible writing, bad acting, virtually no production values, and lousy chemistry between the two stars, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. [..]

"The Reagans" is a high quality drama about President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy Davis Reagan. Director Robert Allan Ackerman was professional at the helm of this look into the life of the 40th U. S. President, with James Brolin and Judy Davis believable as the First [..]

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team up for the umpteenth time together in "Out to Sea." Their patented comedic style of friends constantly clashing on screen that began with "The Odd Couple" (1968) continues with this film, capably directed by Martha Coolidge ("Valley Girl" 1983) and also [..]

David Spade plays a former child star who has faded from public view and tries to make a come-back in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." Director Sam Weisman ("George of the Jungle" 1997), producer Adam Sandler, and screenwriters Fred Wolf and David Spade created a comedy with [..]

"Fool Proof" is a heist film directed and written by Canadian filmmaker William Phillips, who failed to create an interesting or entertaining movie that audiences would pay money to view. This film was a flop at the box office in Canada and with critics. The story [..]

"The Merchant of Venice" is director-screenwriter Michael Radford's loose adaptation of Bill Shakespeare's famous play. Radford took so many liberties with the Bard's stage show (written between 1596 and 1598) that the movie is almost unrecognizable. As far as we know, this is the only feature [..]

"Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" is a documentary film about the 1974 kidnapping of socialite Patty Hearst by a leftist group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. Director Robert Stone expertly strung together stock news footage that featured interviews with Hearst's parents, SLA members, law enforcement officials, [..]

"The Forgotten" is a terrible science fiction psychological thriller about a woman who lost her son in a plane crash, only to be informed by her husband one year later that he never existed. All physical evidence of her son has vanished. The thin storyline by [..]

"Millions" is the story of an eight-year-old boy who finds a large bag of money and decides to give much of it away to the poor. Director Danny Boyle ("Slumdog Millionaire" 2008) has good intentions for this project but looses something in the execution. The moving [..]

"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" tells the unusual story of a couple who break up and go through a procedure to erase each other from their memories. Director Michael Gondry ("Dave Chapelle's Block Party" 2005) had some inconsistencies in the storyline, which affected the movie's continuity, [..]