"Groundhog Day" is a fantasy-comedy film about a man who gets caught in a time loop at the February 2 Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. The movie seems repetitive and monotonous for a while, but does come to a conclusion with a good moral message, thanks [..]

Producer Lorne Michaels failed to achieve lift-off with a feature length motion picture version of his "Saturday Night Live" "Coneheads" skits. Poor direction by Steve Barron ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" 1990) and even worse writing by Tom Davis, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, and Dan Aykroyd sealed the [..]

"In the Name of the Father" is the true story of four people falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Producer-director Jim Sheridan ("My Left Foot" 1989), who also co-wrote the screenplay with Terry George, guided the film smoothly enough but which [..]

"Anyone But You" is a romantic comedy loosely based on William Shakespeare's 1599 play "Much Ado About Nothing." Director Will Gluck ("Friends With Benefits" 2011) has put together an entertaining story about a couple with an on-again/off-again relationship which is exacerbated by attempted manipulations by family and [..]

The Best Picture of 1993 is....."Schindler's List," an epic historical drama from producer-director Steven Spielberg that tells the true story of a German businessman who saved the lives of some 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his manufacturing plant. Spielberg and screenwriter Steven Zaillian [..]

A good example of a bad movie that makes for great entertainment is "The Specialist." Director Luis Llosa ("Snipper" 1993) and screenwriter Alexandra Seros put together this poorly written and sloppily directed story about two CIA operatives out to "eliminate" a drug dealer, but which also [..]

"Dumb and Dumber" accurately describes this buddy comedy film from director Peter Farrelly in his motion picture debut. The story has two well meaning and not so bright friends on a road trip from Providence, Rhode Island, to Aspen, Colorado, delivering a briefcase full of cash to [..]

"The Client" is a fast moving, well-paced, complex legal thriller from director Joel Schumacher ("St. Elmo's Fire" 1985). The screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Robert Getchell is a good adaptation of the 1993 novel by John Girsham. At the center of the [..]

"Legends of the Fall" attempts to be an epic motion picture about an immigrant family in the American West of the early 1900's. Instead, this beautifully photographed film disintegrates into cliche movie themes, hollow morality, and excessive melodrama. Credit goes to over-direction by Edward Zwick ("About [..]

"Star Trek Generations" completes the transition in the movie series from the cast of the original 1960's TV show to "The Next Generation" stars of the 1980's. William Shatner, James Doohan, and Walter Keonig join Patrick Stewart and his crew in another exciting "Star Trek" story about [..]