"The Cable Guy" is no doubt the worst film Jim Carrey ever appeared in. The dark themes (including stalking), uneven plot lines, and unfunny dialogue plague this movie, due to just plain bad directing by Ben Stiller ("Reality Bites" 1994) and terrible writing by Lou Holtz Jr. [..]

Gwyneth Paltrow is definitely in her element as matchmaker Emma Woodhouse in director-screenwriter Douglas McGrath's "Emma." McGrath is faithful to the 1815 novel by Jane Austin in his debut at the helm of a motion picture for theatrical release. Good production values abound, proof being the [..]

Barbara Streisand continues her self-indulgent style of filmmaking with "The Mirror Has Two Faces." In her third producer-director attempt, Streisand casts herself in yet another ugly-duckling-turns-herself-into-a-beauty vehicle that admittedly has great production values. Fantastic music (by Marvin Hamlisch and herself), great sets (indoor and outside), wonderful [..]

A revisit to the television series "Dallas" after a five year absence is the subject of the CBS television movie "Dallas: J. R. Returns." Most of the cast from the final year of 1991 are reassembled here, along with producer-director-teleplay writer Leonard Katzman. (He passed [..]

The "Star Trek" film franchise keeps humming along at warp speed with the eighth in the series. "Star Trek: First Contact" features Jean-Luc Picard's Enterprise traveling back in time to the 21st Century to prevent the Borg from interfering with human civilization's first contact with alien species, [..]

"The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas" is an entertaining made-for-television movie that does provide some laughs, and is a faithful to the series that ran on CBS for three seasons (1964-1966). Director Ian Emes and teleplay authors Ed Ferrera and Kevin Murphy did a passable job constructing this [..]

There have been many movies made about show business over the years, but few have been as revealing as "The Late Shift." This HBO original motion picture shows the behind the scenes maneuvering and jockeying to replace Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show." [..]

The Best Picture of 1996 is....."The English Patient," a romantic drama telling the story of an English soldier laying in a hospital during World War II recounting his life story in flashbacks. Director-screenwriter Anthony Minghella ("Mr. Wonderful" 1993) did an excellent job of piecing together the man's [..]

"Lifeboat" is a film about eight people on a lifeboat who are struggling to survive after the ship they were on was sunk by a German U-boat during World War II. The tensions escalate when they bring aboard a survivor of the German boat. This was [..]

"Cop Land" is a suspense-filled, noir crime drama movie about a small town sheriff in northern New Jersey who must ignore the corruption of many of the NYPD officers who reside there, until he is approached for help from an internal affairs investigator from New York City. [..]