The Academy Award for Best Picture of 1995 goes to....."Braveheart." Producer-director Mel Gibson ("The Man Without a Face" 1993) casts himself in the starring role as William Wallace, the 13th century warrior who leads Scotland on its First War of Independence against King Edward I of England. [..]

"Bandit" is a exciting crime drama film about a prison escapee who starts robbing banks to make ends meet. He is very successful, frustrating police, but is tenaciously pursued by one detective who is determined to bring him down. This true story is tightly directed by [..]

"Eraser" is the typical Arnold Schwarzeneggar picture: Loads of action covering up a plot filled with holes that still works as watchable entertainment. Arnold plays a marshal working for a government agency that "erases" high profile witnesses by faking their death. Director Chuck Russell ("The [..]

"Daylight" is a disaster film about the collapse of New York City's Holland Tunnel, trapping numerous people inside. Sylvester Stallone plays the hero who makes valiant attempts to rescue the endangered citizens. Though the movie offers nothing we haven't seen before, director Rob Cohen ("Dragon: The [..]

Producer-director Tim Burton ("Beetlejuice" 1988) recruited numerous big name actors to star in his hilarious science fiction comedy picture "Mars Attacks!" This spoof of 1950's scifi B films was expertly assembled by Burton with the screenplay by Jonathan Gems, based on some Topps trading cards that began [..]

Low-brow comedy fully describes the film "Feeling Minnesota." Inexperienced director-screenwriter Steven Baigelman did a terrible job on this box office bomb, propped up by money from producer Danny DeVito; the plot and storyline are not even worth describing here. Bad news for Jersey Films and Fine [..]

"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 [..]