"My Stepmother Is an Alien" is out-of-this-world escapist entertainment from director Richard Benjamin ("The Money Pit" 1986). Kim Basinger plays an alien who is sent to Earth to deal with disruption of her planet's gravity, caused by a scientist's experiments with radio waves sent into deep space. [..]

"Twins" is a buddy comedy film featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito playing twins who were separated at birth. A core element of the comedy is not only the physical contrast between the two, but the personality differences that include the streetwise DeVito and the intelligent but [..]

"Big Business" is a comedy film starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin, each playing two roles as sets of twins mismatched at birth. One set grew up in a wealthy New York City family, while the other two were reared in poverty-stricken West Virginia. Director Jim [..]

Director-screenwriter Terry Gilliam ("Monty Python and the Holy Grail" 1975) tries to create a motion picture based on the wartime exploits of a German nobleman against the Ottoman Empire. The supposed fantasy-adventure-comedy "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" fails to be a fantasy, an adventure, or a comedy. [..]

"Beetlejuice" is an unusual comedy film about a deceased couple who become ghosts haunting their own home. This early film by director Tim Burton ("Pee-wee's Big Adventure" 1985) has so many stupid situations from from the screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren that it is nothing [..]

"A Fish Called Wanda" is a quirky comedy heist movie from director Charles Crichton. It was successful at the box office and received wide critical acclaim, winning the Best Actor Oscar for star Kevin Kline. However, it is our view that "A Fish Called [..]

"Mystic Pizza" is a superior coming-of-age romantic drama-comedy starring Julia Roberts in her first box office hit. She is one of three young women working in a pizza restaurant, with their boyfriends and hopes for the future in tow. The screenplay by [..]

The star-studded crime drama "Tequila Sunrise" has both plusses and minuses. On the positive side, the film has three big-name stars in their prime and fantastic cinematography, which earned the picture's sole Oscar nomination for Conrad L. Hall. On the negative side [..]

Science fiction goes under the deep blue sea in "The Abyss." James Cameron ("The Terminator" 1984) directed and wrote the screenplay about the story of a SEAL team sent to rescue a U. S. nuclear submarine that sank in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean Sea. [..]

"Licence to Kill" is the sixteenth James Bond movie to be produced by Eon Productions. The quality of the 007 motion pictures is still high: Lots of action, great stunt work, exotic locals, and a fantastic screenplay by Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum which has [..]