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 [..]

"Il Postino," or "The Postman" in English, is a haunting love story set in Italy in 1953. This is a story of a postman who learns to enjoy poetry from an exiled Chilean poet he delivers mail to. He uses his friend's poetry to woo a [..]

French director Luc Besson ("Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" 2017) put out an action picture called "Leon: The Professional." It is the story of a professional hitman who reluctantly takes a twelve-year-old girl under his wing when her family is murdered. [..]

"Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get." And so begins the tale of "Forrest Gump," winner of six Oscars including Best Picture of 1994. Tom Hanks also won the Academy's Best Actor award in the [..]

"J. Edgar" is a biopic motion picture about the life and career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Producer-director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black failed in their attempt to make a great movie due to poor production values like bad lighting, terrible makeup, a confusing [..]

"God's Country" is the story of an retired police woman from New Orleans who leaves the area after Hurricane Katrina and moves to a remote area of Montana, only to run into trouble when she confronts two hunters trespassing on her property. Producer-director Julian Higgins has a [..]