An annoying teen (Omri Katz), who dislikes Halloween because the script says so, accidentally resurrects the witchy Sanderson sisters Winifred, Mary, and Sarah (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker). With the aid of his obnoxious little sister (a prepubescent Thora Birch), and a love interest who’s only along for the ride, he must stop
Johnny Case (Cary Grant), a dreamer in the midst of a very promising business deal, becomes engaged to Julia Seton (Doris Nolan), not knowing she’s an heiress with a very proper, old-school father (Henry Kolker). Neither father nor daughter is aware of Johnny’s unorthodox plan to make a bit of money and then quit for
After he loses a girl to his partner, Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire), song man Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby) quits the business to run an Inn which will only be open on holidays. He hires singer-dancer Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds) for his shows, and the two are quickly a romantic item. But Ted is dumped and
A green creature (Jim Carrey), abused as a child and publicly humiliated recently, takes his revenge upon the shallow residents of Whoville by stealing all of their Christmas presents and decorations. If, while watching the 1966 animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you thought, “this isn’t bad, but what it really needs is
In this variation on A Christmas Carol, Christmas hating Allen Karroll (Tom Everett Scott) is accidentally visited by the three spirits of Christmas (Alanna Ubach, Larry Miller, Verne Troyer) who are supposed to be working on the miser next door. Quick Review: Unlike Scrooged, Karroll’s Christmas actually has a clever and twisted idea that has the
At Christmastime, Detective Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) is hired by magazine editor and femme fatale Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find her boss’s (Leon Ames) wife, in the hopes that the wife has done something illegal and Fromsett can take her place. Marlowe follows the trail to Chris Lavery (Dick Simmons), the wife’s supposed boyfriend,
Smalltime racetrack hustler, the Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope) must raise $10,000 before Christmas to pay back a gangster. He tricks the lesser criminals of New York city into gathering the money for him as street-corner Santas. If there is a valid complaint against Bob Hope’s comedy shtick, it’s that it is repetitious. He told more-or-less
A Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) has his gold stolen and he is stuck in a crate for ten years due to the power of a four leaf clover. After Tory Reding (Jennifer Aniston) and her father move into the house, a childlike house painter frees the Leprechaun who will kill everyone between him and his gold. This
One thousand years ago, the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) was cheated out of his bride. Now, he has come for the descendent of that long ago girl. Ah, that’s a bit better. The Leprechaun series started in the depths, but part 2 is entertaining, if nothing to get excited about. It really isn’t a sequel. Sure, it has Warwick Davis
This sixth installment of the Leprechaun franchise has a group of poor twenty-somethings from “tha Hood” finding the Leprechaun’s gold under a building site. They spend the gold and try to work out their relationships while the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) kills anyone between him and his coins. Quick Review: Six Leprechaun movies. I never thought when I
Kyle (Ryan Merriman), who is unbeknownst to him, a half leprechaun on his mother’s side, has his lucky charm stolen by an evil far darrig (Timothy Omundson) who plans to use the luck to become king of all leprechauns. Without the charm, Kyle and his family begin reverting to their faerie appearance (pointed ears, beards,