Foster on Film

This is a review of a “Fan Edit.”  Details of the original film, including twists and the ending,  may be revealed. Constantine is a so-so action-horror film that has uninvolving action and nothing particularly frightening. It’s emotionally distant, with a recycled plot and underwritten characters. Its star, Keanu Reeves, based his interpretation of John Constantine

Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly) runs a small club where he performs with his girl Rusty (Rita Hayworth) and best friend Genius (Phil Silvers), as well as six chorus girls.  He’s a firm believer that the only way to “make it big” is slowly, through hard work, and he also likes to keep Rusty close at

A year after Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiancée were murdered, Eric is brought back from the grave to act as an avenging spirit.  However, the city’s crime boss, Top Dollar (Michael Wincott), wants to steal Eric’s power and only police Sergeant Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) can help the ghost. This review is going to

This is a review of a “Fan Edit.”  Details of the original film, including twists and the ending,  may be revealed. For anyone outside of the goth subculture, The Crow is primarily known for the death of Brandon Lee. The son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee was shot and killed in a stunt gone

Amy (Ann Carter), the daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed (Kent Smith, Jane Randolph), is a lonely and overly imaginative child.  With no friends, she wishes for one, and Irena, the ghost of Oliver’s first wife, appears.  Amy also meets an old, pleasant, but mentally unstable neighbor (Julia Dean), who is cared for by a

Efficiency expert Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) is secretly hired to computerize a research department run by the brilliant Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn).  As Bunny worries about her boyfriend’s unwillingness to commit and the possible loss of jobs due to the computer, she finds herself drawing closer and closer to Richard. Quick Review: This is a

New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) when terrorists, lead by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), take over the building she works in.  It is up to McClane to save his wife and get out alive. There are a lot of action films out there, most with poor acting,

Once again on Christmas, John McClane (Bruce Willis), finds himself battling terrorists in order to protect his wife.  This time, he stumbles into them at the airport where they are trying to free a South American Fascist leader. Quick Review: It is unfair to compare the sequel to the original Die Hard, but I just

With The Doctor (David Tennant) in a coma after a difficult regeneration, Rose (Billie Piper) returns to Earth in the TARDIS at Christmastime.  Unfortunately, the alien Sycorax have also arrived, with plans to conquer the planet.  With The Doctor sidelined, and lesser aliens after his body, Rose is helpless and afraid, and the new Prime

Sledding in the snow, Donald Duck (Clarence Nash, who does all voices) purposely destroys Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s snowman.  The boys decide to fight back and it escalates to a wild snowball fight.  7 min. This isn’t really a Christmas film, but it is a winter one, and is generally shown at Christmastime.  Disney packages

Emma (BBC – 1972) Emma (1996) Emma (A&E – 1996) Clueless (1995) Emma Woodhouse, a child of privilege, is so proud of her successful matchmaking of her ex-nanny to respectable Mr. Weston that she sets out to find partners for the other inhabitants of her small town.  She adopts Harriet Smith, a girl of lesser

Tevye (Topol) is a poor milkman in a tradition-bound Jewish village in early twentieth century Russia.  As he and his neighbors attempt to ignore the ever-changing world, his three daughters, Tzeitel (Rosalind Harris), Hodel (Michele Marsh), and Chava (Neva Small), bring home just how much the old ways are fading as each makes her own