A group of peasant actors, including the blustering Nick Bottom (Kevin Kline), and four mixed-up lovers (Anna Friel, Calista Flockhart, Dominic West, Christian Bale) end up as pawns in a fight between faerie royalty (Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett) on midsummer night. Lust. Lots and lots of lust. That’s what A Midsummer Night’s Dream is about. That and
It’s not the mystery, or the emotional impact, or the philosophical theme that make this film a pleasure, as it has none of those. It’s the humor. This is a movie to laugh at (not with), and occasionally just to stare at in disbelief.
Sleazy promoter Max O’Hara (Robert Armstrong) travels to a stage-bound Africa in search of special acts for his new nightclub. He finds Mighty Joe Young, a giant gorilla, and his teenaged human friend, Jill Young (Terry Moore). With a little fancy talking, he persuades Jill to come to America where he uses her and Joe
Bill Smith (Kris Kristofferson), an airplane crash investigator, is perplexed to find Nobel Prize winning scientist Arnold Mayer (Daniel J. Travanti) at a recent crash site, as well as several anomalies in the wreckage. He also meets Louise Baltimore (Cheryl Ladd), an attractive, but bizarre flight attendant. What he doesn’t know is that Louise is
Theo (Tom Hardy), the son of the tribal elder (Rutger Hauer), chooses to be one of the sacrifices required every five years of their village. He and the other “youths” travel to the capitol where King Deucalion (Tony Todd) casts them into the catacombs to be killed by the half-god minotaur. But Theo has his
Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins), the parade organizer for Cole’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, hires an unknown jolly old man (Richard Attenborough) as a replacement for their drunken Santa Claus, first for the parade, and then for the department store. The problem is, he thinks he is Santa, and as he tries to bring a bit of
Biopic of Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit. Miss Potter (Renée Zellweger), an upper-class, thirty-two-year-old spinster, bucks social norms by rejecting unappealing suitors, instead working on her stories and watercolor art of anthropomorphized animals. Although London publishers are uninterested in her book, it is accepted by the Warne brothers, who assign it to their younger brother,
Super agent and all around swell guy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has given up field work with the Impossible Mission Force in favor of instructing, and lying to his fiancée, Julia (Michelle Monaghan)—but she doesn’t have enough personality to talk about, so lets forget about her. When cute-as-a-bug agent Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell) is captured
Near-sighted Mister Magoo (Jim Backus) arrives late at the theater, but they’ve held the show for him since he is the star. It’s a musical production of A Christmas Carol, and Magoo is Scrooge. Once Dickens’s story begins, it’s the old tale we know so well, told relatively straight. 53 min. Mister Magoo’s shtick, of
At a piano recital by the accomplished Anthony Lawrence (Ralph Morgan), Mad scientist Dr. Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish) spies Lawrence’s daughter (Wanda McKay). Obsessed with her similarity to his dead wife, he injects Lawrence with the disfiguring acromegaly disease as leverage to force her to marry him. Quick Review: One of the more distasteful
A young woman is found murdered in Louisiana, with bite wounds. The Sheriff (David Janssen) searches for the killer from his short list of suspects: the woman’s brother, a strange rustic, the doctor who made her pregnant, the rich land owner (Bradford Dillman), and his sister (Barbara Rush). Made originally for broadcast TV, I had