Herbert Ross’ political drama True Colors has a weak screenplay, humdrum direction, and a white-guy-sax musical score that refuses to ever end, but its two lead performances almost manage to save it. Almost, but not quite. Peter Burton (John Cusack) and Tim Garrity … Continue reading REVIEW: True Colors (1991)
Kleinman (Woody Allen) is forcibly woken in the middle of the night by an angry mob, demanding he join them in tracking down a serial killer. Meanwhile the sword-swallower (Mia Farrow) at a local circus leaves her unfaithful clown boyfriend … Continue reading REVIEW: Shadows and Fog (1991)
Anya (Meg Ryan) is an orphaned young woman in 1920s Russia who is drawn into a scheme to impersonate the missing princess Anastasia and defraud her grandmother. In 1988 Don Bluth’s film The Land Before Time had been an international smash hit, … Continue reading REVIEW: Anastasia (1997)
In 48 BCE Huo An (Jackie Chan) leads a special squad of soldiers patrolling the Chinese border. When his team is implicated in a gold smuggling operation they are exiled to the isolated border post of Wild Geese Gate. There … Continue reading REVIEW: Dragon Blade (2015)
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