A
new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one
drawback: some people return no longer human. Can two college drop-outs
save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?
This horror-comedy is wildly imaginative and made with evident talent, but it's hopelessly incoherent, unfunny and not really that exiting.
Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that
claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
This movie's slickly made with excellent performances, but such a sober, unexcited depiction of the events, it doesn't reveal more than the facts already known.
A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed
home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his
frustration.
Good, committed drama exposes the moral twists you need to take to survive in a corrupt system, with Michael Shannon introducing another variety of a villain personality.
A mother's haunting dreams lead her to another place, another time, and a mysterious past.
Nicely produced TV drama which offers some very good period details in the Ireland flashbacks, but is overly sentimental - and speculative concerning the topic of reincarnation.
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Drawn-out, but never boring and always touching buddy story, the movie
manages to revive some old and almost forgotten Hollywood virtues,
basically an interesting story well told.
On renewed viewing: Still agree with my old assessment, a modern-day fairy tale.
Halliwell*: "A melodrama of wasted lives and male bonding with a twist ending, more enjoyable for the performances than the narrative, which veers unpredictably between toughness and sentimentality."
Maltin**1/2: "Widely praised film is well crafted but terribly overlong, and (like much of Stephen King's non-horror writing) hollow and predictable."
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