The Jewel of the Nile is a sequel to the 1984 romantic adventure Romancing the Stone featuring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, the stars of the first film. Released in 1985, it sends their characters off on a new adventure in a fictional Middle Eastern desert, in an effort to find the precious [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
The Last Temptation of Christ is a 1988 film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the controversial 1960 novel of the same name by Nikos Kazantzakis. It stars Willem Dafoe as Jesus Christ, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate, and Harry Dean [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
Saints and Soldiers is a war film released by Excel Entertainment Group, a Mormon film company in August, 2004. The movie is about a small group of soldiers who are trapped deep behind enemy lines following the infamous Malmedy massacre that took place during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge. The soldiers have vital [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. It was directed by Adrian Lyne. The film was adapted by James Dearden and Nicholas [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 is a 1996 American animated film, and a sequel to United Artists’s 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven. It is directed by Larry Leker and Paul Sabella, and features the voices of Charlie Sheen, Sheena Easton, Dom DeLuise and George Hearn. The film was released on March [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) is an American stand-up comedy film directed by Robert Townsend and starring Eddie Murphy. It was Murphy’s second feature stand-up video, following Eddie Murphy Delirious. The 90 minute show was filmed in New York City’s Felt Forum, the venue in the Madison Square Garden complex now called The WaMu Theater at [...]
Published on: 13th May, 2009
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag. In order to pay off his debts, he and [...]
Published on: 8th May, 2009
The film Johnny Dangerously is a 1984 comedy spoof of 1930s’ crime/gangster movies directed by Amy Heckerling. The movie stars Michael Keaton as an honest, goodhearted man who is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother’s skyrocketing medical bills and to put his younger brother through law school. The [...]
Published on: 8th May, 2009
Mad Dog and Glory is a 1993 film written by Richard Price and directed by John McNaughton. It stars Robert De Niro as a Chicago crime scene investigator (ironically nicknamed “Mad Dog” by his colleagues because of his timidity), Uma Thurman as bartender “Glory” (in debt to her boss), and Bill Murray as Glory’s boss, [...]
Published on: 8th May, 2009
The Manhattan Project was an American film released on June 13, 1986. Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film’s underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and [...]