Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Walt Becker Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson Yet another teen movie? National Lampoon returns to the world of fraternity house parties and the wild antics of university students for the first time since the cult favourite Animal House (1978), which then set the standard for sophomoric teen comedies.… Continue Reading »
VANILLA SKY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Cameron Crowe Stars: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Timothy Spall, Jason Lee, Kurt Russell, Tilda Swinton, Noah Taylor. A remake of the Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky is a bewildering, existential sci-fi thriller that will be mainly remembered as the film that… Continue Reading »
VERTICAL LIMIT
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Martin Campbell Stars: Chris O’Donnell, Robin Tunney, Bill Paxton, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorpurio, Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Taylor, Steve Le Marquand, Temeura Morrison, Stuart Wilson. Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, The Mask Of Zorro, etc) is quickly building a reputation as a director of exciting, action yarns. His latest film Vertical Limit takes… Continue Reading »
VERY BAD THINGS
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Peter Berg Stars: Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Daniel Stern, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Jeremy Piven, Leland Orser, Joey Zimmerman, Tyle Malinger, Russell B McKenzie, Lawrence Pressman. While Very Bad Things shares a similar moral to A Simple Plan, it is ultimately a vastly different film. This grim black comedy looks… Continue Reading »
VEGAS VACATION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephen Kessler Stars: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Randy Quaid, Wayne Newton, Sid Caesar, Wallace Shawn,Christie Brinkley The very thought of the Griswold clan, America’s most hapless and naive family of holiday makers, venturing into the neon lit playground of America’s gambling Mecca for a week long… Continue Reading »