cpchrist (Level 24)

Just as Jason Voorhees 's presence is always tipped off by the now infamous "ch-ch-ch,huh-huh-huh" of the Friday the 13th movies, viewers of Maniac will soon become familiar with and creeped out (if not terrified by) the heavy breathing of Frank Vito.  Vito, portrayed by Joe Spinell (who also co-wrote ...

...you like Dirty Harry, you like Clint Eastwood, you like guns, or all three.  If one or all of these are true, I don't know how you haven't watched Magnum Force yet.  It definitely falls short of the iconic original, but this 1973 sequel is an entertaining Harry Callahan adventure, ...

...except for the occasional outburst of violence so efficiently brutal it makes you crack a smile.  That these powerfully visceral scenes occur within a film essentially devoid of nearly any other action (basically, the characters in Valhalla Rising meet each other, take a boat through fog, and die at their ...

Or is it just nostalgia?  I haven't seen Aladdin in probably 15 years, and I really have no desire to see it again.  I remember enjoying it immensely, and I fear that watching it again would expose flaws that my obviously older, more critical eye would notice, flaws that would ...

...and I still wanted my money back.  The problems start almost immediately, when Angelina Jolie is introduced as Alexander's (played by Colin Farrell, who is less than a year younger than Jolie) mother.  I know Angela Lansbury pulled off a similar feat of motherhood-despite-closeness-of-age in the original Manchurian Candidate (Lansbury ...

But perhaps the most uncomfortable movie ever made (although I haven't seen the original, so maybe that's the most uncomfortable movie ever made).  The entire premise of this movie is to make the viewer an observer who chooses to witness atrocities committed against a family by a couple of obnoxious, ...

I watched An Education based solely on Carey Mulligan's Best Actress Academy Award nomination.  I didn't know the premise of the film, nor the setting.  I was banking my entire enjoyment of the film on Mulligan's performance, and while she (and the rest of the cast) left me charmed and ...