Reviews written by John Wilson
This is a film that can entertain anyone young or old, I usually don't care for animated movies, but this film is the real deal, this is one of Disney's best animated movies. The animation is top notch and flawless. This film also features superb work from the vocal...
Hot Tub Time Machine plays off of the imagination and fantasy of if you can go back through time with your knowledge of what's to come. What would you do? Buy bitcoin at a hundred dollars to start off with of course. Mayhem ensues and so do the laughs. ...
Kevin Kline's comic turn highlights this winning farce about a straitlaced teacher whose world is shattered when a former student refers to him as gay on TV. The teacher is forced to re-examine his sexuality while fending off his worried bride-to-be (Joan Cusack) and a gay reporter (Tom Selleck)....
Eyes Wide Shut makes for quite the cryptic ending to the illustrious career of Stanley Kubrick. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman play an affluent married couple in NYC. They seem happy on the surface, but we learn quickly their marriage is built upon a number of pretenses. The story...
Howard the Duck was perhaps George Lucas’ attempt to satirize pal Steven Spielberg’s E.T, using a sardonic Marvel comic book character most people hadn’t heard of. Since the movie’s release on 1 August 1986, Howard the Duck has become a byword for box-office catastrophe, not to mention an easy...
I was a little skeptical when I heard the name of this movie, but it actually turned out to be very funny. The laughs were all in the right spots, hit the right notes, and kept on coming. What more can you ask for in a comedy? What I...
The Cannonball Run movie is very unique. You have so many stars in it you can't even count them. Sammy Davis Jr, Roger Moore, Farra Fawcett, Dom Deluise, Burt Renyolds, even Jackie Chan, among others. The begginning of the 1980's was a great time for everything. No Internet, no...
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980) was the second film to star to pot loving duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. The lovable burn out smokers are now roommates. They live in a condemned building looking for ways to score more smoke and just lay about all day....
Bad Santa is obsessed with detailing the squalor of its titular character’s life. A viciously misanthropic con man, Willie T. Soke (Billy Bob Thornton), along with his dwarf accomplice, robs the stores he works for every Christmas season. The intimacy with which Soke’s self-hatred is enumerated borders on the...
This movie was really cool. I don't know how else to describe it. Jack Nicolson's character discovers he has become a wolf after being bitten one night. He gains amazing powers of his scenses. He can hear really well, is stronger, and can see a lot better. Sort of...
No relation to Octomom, this Bond movie is a great flick. Another 1980s cold war storyline, Roger Moore acts very well in this movie. Opening scene is epic, with the usual music and visual score that really starts the movie off well. If you are a fan of the...
“The Karate Kid” is an exciting, sweet-tempered, heart-warming story with one of the most interesting friendships. The friends come from different worlds. A kid named Daniel is a New Jersey teenager who moves with his mother to Los Angeles. An old guy named Miyagi is the Japanese janitor in...
This is one of my all-time favorites, all the way from 1985. And now there is talk of a sequel with the original cast coming soon. This movie had a fantastic team behind the camera. Steven Spielberg wrote the story, Chris Columbus wrote the screenplay and Richard Donner was...
The original Matrix movie really is a classic. IT came out in 1999 when no one was talking about AI. Twenty-five years later, it is everyday topic. We have chatbots and soon robots taking over everything we do and how we interact every day. Will they take over the...
Sam Elliot and Patrick Swayze as drifter bouncers in 1989, what more can you ask for? Well, throw Kelly Lynch in the mix and you are ready for some gratuitous "action" all around. This is just a cool movie with some 1980s nudity/sex thrown in. If that interests, you...
Ah, the 1980's. Anthony Michael Hall is at hos prime in this movie. Fresh off of sixteen candles and vacation, only could provide the needed laughs in this movie to make it worth seeing. A teen movie, it also has a youthful Robert Downey Jr in it. So if...
I just rewatched this masterpiece. I still can't believe that Paul Giamatti didn't get at least an Oscar nomination for one of the most heartbreaking performances ever. His heart visibly shatters at least 3 times in this film, and the scene at Jack's wedding where he learns his ex...
I love this movie. I remember when it first came out in the theater and that scene came up. It is one of the best scenes in movies ever in my opinion. You know what scene I am talking about, and that it is why it is so iconic. ...
I just saw Terrifier 3 last night. I'm a big fan of small budget movies and really like it when they do better than expected at the box office. This has been the case with the Terrifier franchise. If you like 80's horror movies like Halloween, you will love...
This is another 80's classic. This one of Michael J Fox's earliest movie roles. Soundtrack is really good. Michael J Fox plays a teenager going thru some changes. He has genes that start to erupt in him that turns him into a werewolf when he gets agitated. Being a...
The story is an epic one telling the time traversing tale of Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) born in 16th century Scotland in the harsh highlands (hence his nickname!) where a battle with a rival clan assisted by the menacing skull clad assassin known only as The Kurgan (Clancy Brown)...
The Big Lebowski has to be one of the most absurd movies I have ever seen. It is practically plotless. Its comedy is gleefully absurd. And it doesn't once try to be something it is not. As always, I admire the Coens for going so out there and not...
This was the best Predator in the whole franchise, even better than the original. The acting by the main character was amazing. The scenery was spectacular. All of the action scenes with the Predator Alien character were intense and very satisfying. If you are looking for a good scifi/action...
This is almost the perfect movie. NYC in the 1980s. Bill Murray's dry humor in this movie is fantastic. The story is great and the special effects are great for the times. Sigourney Weaver as the love interest for Murray really plays well. A cameo by Rick Moranis is...
Reviewing the Fast and Furious movies is something of a challenge. None of the F&F movies are actually any good as movies, but many of them are really, really good at being F&F movies. "Good" and "bad" mean very different things in Fast and Furious movies than they do...
