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Bottle Shock (2008, Randall Miller)

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I have to make a disclosure. I try to drink the highest Robert Parker rated wine I can afford. They’ve tended to be French. Actually, I think they’ve all been French. But whatever.
Because Bottle Shock seems rather like advertising for Napa Valley wine, so much so, I’d love to see who financed it. There should […]

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Tagged: Alan Rickman· Bill Pullman· Freestyle Releasing· Jody Savin· Lannette Pabon· Randall Miller· Ross Schwartz·

Spaceballs (1987, Mel Brooks)

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s kind of amazing how much of Spaceballs is actually funny–pretty much everything with Rick Moranis and Mel Brooks as the Spaceballs president–given how everything with Bill Pullman and Daphne Zuniga falls flat. It doesn’t even fall… it’s a zero degree plane. Some of it has to do with the writing of that portion–Brooks and […]

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Tagged: Bill Pullman· Mel Brooks· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Ronny Graham· Thomas Meehan· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Ruthless People (1986, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Clocking in at a whopping ninety minutes, Ruthless People feels a tad undercooked. Lots of trailer-ready sequences, lots of memorable moments, nothing to really connect them. The ZAZ directing team (it’s probably been sixteen years since I’ve thought about them) is adequate, but they don’t really direct actors very well here, so the casting goes […]

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Tagged: Bill Pullman· Dale Launer· Danny DeVito· David Zucker· Jerry Zucker· Jim Abrahams· O. Henry· Touchstone Pictures·

Malice (1993, Harold Becker)

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Malice starts relatively okay, but it’s got a terribly flawed first half. Until the point Bill Pullman takes over as lead character, especially as Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman are spiraling through their lawsuit, it seems like Malice is going to be a well-produced disaster. It’s well-made, reasonably well-directed–Becker does a good job for the […]

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Tagged: Aaron Sorkin· Alec Baldwin· Anne Bancroft· Bebe Neuwirth· Bill Pullman· Columbia Pictures· George C. Scott· Harold Becker· Jonas McCord· Scott Frank· ★★

Wyatt Earp (1994, Lawrence Kasdan), the expanded edition

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Thirty-nine years old when Wyatt Earp was released, all Kevin Costner needed to do to de-age himself twenty years was smile. During the young Earp days, Costner looks younger than costar Annabeth Gish, not to mention Linden Ashby (playing his younger brother).
The extended version of Wyatt Earp clocks in at three and a half hours. […]

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Tagged: Bill Pullman· Catherine O'Hara· Dan Gordon· Dennis Quaid· Gene Hackman· Kevin Costner· Lawrence Kasdan· Michael Madsen· Tom Sizemore· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

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