Director of not one, not two, but three 1980s John Hughes movies, Howard Deutch applies those hard-earned skills to remaking M*A*S*H and, shockingly, doesn’t do too bad of a job. Sure, Article 99 is absurd and Lea Thompson as a doctor is a hoot, but its well-intentioned and sensitive to its characters. I’d heard of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Keith David'
Article 99 (1992, Howard Deutch)
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tagged: Eli Wallach· Forest Whitaker· Howard Deutch· Keith David· Kiefer Sutherland· Orion Pictures· Ray Liotta· Ron Cutler· ★★
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I always say John Carpenter needs to direct something else, something non-genre. A romantic comedy perhaps or a family drama. I guess it never occurred to me, but with The Thing, Carpenter is directing something else. It’s kind of too bad, his best film is the one–in some ways–least like his others. In The Thing, […]
Tagged: Bill Lancaster· John Carpenter· John W. Campbell Jr.· Keith David· Kurt Russell· Universal Pictures· Wilford Brimley· ★★★★
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, Dave Bullock)
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In terms of ambitiousness, Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier is in many ways as ambitious as a superhero comic book can get. Cooke tied DC Comics superheroes to the American political landscape of the 1950s and, while he didn’t have an absolute success, he did just fine, never losing the zeal (occasionally letting it go […]
Tagged: Darwyn Cooke· Dave Bullock· John Heard· Keith David· Miguel Ferrer· Stan Berkowitz· Warner Premiere· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Oh in Ohio (2006, Billy Kent)
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Short movies–under ninety minutes–are having a creative resurgence of late. I’m thinking primarily of Ed Burns’s Looking for Kitty as the model (and it was well under ninety), but The Oh in Ohio is another fine example. The way the filmmakers keep Ohio short is very interesting. They end the movie during the last five […]
Tagged: Adam Wierzbianski· Billy Kent· Cyan Pictures· Danny DeVito· Keith David· Parker Posey· Sarah Bird· ★★★
Larger Than Life (1996, Howard Franklin)
May 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Larger Than Life is a different film today than it was ten years ago–back then, I remember, it was a big deal Matthew McConaughey starred in the film. There were reshoots to add more of him. Today, the film’s sold as a kid’s movie on DVD, which isn’t particularly appropriate, given a lot of the […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Howard Franklin· Keith David· Linda Fiorentino· Matthew McConaughey· Roy Blount Jr.· United Artists· ★★½
Transporter 2 (2005, Louis Leterrier)
February 24th, 2006 · No Comments
This film is actually dedicated to someone’s memory. Sort of offensive, isn’t it? Dedicating a crappy movie to someone’s memory? Peter Jackson dedicated King Kong to Fay Wray’s memory and there’s certainly some evidence she wouldn’t have wanted the honor (Wray didn’t like the idea of Kong being remade and turned Jackson down during his […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Jason Statham· Keith David· Louis Leterrier· Luc Besson· Matthew Modine· Robert Mark Kamen· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Volcano (1997, Mick Jackson)
August 26th, 2005 · No Comments
I’m trying to remember why I queued Volcano. I’ve recently been on a “rediscovering the mid-to-late 1990s” kick, so that reason is possible, but I’m pretty sure it was because Anne Heche was in it and I wanted to go back to when she was going to have a great career. Heche is incredibly good […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Anne Heche· Billy Ray· Don Cheadle· Jerome Armstrong· Keith David· Mick Jackson· Tommy Lee Jones· ★
