What Peter Hyams does at the end of Outland–cutting away from Sean Connery to a shot of the mining station with a superimposed message from the character to his wife–ought to be a crime. Hyams gets one of Connery’s better performances out of him and then cheats both Connery and the viewer from giving the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Peter Boyle'
The Dream Team (1989, Howard Zieff)
February 16th, 2007 · No Comments
I’d forgotten how loud comedies could get. Maybe I haven’t seen enough eighties comedies lately, because watching The Dream Team, I kept wondering how I’d never noticed the music in the film before. I saw The Dream Team back on video, probably in 1990–Michael Keaton as Batman might not have been box office dollars, but […]
Tagged: David Loucka· Howard Zieff· James Remar· Jon Connolly· Michael Keaton· Peter Boyle· Universal Pictures· ★★
The Shadow (1994, Russell Mulcahy)
July 14th, 2005 · No Comments
The Shadow not a perfect film, but there’s so much good about it. Besides that its great cast–Jonathan Winters is the only weak link–besides that its beautifully constructed screenplay–the best constructed one I can think of… I haven’t seen this film since the theater, so I was sixteen. I don’t remember liking it. I didn’t […]
Tagged: Alec Baldwin· David Koepp· Penelope Ann Miller· Peter Boyle· Russell Mulcahy· Universal Pictures· Walter B. Gibson· ★★★
