Fifty/Fifty is the last film where crap-master screenwriters Dennis Shryack and Michael Butler worked together, though it appears they wrote the script in the mid-eighties. It’s one of their best films, which isn’t difficult, only because the film occasionally batters its viewer with man’s inhumanity to his fellow man (in this film’s case, it’s when […]
Entries Tagged as 'Peter Weller'
Fifty/Fifty (1992, Charles Martin Smith)
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Cannon Films· Charles Martin Smith· Dennis Shryack· Michael Butler· Peter Weller· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Screamers (1995, Christian Duguay)
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Sometimes competency is a bad thing. Screamers is a fairly well-made–Duguay’s composition isn’t spectacular, mostly because the sets were all CG embellished so there was only so much he was actually shooting–but there are some excellent effects sequences. There’s some nice stop motion and then a great shuttlecraft liftoff. Duguay knows how to spend his […]
Tagged: Christian Duguay· Dan O'Bannon· Miguel Tejada-Flores· Peter Weller· Philip K. Dick· Triumph Films· ★
Robocop 2 (1990, Irvin Kershner)
November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I remember in 1991, when I was visiting a friend and he showed me the Robocop movies (there were only two at the time, of course)–I’m tempted to go on a tangent about when one could still show someone movies… you kind of lose that opportunity with adulthood, then you just get to recommend. Anyway, […]
Tagged: Edward Neumeier· Frank Miller· Irvin Kershner· Michael Miner· Orion Pictures· Peter Weller· Walon Green· ★
Gold Coast (1997, Peter Weller)
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
I was going to start saying the amount of Elmore Leonard adaptations had dwindled, peaking after soon Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown. However, it appears Leonard adaptations are a mainstay, whether theatrically or–mostly–on television. Gold Coast actually might not even have come from that period (except David Caruso’s hero is in the […]
Tagged: David Caruso· Elmore Leonard· Harley Peyton· Peter Weller· Richard Bradford· Showtime Networks· ★★
Rainbow Drive (1990, Bobby Roth)
July 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Peter Weller’s an L.A. cop with an in-ground swimming pool and a case his bosses don’t want him to solve. So what’s he going to do? He’s going to solve it, boring the viewer to sleep while he does too. It’s not Weller’s fault. It’s the script. And the direction, but I’ll get to it […]
Tagged: Bennett Cohen· Bill Phillips· Bobby Roth· David Caruso· ITC Entertainment Group· Peter Weller· Roderick Thorp· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Shakedown (1988, James Glickenhaus)
June 3rd, 2006 · No Comments
Shakedown is such a terrible film, I’d have to go through it line by line to adequately catalog its deficiencies. The big action climax features Sam Elliot hanging onto landing gear of a jet flying over the World Trade Center, then dropping into a river. This climax–from take-off to dropping into the river to the […]
Tagged: Harold Perrineau· James Glickenhaus· Peter Weller· Universal Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Leviathan (1989, George P. Cosmatos)
April 9th, 2006 · No Comments
Leviathan has to be one of the few films where the hero punches out a woman for audience satisfaction, which is actually quite an achievement for the film, since it’s so derivative. Leviathan is Alien, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and Peter Hyams’ Outland rolled together, with an amazing 1980s cast kneaded into the dough–there’s Ernie […]
Tagged: David Webb Peoples· George P. Cosmatos· Jeb Stuart· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Peter Weller· ★½
