Tag: Lisa Eilbacher
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Beverly Hills Cop opens with a montage of Detroit street scenes. Kids playing, people talking, walking, Black and white. It’s beautifully cut—even at its most tediously cop action movie procedural, the editing is always glorious (though there’s lots of technical magnificence in Cop—and is well-done enough you even forgive the film for Glenn Frey’s The…
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Someone is mind-controlling upstanding citizens and making them commit daredevil bank robberies in broad daylight. While New York’s finest detectives–cigar-chewing Michael Pataki and his nitwit sidekick Robert Hastings–are on the case, they soon get some valuable assistance from Spider-Man! This television movie–a pilot for a series–introduces Nicholas Hammond as the hero. He’s a vaguely annoying,…
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Ninety-six minutes of dumb fun involving an sea monster terrorizing an underwater mining operation. Great cast of recognizable eighties supporting players like Ernie Hudson, Richard Crenna, Daniel Stern, and Meg Foster. Peter Weller’s a good lead, Amanda Pays is good as his love interest; really good performance from Crenna too. Despite the prestigious screenwriters (David…
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