Dracula: Dead And Loving It After the vastly disappointing Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Mel Brooks really needed to prove himself by getting back to his Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles-type comedy. The Dracula legend seemed like the perfect way to do it, especially considering how perfectly Brooks skewered ol’ Frank. But sadly, Brooks manages […]
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is without doubt the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time! It hardly warrants the pity star I have to give it because we don’t give anything lower! In fact, this movie is so bad that I should, in retrospect,
The Duellists In every director’s past there are some strange departures. Ridley Scott’s directorial debut, The Duellists, is no exception: It’s a competent but slow-paced outing that offers no hint that Scott would soon be making exciting thrillers like Alien and Blade Runner. To be fair, The Duellists (based on Conrad’s The Duel) is a
Duck Soup Widely considered the best Marx brothers film ever (and landing at #5 on the AFI’s list of top comedies), Duck Soup presents Groucho at his best, playing a dictator (of a country called Freedonia, natch) who starts a war over a girl who lives in a neighboring country (and who has saved Freedonia
Dr. T and the Women Dr. T and the Woman is the relatively harmless tale of the aforementioned Texas gynecologist (Gere) and the women who surround him. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) is a nut job with a psychiatric illness so rare and strange (it makes her act childish) that it can only be fictional. His
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) Terribly uninspired, this sequel to the bizarre and hilariously gory The Abominable Dr. Phibes has Phibes (Vincent Price) reanimating himself after three years of death (he engineered his own embalming at the end of the first one) in an attempt to find his scrolls holding the key to ultimate life.
Drumline (2002) I’ve always thought of marching bandmembers as just a bunch of geeks who walk about, stroking their instruments while swapping stories from band camp. I feared Drumline would be two hours of these musician wannabes screeching out simple notes on their secondhand instruments. To my surprise, Drumline is not just another recital from
Dressed to Kill Angie Dickenson isn’t the one that’s dressed to kill she’s dressed to get killed. When she gets butchered by a razor-wielding mystery woman in an elevator, it’s up to a cop (Dennis Franz) and her shrink (Michael Caine) to figure out who offed the nymphomaniacal Angie. Oh, and Angie’s son teams up
The Dreamers It’s unfortunate that, far too often, the audience for a film is based on marketing hype, and therefore doesn’t interact with the material on a more personal level. Bernardo Bertolucci is especially infamous for making films that contain explicit sexual content, and the combination of this renown and an NC-17 rating has had
Dreamcatcher Lawrence Kasdan’s Dreamcatcher begins with intriguing promise a series of icy cool, shape-shifting visuals make for an eerie credits sequence. Enjoy it while you can, because it’s downhill from there in this Stephen King-based thriller. It does take a little while for Kasdan’s adaptation to completely fall apart, so there are some decent shakes
