"Regisseur Sam Raimi (Tanz der Teufel 1-3, Ein einfacher Plan) versucht auf spielerische Art, die exotischen Mysterien des Spaghetti-Westerns in diesem stilsicheren, aber gehaltlosen Film einzufangen. Sharon Stone (Die Muse, Sphere) spielt die Fremde, die in das Western-Städtchen Redemption reitet, gerade zur Zeit des alljährlichen Duell-Wettbewerbs. Die wahren Beweggründe für ihr Auftauchen sind der Stoff, der auch in einem Sergio-Leone ..."
"Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda and Rosie Perez star in this irrepressible romantic comedy inspired by the true story of a humble cop who leaves a two million dollar tip to a hard-luck waitress. Charlie Lang (Cage) is a neighborhood cop with a heart of gold, and a money-hungry wife Muriel (Perez) who'salways looking for a way to cash in. When she asks Charlie to buy a lottery ticket, he agrees, thenimpulsively promises half the winnings to ..."
"Wenn Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Rendezvous mit Joe Black) nicht für die Rolle des österreichischen Bergsteigers Heinrich Harrer unterschrieben hätte, wäre es denkbar, dass diese aufwändige, 70 Millionen Dollar teure Produktion nie entstanden wäre. Sieben Jahre in Tibet war einer der beiden Filme (neben Martin Scorseses exquisitem Kundun), die sich 1997 den historischen Konflikten zwischen China und Tibet annahmen und sie, durch die Augen de ..."
"Steven Spielbergs Hook ist ein Film mit Fehlern, der aber auch seine lustigen Momente hat. Der Film ist eine bewegende aktualisierte Form der Legende um Peter Pan und hat als Hauptdarsteller Robin Williams als den Erwachsen gewordenen Peter Pan. Williams spielt einen gestressten Geschäftsmann, der seine alte Identität wiederfinden muss, um seine Kinder vor Kapitän Hook (Dustin Hoffman) zu retten. Die Schauspieler liefern eine gute Arbei ..."
"Es ist klar, weshalb Melanie Griffith den Bestseller von Mark Childress Verrückt in Alabama als perfektes Vehikel für sich selbst betrachtete. Die Rolle von Lucille, einer hübschen, wohlbehüteten Ehefrau in Alabama, die von einer glorreichen Filmkarriere träumt, ist perfekt auf sie zugeschnitten. Melanie Griffiths Ehemann Antonio Banderas hat eine durchaus respektable Leistung abgeliefert, indem er sie als Regisseur in seinem Debut anl ..."
"In Look Who's Talking Too, little Mikey figures he's got it made after uniting his mother (Kirstie Alley) with the dad of his dreams (John Travolta). But instead of family bliss, Mikey gets the biggest surprise of his life - a baby sister. In this hilarious sequel to Look Who's Talking, Bruce Willis returns as the voice of Mikey, while Roseanne Barr's voice delivers baby Julie's delightful wisecracks. Together, these's fast-talking tots ..."
"Henry V., sein Debüt als Kinoregisseur, hat Kenneth Branagh kurzfristig zum Liebling der Kritik gemacht, doch alle seine späteren Filme stießen meist nur noch auf Skepsis und oft sogar Ablehnung. Am härtesten hat es dabei Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, seine Adaption des klassischen Schauerromans, getroffen. Die Ruhelosigkeit der Inszenierung, die ständig herum wirbelnde und fliegende Kamera und das Expressive und Wilde von Branaghs Spiel ..."
"Young Clark Kellog (Matthew Broderick) had no idea film school would drop him into the hands of a real-life Godfather, but after a street punk robs him his first day in New York City, that's just where the road leads. Marlon Brando let everyone know he was in on the joke with his hammy, good-humored performance as the bulldog-jowled Mafioso Carmine Sabatini, the man Clark's prissy, self-important professor swears was the real life inspi ..."
"Lurid thrillers don't get much more shameless than this movie, in which Robert De Niro plays a pathological baseball fan whose obsession is focused on a San Francisco Giants all-star outfielder (Wesley Snipes). While the newly signed baseball star is having trouble getting his favorite uniform number from a competitive teammate (Benicio Del Toro), De Niro is having career troubles at the knife company his father founded, and you can bet ..."
"In the first and finest RoboCop movie, director Paul Verhoeven combined near-future science fiction with a keen sense of social satire--not to mention enough high-velocity violence to satisfy even the most voracious bloodlust. In Starship Troopers, Verhoeven and RoboCop cowriter Ed Neumeier take inspired cues from Robert Heinlein's classic sci-fi novel to create a special-effects extravaganza that functions on multiple levels of enterta ..."
"A gloriously over-the-top treat, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers takes the militaristic moralising of Robert Heinlein's pulp classic and sets about undermining it mercilessly. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) desperately wants to join the Mobile Infantry and kill some Earth-threatening alien bugs. He also desperately wants Carmen (Denise Richards), but only gets to fulfil one ambition in the second of Verhoeven's futuristic satires (als ..."
"A gloriously over-the-top treat, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers takes the militaristic moralising of Robert Heinlein's pulp classic and sets about undermining it mercilessly. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) desperately wants to join the Mobile Infantry and kill some Earth-threatening alien bugs. He also desperately wants Carmen (Denise Richards), but only gets to fulfil one ambition in the second of Verhoeven's futuristic satires (als ..."
"Danny DeVitos Adaption des Kinderbuchs von Roald Dahl ist weitestgehend gelungen, nicht zuletzt dank der bezaubernden Darstellung von Mara Wilson (Der Zauberwunsch) als junge Matilda, ein begabtes Mädchen, das von ihren dummen und nur mit sich selbst beschäftigten Eltern (DeVito und Rhea Perlman) vernachlässigt wird. Da sie zu Hause ignoriert wird, flüchtet Matilda in die Welt der Bücher und trainiert ihren Willen so sehr, dass sie tel ..."
"The sexy sequel to the $30 million hit erotic-thriller Wild Things. A 17-year-old girl expecting to inherit her stepfather's fortune, finds herself in a love/hate relationship with a fellow classmate who appears suddenly claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and rightful heir. Great suspense filled with sex, money, deceit and murder."
"Was it something in the water? In the late 1980s, Hollywood came up with no fewer than three different versions of the same story: A child's mind winds up in an adult's body and (usually) vice versa. In fact, that was the name of one of them, Vice Versa. The other one was Big. This one, which starred Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron, was perhaps the weakest of the group, with Moore as a heart surgeon and Cameron as his goofy kid; they cha ..."
"Midwestern kid Monroe Clark (C. Thomas Howell, The Outsiders) moves to Los Angeles to intern for his lawyer uncle (Terry Kiser, Weekend at Bernie’s). But Monroe ends up hanging out at the beach instead and finds himself in the beach volleyball scene. Suddenly, Monroe gets teamed up with former King of the Beach Zack Barnes (Peter Horton, 2 Days in the Valley) to compete in the biggest tournament in the sport. Featuring several volleybal ..."
"It was murder! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. But now they're both wanted for it in the drop-dead comedy, SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, that reunites the outrageous comedyduo Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy). Meet Wally and Dave. Wally is blind,Dave is deaf. When a man is murdered outside the newsstand where they work, the police collar thesetwo unlikely buddies as their main suspects ..."