"Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet as to who's going to be funnier and who's going to give the more nuanced performance. Somehow, though, De Niro walks away with most of the laughs in Analyze This, a buddy action-comedy about a mob boss (De Niro, natch) suffering from panic attacks who makes a nebbishy shrink (Crystal, natch) an offer he can't refuse--actually, it's not really an off ..."
"John Landis was the perfect director for Innocent Blood, a horror-comedy hybrid that does for French vampires in Pittsburgh what Landis's An American Werewolf in London did for hungry lycanthropes in Picadilly Square. Anne Parillaud, the sexy star of La Femme Nikita, is perfectly cast as a beguiling vampire who must feed regularly on human blood, and when she spots a local Mafia kingpin (Robert Loggia), she says to herself, "I think I'l ..."
"A tepid reworking of Warren Beatty's Heaven Can Wait (itself a remake of 1941's Here Comes Mr. Jordan), Down to Earth tries to mold comedian Chris Rock into an amiable romantic lead, but it softens the scathingly observant humor that made Rock a standup successor to Richard Pryor. Rock's aggressive style is bracingly expressed in a few good scenes, but through most of this movie--from the directors of American Pie--he struggles with dia ..."
"Einmal Himmel und zurück ist ein Remake von Der Himmel soll warten mit Warren Beatty. Chris Rock spielt den schwarzen Komiker Lance, der aus Versehen vor seiner Zeit im Himmel landet. Das Problem: Sein Körper ist leider weg. Übergangsweise wird ihm der Körper eines rücksichtslosen weißen Millionärs zur Verfügung gestellt. Im Körper von Charles Wellington verliebt sich Lance in die schwarze Aktivistin Sontee. Außerdem will Lance als Stan ..."
"Die Darsteller altern nicht -- dies ist das bemerkenswerte daran, wenn man die Fortsetzung eines Zeichentrickfilms macht. Disney brauchte 46 Jahre, um eine Fortsetzung zu seinem Erfolg Susi und Strolch herzustellen, jedoch spielt die Handlung dieses nur auf Video veröffentlichten Films lediglich sechs Monate nach seinem Vorgänger. Susi und Strolch kommen gut mit den Darlings, ihrer menschlichen Familie, zurecht und haben vier kleine Hu ..."
"You wouldn't want to spend much time with the folks from David Rabe's play Hurlyburly. A sensation when it played on stage (with marquee names Harvey Keitel and William Hurt), Rabe's tale of the cocaine-influenced days of Hollywood in the 1980s i"
"Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamored of its own cleverness to make much sens ..."
"Eine Reine Nervensache kurieren muss in dieser ausgelassenen Mafia-Komödie Billy Crystal (seines Zeichens mehrfacher Moderator der Oscar-Nacht, City Slicker(s) und Harry aus Harry und Sally). Und die Betonung liegt auf "muss", denn als der von seinen Patienten gelangweilte und von seinen erfolgreichen Eltern gestresste Psychiater Ben Sobol wird er vom treuen Bodyguard Jelly (der Mafioso-Darsteller par excellence Joe Viterelli) aus seine ..."
"Marisa Tomei releases her inner spitfire in The Perez Family. Dottie Perez (Tomei) comes to the U.S. from Cuba, along with a mixed lot of criminals, lunatics, and political prisoners--including Juan Perez (Alfred Molina), who hopes to be reunited with his wife after 20 years. To work around the bureaucratic politics of the refugee camps, Dottie persuades Juan to pretend that they're married, and drafts a few other Perezes to creat ..."
"Too much surface. Director Lee (The Edge) Tomahori's noir story serves as a McGuffin to its ripe style. Amid secret agendas and unspeakable acts onscreen you stare at the fall of light across old cops' desks. Musing on super-8 footage of naked Jennifer Connelly, your mind wanders. Ah, yes, an allusion to the opening shots of Chinatown. Roman Polanski's grand reinvocation of the dark intuitions of 1940s noir is there, too, in the sumpt ..."
"This great collection of award winning actor Robert DeNiro includes five of his best-selling films on DVD--- Anayze This, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas, Heat, and Wag the Dog."
"Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial debut with this production and, except for a little stiffness, does very well by the characters and their world. The s ..."
"Neither director William Friedkin nor star David Caruso could redeem this vulgar, nasty script by Joe Eszterhas. Caruso is a politically ambitious assistant D.A. investigating the gruesome murder of a San Francisco bigwig. Too many clues point in the direction of his former girlfriend (Linda Fiorentino), a shrink who has a secret sideline as call girl to the rich and kinky. For good measure, she's now married to Caruso's best friend, Ch ..."
"Bullets over Broadway ist einer der besten Filme Allens der Neunzigerjahre. Hauptdarsteller John Cusack spielt quasi stellvertretend für Woody Allen einen neurotischen Jazz-Age-Schriftsteller, dessen neues Stück in den Ohren eines Mafiosos (Chazz Palminteri), der abgestellt ist, über die Freundin seines Chefs zu wachen, hölzern und unrealistisch klingt. Als der Gangster damit anfängt, bessere Ideen und Dialoge beizusteuern, als der echt ..."
"Leave no witnesses. City officials look the other way as the "SCAR" unit (Select Unit Armed Response), led by Lt. Lain Devon (Chazz Palminteri), use their extreme ruthless and corrupt tactics to take out the city's most violent and dangerous criminals. Officer John Trace (Stephen Baldwin) is recruited for the unit and discovers that they are cold-blooded cops with a license to kill. During a bust, John breaks the SCAR code, letting a c ..."
"The Italian American experience embodies the contradictions of every ethnic group that strives to find a place in the American cultural landscape.The film "Little Italy" goes beyond stereotypes and addresses the universal story of immigration, assimilation and cultural identity. The struggles and triumphs of Italian Americans are revealed through interviews with an eclectic collection of characters including such luminaries as actor Ch ..."
"Neither director William Friedkin nor star David Caruso could redeem this vulgar, nasty script by Joe Eszterhas. Caruso is a politically ambitious assistant D.A. investigating the gruesome murder of a San Francisco bigwig. Too many clues point in the direction of his former girlfriend (Linda Fiorentino), a shrink who has a secret sideline as call girl to the rich and kinky. For good measure, she's now married to Caruso's best friend, Ch ..."
"Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial debut with this production and, except for a little stiffness, does very well by the characters and their world. The s ..."