Film Dictionary

Dustin Hoffman is excellent as Hook, but Robin Williams as an adult Peter Pan is a disappointment. Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell is even worse...

The 60's only began in the middle of that decade, when Watts riots and the Vietnam War had awaken the consciousness of the American yout...

An inferior remake of the 1950 hit starring Elizabeth Taylor and Spencer Tracy.

Manipulative film about an abusive husband.

Harvey Keitel steals the movie from Demi Moore and Bruce Willis.

A young boy tries to save the land of Fantasia from Emptiness. An extremely disappointing sequel. There is no story, no adventures and no pl...

Laura Dern is an unconventional young woman in a sleepy Southern town in the 1930's.

Worthless film starring Joe Pesci as a slum-lord learning the errors of his ways.

1. "GoodFellas"  (Martin Scorsese, USA) 2.  "Metropolitan"  (Whit Stillman, USA) 3.  ''Singapore Sling'...

"Cry-Baby" (John Waters, Universal)

This Greek film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis is among the most perverse and deranged comedies ever made. Michelle Valley plays a demented mo...

Martin Scorsese's masterpiece and arguably the greatest American film of all time ("Citizen Kane" included). This is movie s...

Jane Austen in Manhattan. Wonderfully witty film about rich young preppies attending Christmas parties on the Upper East Side.

Flamboyant and dynamic adaptation of the classic tale, starring Gerard Depardieu as the long-nosed swashbuckler who falls in love with his...

Winona Ryder gives one of her best performances as a young girl growing up in the early 1960's. Cher plays her excentric mother.

An unusual picture for John Woo. It's a crime film, but one set in South Vietnam in the late 60's. It also bears some striking sim...

Charming and intelligent comedy directed by Eric Rohmer. Great dialogues.

Fine musical film with excellent dance numbers.

A Soviet film, clearly inspired by "Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears".

Fantasy melodrama about undying love.

A race car driver (Tom Cruise) has a serious accident, but he manages to overcome his fears to win the Daytona 500 race. A fairly convention...

Musical film about an Amazonian princess who wants to dance and save the rainforest. A certain priscillagrrr took this film a bit too serio...

Very original fantasy fable from Tim Burton.

Fabrice Luchini stars in this French drama about relationships between men and women.

Directed by Sam Raimi, it's an effective action/horror movie about a masked avenger.

It will be forever remembered as that overpraised western that stole the best picture Oscar from "GoodFellas", but otherwise it...

An Iranian drama directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It's based on a true story of a fraud artist who pretended to be a famous Iranian filmm...