Walter Matthau is in peak form in Hopscotch, a featherweight spy-game comedy in which he plays a CIA agent who's way smarter than his dimwitted superiors. That's the fantasy part--this amusing cat-and-mouse game is so lopsided that you can't take it seriously. The movie's charm is derived from the sardonic pleasure with which Matthau makes his pursuers look like idiots, after they've ...
Manufacturer: Embassy/Nelson Ent. - O.B.Starring: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert LomDirected By: Ronald Neame
Manufacturer: Columbia PicturesStarring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Joan Goodfellow, Pamela Sue Martin, Clifton James, Robert EnglundDirected By: Daniel Petrie, Sidney Sheldon
A refutation of then-President George Bush's notion of 1,000 points of light, this film by director Tim Hunter is about what happened when holes in the social safety net created a homeless population of unprecedented size during the Reagan-Bush years. The film focuses on two of the homeless: a sweet but troubled young man (Matt Dillon) and a more rugged, worldly-wise homeless Vietnam veteran ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Rick Aviles, Nina Siemaszko, Ving RhamesDirected By: Tim Hunter
The much-loved novels of C.S. Forester come to life in Captain Horatio Hornblower, a solid, engrossing seafaring tale. Forester himself worked on the script for the 1951 film, which mines its plot from three Hornblower books. Set during the Napoleonic era, the movie kicks off by steering British captain Hornblower (Gregory Peck) into the middle of a nimble cat-and-mouse game with ...
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. PicturesStarring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence MorganDirected By: Raoul Walsh
A Kubrick masterpiece that spans from the dawn of man to it's title year when an alien artifact is found on the moon. An expedition is launched to Jupiter to track it's origins.
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard RossiterDirected By: Stanley Kubrick
Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky's and director Sidney Lumet's take on television may seem quaint in the age of "reality TV" and Jerry Springer's talk-show fisticuffs, it's every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the ...
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley AddyDirected By: Sidney Lumet
Scorned by reviewers when it came out, this concentrated dose of commando death-dealing to legions of Nazi machine-gun fodder has acquired a cult over the years. In 1968 Clint Eastwood was just getting used to the notion that he might be a world-class movie star; Richard Burton, whose image had been shaped equally by classical theater training and his headline-making romance with Elizabeth Taylor, ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael HordernDirected By: Brian G. Hutton
When Stanley Kubrick recruited Arthur C. Clarke to collaborate on "the proverbial intelligent science fiction film," it's a safe bet neither the maverick auteur nor the great science fiction writer knew they would virtually redefine the parameters of the cinema experience. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," 2001 is a visual tone ...
Manufacturer: Rhino / WeaStarring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard RossiterDirected By: Stanley Kubrick
It helps to have one of history's greatest scoops as your factual inspiration, but journalism thrillers just don't get any better than All the President's Men. Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are perfectly matched as (respectively) Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation into the Watergate scandal set the stage for President Richard Nixon's ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal HolbrookDirected By: Alan J. Pakula
