Reviews

"White Boy Rick" is a true story set in the 1980's about a 15-year old Detroit teen who worked undercover for the FBI as a drug dealer. Matthew McConaughey (in an excellent, Oscar-worthy performance) plays the boy's father.

The film is consistently interesting and has excellent 1980's atmosphere. Well worth watching. Richie Merritt is also impressive as the title character.

The one criticism is that Bruce Dern and Piper Laurie are underused.

"Independence Day: Resurgence" is an absolutely awful sequel to the classic 1996 summer blockbuster. Most of the original cast returns (save for Will Smith, whose character is killed off in the story). Even Robert Loggia makes a brief welcome appearance in the beginning of the film. It was his last film role.

Despite all the returning cast members, the film feels badly edited and rushed into completion. Another major problem is the story doesn't allow the viewer to care about the characters very much (unlike the original which had a ton of likable and appealing characters).

Besides the visual effects (including the awesome gigantic alien queen), the only other saving grace of the film is Brent Spiner as Dr. Okun. Spiner had an amusing part in the first film but very minimal screen time. Quite the opposite in the sequel (he has a ton of screen time). But these few positives are not enough to make this film worth your time and hard-earned cash.

I have been trying to track down a lot of the hard to film 1950's film noirs that Edward G. Robinson appeared in. Found this movie online and bought it.

Ginger Rogers plays a likable convict given the chance for early release if she testifies against a vicious crime boss (wonderfully played by pre-"Bonanza" Lorne Greene). Brian Keith is the tough cop assigned to watch over Rogers during her stay in a safehouse.

Edward G. Robinson is good but underused in the supporting role of the District Attorney trying to get Rogers to testify.

The majority of the film takes place in the safehouse. So it feels very stagy and talky at times. Don't watch this film to expect tons and tons of action.

This is one of Brian Keith's earliest roles and he is very solid in it. The second of the film gets more exciting and watchable.

Rogers is also solid but it is the supporting players in here (specifically Greene and Keith) that really give the best performances.

Watch it if you come across it on a slow night like I did.

This is an entertaining flick, but notice one thing. It goes back to its predecessor "Son Of Frankenstein". Boris Karloff as the monster in "Son Of Frankenstein" murders two villagers who were on the village council. One was a portly man named "Lange" and the other was a small, mustachioed man named "Neumiller" (not sure if spelled right). At the beginning of "Ghost Of Frankenstein", the same two murdered village board members (Lange and Neumiller) can be seen back at their pulpits on the village council with speaking parts. They say "I agree your honor" when the mayor is taking a vote as to whether or not the castle of Baron Frankenstein should be destroyed. Careless, even stupid, mistake. One would be passable, but both of them back!!!! Come one!

Any of the movies from the company "PM" are usually gonna be pretty bad. PM uses the same actors quite frequently, especially Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen. I was surprised to see Bill Shatner show up. The most ridiculous part of the movie to me is the climactic fight between Jennings (Jeff Speakman) and Shatner's character Aiden Carvell (however it is spelled, who cares!!). Speakman at the time was only 38 or 39 years old and is a martial arts expert. He is supposed to have a hand to hand fight with portly, aging, senior citizen Shatner. Come on! Shatner only got one good lick on Speakman anyway in the fight. Plus, he was another example of the kind of bad guy who talks instead of just killing the hero when he has the chance. He walks up to Speakman with a gun and says "It's over!" Just shoot him! Speakman then kicks Shatner's ass while he is badly injured (Speakman).

Bad movie but I bought it cheap on DVD and watch it frequently if I am bored just alone because the climactic fight is so hilarious! Why do they have all these former TV stars in this movie by the way? Bernie "Doc" Kopell from "The Love Boat" shows up. Charles Robinson from "Night Court" plays a bad guy and of course William Shatner of "Star Trek" plays the bad guy ringleader.

I was a total addict of the 1970's "Bob Newhart Show". I used to watch it every night at 10pm on my local channel. I was still in high school and loved the show even though it was the 1990's and the show was drowned in 1970's atmosphere. I love the dimwitted Howard played by Bill Dailey. My fondest memory of the show was an episode where Bob was at the office and was getting ready to leave on an elevator. The door opens and unbeknownst to Bob, the elevator car isn't there. He almost falls and dies but clings to something and screams "Jerry, Carol!" The doors close and Jerry and Carol don't even realize what's going on. They keep their backs turned. CLASSIC EPISODE!!!