Yay! Movies!

This is my first Arliss Howard movie since "Ruby." I noticed him in that movie and liked him, so now I'm on a quest to see all his movies. Or at least all of his movies that my TiVo can find. :) He was good in this one, but not being a Vietnam vet, I can't really relate to his... [Beyond the Call continued]

I wasn't greatly impressed with this movie, but I think I'm glad I watched it. Arliss Howard is a writer trying to get his stories published, but mostly getting a mailbox full of rejection letters. He's a Vietnam vet separated from his wife and family, too. There are a lot of fantasy sequences that made it unsettling and sometimes hard... [Big Bad Love continued]

I think I remember when this movie came out. There was a big hubbub because Goldie Hawn showed her butt. It might have been an earlier movie of hers, but I definitely remember a hubbub over some movie where she showed her butt. I don't remember if I saw this one before. It's pretty good. It's set in Miami in... [Criss Cross continued]

I thought that I had seen this before, but I had only seen the end. I usually like war movies like this; however, this one wasn't as rich as most. I think maybe it's because there wasn't much character development. I didn't enjoy the boot camp portion of the movie at all. It was interesting (and disturbing) to watch Vincent... [Full Metal Jacket continued]

David Arquette (John) and Lukas Haas (Donner) play gay prostitutes on Santa Monica Blvd. It starts out with someone stealing John's sneakers (his lucky sneaks) stuffed full of money as he sleeps in the grass. He was going to use that money to stay in the Park Plaza hotel that night as a birthday gift to himself. It's Christmas Eve... [Johns continued]

I loved this movie. A lot. Jessica Lange is a widow and mother of two. When her husband dies, he leaves her with some big bills. She has to move from a small town to Baltimore to find a job. I thought this movie was going to be all kinds of serious, but there's some quirkiness to keep it light.... [Men Don't Leave continued]

This is kind of a dumb movie. But I sure enjoyed it. Arliss Howard is a policeman. His little brother gets accused of murdering a teacher. So Arliss goes undercover in the school to investigate. I loved Arliss Howard in this. Sometimes I have a crush on him, and sometimes I don't like him all that much. Depends on the... [Plain Clothes continued]

Ruby - Ruby is a movie about Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello plays Jack Ruby, and Sherilyn Fenn plays a fictitious dancer girl named Candy Cane who he befriends. I couldn't follow all the mob and government conspiracy stuff. There was stuff about Cuba, but it was all over my head. David Duchovny plays Officer... [Ruby continued]

Oliver Platt plays a Jewish man who poses as a not Jewish man to get close to and expose a group of fascist Germans who are working to ethnically cleanse Germany. It's based on a true story. The group he goes after are not violent (although there is potential eventually). But the movie does show the more violent types, too.... [The Infiltrator continued]

Those Secrets - Okay men... watch this movie to see what happens when you cheat on your wife. She'll go back to her secret past life... being a hooker. Oh.. you didn't know she used to be a hooker? Yeah... she was a hooker. And your best friend was one of her Johns. Now she's a hooker again because you cheated on her,... [Those Secrets continued]

Chick Flick! I wasn't expecting a chick flick. I almost turned it off at the beginning because I couldn't embrace Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes as drag queens. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It worked for John Leguizamo, though. I loved the way Leguizamo talked. He reminded me of Rosie Perez. The three drag queens head across country... [To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar continued]

Arliss Howard and Dennis Quaid play brothers who have the power to start fires with their minds. Debra Winger is the woman they love who is, oddly enough, on house arrest for arson. She's married to Wilder (played by Howard). I either love Dennis Quaid or hate him, and in this one I hate him. Hate's too strong a word,... [Wilder Napalm continued]