Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | One of the better renditions of the tale, thanks to John Barrymore's brilliant silent performance. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Tombstone (1993) | It has problems — a LOT of problems — but as bubblegum westerns go, there's also a lot to like. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Working Girl (1988) | 80s corporate hokum rescued by another very funny turn from Sigourney Weaver. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Rising Sun (1993) | Snipes at his coolest still can't save this xenophobic piece of studio flotsam. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Vols. 1-5 (1984) | So many great actors have played Sherlock Holmes, and yet the late Jeremy Brett may have trumped them all. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) | You cast Christopher Lee as a Bond villain and you find a way to blow it?! — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| The Portrait of a Lady (1996) | A handsome production, but the ass, she doth ache. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Witch Hunt (1995) | A demonstrably inferior sequel to the wonderful Cast A Deadly Spell — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 13, 2007 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 13%
| Dice Rules (1991) | To those of us who suffered through his brief moment in the spotlight, it's such a relief to say it: Andrew Dice who? — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 19, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 25%
| The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) | It's bad, it's been forgotten, and we can all move on with nary a second thought. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | The Pink Panther Film Collection (1964) | Quality rises and falls throughout this series, but Peter Sellers can always be counted on for a laugh. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 29%
| Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) | Try to defend it. I dare you. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Indiana Jones - The Adventure Collection (1981) | A terrific DVD package of Indy's trilogy of adventures. Do eveyone a favor, boys, and leave it at three. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted May 1, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Straw Dogs (1971) | Peckinpah's treatise on violence and masculinity is disturbing on a fundamental level… and equally difficult to forget. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| The Hard Way (1991) | Utterly unremarkable, but harmless and not without its charms. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 81%
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) | It's ironic that this, perhaps the weakest Bond film, contains the character's most important piece of development. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Fly Away Home (1996) | A lovely and unjustly forgotten family film. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Birds (1963) | Mediocre as melodrama, but the signature avian attacks are without equal. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Four Feathers (1939) | Exceptionally well-made swashbuckling, though its ethos is appalingly outdated. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| My Cousin Vinny (1992) | Too dependent on convenient stereotypes and fish-out-of-water cliches, though the late Fred Gwynne is a welcome presence. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 0%
| Gunmen (1994) | Truly awful, though I'll never get tired of Patrick Stewart a'slummin'. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Last Tango in Paris (1972) | Ah, for the days when real grown-ups made erotic films. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 57%
| The Quick and the Dead (1994) | Raimi's gimmicky but endlessly inventive direction gives it plenty of gas, and the excellent cast takes it the rest of the way. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| James and the Giant Peach (1996) | The animated segments are wonderful, but they jar badly with the ill-conceived live-action pieces which open and close the film. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) | Excellent adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic story. Watch for the creative use of color in the otherwise B&W production. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 31%
| Krull (1983) | Cheesy, yes. Goofy, ridiculous, and even embarrassing. But it looks good and its terminal silliness becomes infectious after awhile. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Footloose (1984) | An 80s milestone, for better or for worse... and a key link to any game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| Tough Guys (1986) | A slight and breezy curtain call for one of Hollywood's best duos. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Horror of Dracula (1958) | One of Hammer's best outings, with Christopher Lee adding an indelible mark to the Dracula legacy — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Sep 2, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Edward Scissorhands (1990) | Burton's sweet Gothic fairy tale has lost none of its charm. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 9%
| Fair Game (1995) | Cindy Crawford can act; Joel Silver told us so, and he wouldn't lie to us... — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 97%
| Bullitt (1968) | A not-very-good movie redeemed by a car chase for the ages. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 87%
| Alphaville (1965) | New Wave classic. Set bold new standards. Whatever. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 83%
| Peter Pan (1953) | The boomers love it; they can have it. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| Dead Poets Society (1989) | It's best left as a fond memory, never to be held up to the light of day. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Raven (1963) | Gimmicky drive-in fare, though nobody can deliver that poem like Price. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 15%
| Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) | Oh yeah, the Bee Gees are much better than that other band. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Don Juan de Marco (1995) | Buoyant and lightweight... except for Brando, who is, in fact, rather heavy. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 19%
| Love Stinks (1999) | They got one word in the title right. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Man Who Would Be King (1975) | They don't make adventure movies like this anymore. Connery and Caine have rarely been better. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) | Great, grand piece of modern noir, with a unique twist that rethinks the genre even as it honors its finest elements. Great performances all around. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Niagara (1953) | Watchable, but otherwise unremarkable. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 83%
| The Tuskegee Airmen (1996) | Too self-important, too cliched, and too dismissive of the talent at its disposal. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| Dead Man (1996) | Bad, but not uninteresting — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Zatoichi - Adventures of Zatoichi (1964) | A fun piece of samurai pulp from a dependably entertaining series. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Sid & Nancy (1986) | A kick-your-teeth-in salute to Punkdom's self-immolating First Couple. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 14%
| Canadian Bacon (1994) | Moore's agit-prop is mildly amusing, but far too preachy to hold water. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Out for Justice (1991) | Ewww! Stinky… — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 29, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Network (1976) | It's creepy how prescient this one-time satire turned out to be. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 26, 2005 |
Rotten 0/5
| N/A | Dead Heat (1988) | Despite the overwhelming demand for Treat Williams/Joe Piscopo team-ups, this effort remains surprisingly hard to find. — Flipside Movie Emporium Posted Aug 26, 2005 |
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