The Goods: Film Reviews
You’d be excused for watching the opening five minutes of this movie and wondering if you just stumbled into some sort of lost Brian De Palma masterpiece that was too gaudy for its time.
Sometimes it’s a relief to watch a movie that’s exactly what it says on the tin.
It’s tough to overstate how good Tom Hanks is in this movie, and also how important it was in his career arc.
Buried early in Tom Hanks’ filmography is a a light drama about comedians with broken personal lives.
There’s a 20-minute period towards the middle of the film where The Money Pit lives up to its slapstick potential, and it’s the hardest I’ve laughed in eons.
Of all the moral panics from the last half century, Dungeons and Dragons is one of the most inexplicable to me.
Back before Hollywood had properly figured out the Tom Hanks everyman persona, Volunteers provided a goofy little lark where Hanks plays a totally different type of protagonist.
Nothing in Common is a head-spinningly uneven film. It pairs some legitimately great performances and compelling ideas with a total dud of a script. What a waste.
Classic Dragnet is not something I’ve ever spent any time with.
There very well could be another movie that’s a better time capsule of the coked out party scene of the early ’80s than Bachelor Party… but I certainly haven’t seen it.