The Goods: Film Reviews
Buried early in Tom Hanks’s filmography is a fascinating little drama about the bruised souls of stand-up comedians, arriving a full twenty years before Judd Apatow would probe the exact same topic in his opus Funny People.
It’s tough to overstate how good Tom Hanks is in this movie, and also how important it was in his career arc.
Sometimes it’s a relief to watch a movie that’s exactly what it says on the tin.
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.
Of all the moral panics from the last half century, Dungeons and Dragons is one of the most inexplicable to me.
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.
It’s actually kind of remarkable how little works in The Man with One Red Shoe.
Whether Splash earns a thumbs up as opposed to a thumbs sideways depends entirely on whether you, personally, would welcome a nude 24-year-old Daryl Hannah running up to you and kissing you.
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.