ALL ABOUT EVE
A movie that deals with stardom, its rewards and pitfalls. This is a black and white movie, character driven by Anne Baxter and Betty Davis and a pleasure to watch, because the script is tight, and the acting superb.
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY
A very funny movie about a playwright and the travails he must face in order to actualize his dream. He is faced with a cast of characters with wry and witty humor. The comedy comes from the imagination and also from the script. Dianne Weist is delightful as the aging ingenue who tells John Cusack time and again ’’Don’t Speak.’’ Jennifer Tilly is funny and a pleasure to watch.
A RAGE IN HARLEM
A movie about ’’GOLD’’. How you get it, how you keep it, and ultimately how you lose it. Robin Givens is at her best as a women with desire, and the character to take what she wants.
The MIGHTY
This movie will make you cry. It is a movie about what it takes when life is short and interrupted by what others would perceive as a reason not to live. Sharon Stone is in the movie, not a major player, but nice to see without the sex, drugs and rock and roll.
PRIMARY COLORS
John Travolta played the roll of his life, and should have been rewarded with an Academy award for his performance, as a man with good intentions, but an eye for the ladies, and most of them not his wife.
FIRE
This is a movie about desires, and the strength it takes to circumvent cultural dictates. Shabana Azmi rules!
THE WAR OF THE ROSES
Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas play a dueling couple, who decide to divorce due to irreconcilable differences, and the problems that ensue when the property must be divided.
GLORIA
A wonderful movie about a women, Gena Rowlands, who through default becomes the caretaker of a small boy who’s family has been murdered. The young boy who falls for her is brilliant.
I AM THE ONE I WANT
This is a comedy routine of Margaret Cho who bares her soul, and her comedy to the world, she is extremely funny, irreverent, and a bit risque.
SERIAL MOM
An irreverent look at a model housewife who finds killing a necessary evil. Kathleen Turner takes on suburbia, and evokes evil in disguise. A serial killer with a manicured lawn. ’’Hilarious.’’
Certainly, there are others, but these I find extremely rewarding on one level or another.