Writer-director Paul Mazursky stumbled with the navel-gazing, wildly self-indulgent comedy The Pickle, a stinker by, for and about the veteran filmmaker.
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Nicolas Cage’s lean years kicked into low gear with the 2011 stinker Seeking Justice, where the Academy Award winner runs around New Orleans getting jerked around for no good reason, not unlike the film’s audience.
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In 1986 Stephen King did a fuck-ton of cocaine, published a 1,138 page novel called It and wrote, directed and appeared in a movie called Maximum Overdrive. At least two of these things were terrible, terrible mistakes.
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The 1986 post-apocalyptic thriller Solarbabies has a reputation for being the worst of the worst. That reputation is correct.
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Jerry Bruckheimer had the brilliant idea of remaking Fantasia with Jay Baruchel in the Mickey Mouse role. It was not a success.
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This is not good.
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Ray Liotta Month here at the Happy Place kicks off with a look at 1996’s stylish but confused Unforgettable, which brought director John Dahl’s hot streak (Kill Me Again, Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) to a screeching close.
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My patron-funded exploration of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Clinton-era prime continues with a fond appreciation of his wonderfully cheesy directorial debut The Quest, which features a delightful supporting turn by Roger Moore.
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Hoo boy. This one was NOT good.
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Hoo boy. This one was tough.
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