THE prequel to Ghost Rider was criticised for not translating the titular Marvel Comics character properly. Nicolas Cage was said to not have given his best in playing Johnny Blaze, being too stone-faced in most of the scenes.
MUSIC Of The Heart, a 1999 film, is based on the inspiring work of American violinist and music teacher Roberta Guaspari, now aged 64, in Harlem, New York.
KUALA LUMPUR: THE DVD may look like it’s a blockbuster pirate movie, with pictures of the cast decked in pirate outfits, but a closer look will reveal that the production is nothing more than an X-rated film.
WHEN Max (Wesley Snipes) visits his HIV-positive friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr) in New York, he meets Karen (Nastassja Kinski) at his hotel. He is smitten with her and they enjoy a passionate night together. But he returns to Los Angeles the next day to his wife Mimi (Ming Na Wen) and kids.
A FILM noir tale about a sheriff, Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson), who promises the mother of a murdered girl that he will find her killer. That sets the spiral of his ruin.
REPLICANT is about a psychotic serial killer “The Torch†(Van Damme) who kills women with children and then burns the corpses. The killer sometimes calls the detective-in-charge, Jake Riley (Michael Rooker) just to mess with the latter’s mind.
TELEKOM Malaysia treated 3,500 UniFi subscribers to the recent HyppTV Moonlight Movies Night, the second in a series first held in January.
TEACHERS are such a maligned lot so movies like this 1995 gem help show us how inspirational their profession can be, and is. This story is about musician Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) who reluctantly takes up teaching music back in the 1960s, and soon finds its his vocation.
BEAUTIFUL sisters, Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne (Natalie Portman), compete for the love of King Henry VIII of England (Eric Bana), but each has a different aim in mind.
PROFESSOR Trevor Anderson (Fraser) is given the responsibility of taking care of his nephew Sean (Hutcherson) while Sean’s mother prepares to move to Canada. She gives a box to Trevor which belonged to his brother Max, who’s missing. In it, Trevor finds a book that tells about Max’s last journey.