My Favorite Year

Pros: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, supporting cast, script, direction
Cons: Comic drunks will not sit well with everybody

Live television can be a fertile ground for gaffes, in spite of the best possible preparation. That ground grows more fertile when a show hires a notorious womanizer and drunk to host a live comedy show. This scenario, though, serves as the premise for ...

Pros: Peter O'Toole and the rest of the fine cast
Cons: Perhaps a bit too lightweight for its own good.

It's tough to begrudge Ben Kingsley the Oscar he won for playing the lead role in Gandhi. I tried watching it again early this year and as filmmaking goes, it's horrible. But for over three hours, Kingsley dominates the screen. And since...

Pros: cast, story, sense of adventure
Cons: mobster subplot, some gags don't work, drags in middle

"My Favorite Year" may not be a great film, but it is an entertaining comedy that provides several memorable characters. The film does drag in the middle, some comic scenes don't quite work, and there is an unnecessary mobster subplot. Still,...

Pros: This film has a MASSIVE heart...
Cons: The comedy and the tragedy elements clash a bit... drags sometimes.

At the moment one realizes the world is always going to be slightly larger than you think it is... well, that moment is called an epiphany.

During this schlocky comedy featuring the legendary Peter O'Toole and the pre-"Perfect...

Pros: funny, great cast, wonderful dialogue
Cons: younger people might have a hard time with the setting

This is such a cute movie. By the standards of today, it is not much of a movie. No nudity, no violence, no cursing, nothing explodes. But that’s why I love this movie so much. It takes us back to a supposedly innocent time and lets us enjoy ourselves ...