Highly Recommended
1. "10"
2. Spaceballs
3. Army of Darkness
4. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
5. Rage at Dawn

Recommended
1. Undercover Brother
2. The Evil Dead II
3. Pure Country
4. Patton
5. Platoon

Your Cup of Tea?
1. The Big Kahuna
2. The Evil Dead
3.
4.
5.

Not So Much
1. American Vampire
2. The Thirteen Ghosts
3. The Last Stand
4.
5.

Did you REALLY think I was going to come up with a snappy title for every category of movie out there? Well it ain't gonna happen. See below for movies that don't fall into a favored category, that you may not have seen, where a recommendation or warning could really come in handy.

But just for kicks, I'll include a snappy category for each in parantheses.

Deliverance
South of the Mason-Dixon
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty
Woo dog, what a movie! Y'all got to check out this classic story of a peaceful canoeing trip by 4 friends and businessmen down the Cahulawassee River in rural Georgia. Heh heh heh . . . with a folksy soundtrack including "Feudin' Banjos", Burt Reynolds as you've never seen him, and gap-toothed rednecks yearning for bacon, you're in for a real treat! Oh, by the way, this movie is not appropriate for children under -- well, actually this movie is just not appropriate. It's wicked good though, a terrific movie, if only you can bear to watch some of the more dicy scenes.

The Big Kahuna
So Many Levels
Starring: Danny DeVito, Kevin Spacey, Peter Facinelli
Adapted from a play, and you can tell. Your Cup of Tea? The whole thing is dialogue. Ignore the cover of the movie -- this is no feel-good comedy, and it's not exactly a family film either. Spacey's character wouldn't quite make a sailor blush, but he uses a few expressions taboo in polite conversation.

The Big Kahuna (besides being about the life of salesmen and one sale in particular) is about life & death & God (it's based on a play, remember?) adn gives the subjects a sensitive treatment. Spacey is hyper, DeVito fatigued, and Facinelli naive. Some parts are very amusing; it actually inspired me to exclaim "That works on so many levels!" even though I hate that phrase. The film's key strength is that is considers real people who lead real lives, although of course they're actors.

The Evil Dead
Funny horror trilogies
Starring: Bruce Campbell & the Necronomicon
If the term "tree rape" gives you pause, you might want to give this one a pass in favor of The Evil Dead II or Army of Darkness. Nasty freakiness as college students become possessed by murderous ancient spirits (thus "the evil dead") one by one in a remote cabin. This was made to be a drive-in horror movie, and it's certainly scary at times, but . . . sometimes it's so ridiculous you'll be laughing at it. In any case it launched the careers of Bruce Campbell and director Sam Raimi.

The Evil Dead II
Funny horror trilogies
Starring: Bruce Campbell & the Necronomicon
Review coming soon.

Army of Darkness
Funny horror trilogies
Starring: Bruce Campbell & Embeth Davidtz . . . & the Necronomicon
Review coming soon.

Blade Runner
Origami
Starring: Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos
Not bad, but you're not missing anything. This has been spun as a sci-fi classic, but it's really just unique. Harrison Ford is a blade runner, a detective of sorts who hunts down & kills 'replicants', bio-engineered robots who look and act like humans. If you're one of those folks who like to "ooh" and "ahh" and think deep thoughts about "what is humanity?", Blade Runner is must-see science fiction. The rest of us can take it or leave it.

American Vampire
Sucks
Starring: Carmen Electra
No. Carmen Electra, bless her heart, doesn't even hardly appear in the movie. You'll be hard pressed to find something of hers (meaning a movie) that's decent, but scuttlebutt says The Chosen One is high in calcium.

Thirteen Ghosts (Thir13en Ghosts)
Entirely worthless More thriller than horror, but without the thrills, or action; poor plot, just entirely lacking. No character development: it seems all the creative energy, such as there was, went into creating the ghosts. Weak weak weak! Well, okay, it does have Tony Shalhoub of Monk fame.