Production Year: 1994 - Horror - Director: Mike Nichols - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Plummer more
When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic... more
Wolf [DVD]
Sophisticated to a point, this well-executed wolf-man tale works due to its clever setting ... more
and enormous star power. We all know Jack Nicholson can go nuts but the script makes his character aware of his changes, sometimes for the better, early on. The setting, a publishing house in the middle of a takeover, gives the characters dramatic life before the horror elements kicks in. A senior editor about to get the boot, Nicholson's character becomes a new man after being bitten by a wolf. He takes on challenges at work, lives a more robust life and attracts a new love. But will his new-found energy consume him? Director Mike Nicholson keeps the action alive in the first half but the film peters out at the end with cheap theatrics and the overuse of slow motion. Michelle Pfeiffer has little to do as simply the love interest with a grittier than average personality. Better is James Spader as a smarmy colleague. Nicholson is in fine form, relying on his keen gift to spark interest (a twitch of the head, a look in the eyes), instead of heavy doses of movie make-up. Giuseppe Rotunno's sweeping camerawork sets the mood quite well.Wolfis easy to recommend, with the added feature it's hardly gratuitous.--Doug Thomas
Wolf DVD
Driving through a stormy night a wolf runs in front of Will Randall's car. Checking to ... more
see if it is okay Will (Nicholson) is bitten and the wolf disappears into the night. From this moment on Will begins to change in subtle ways that he cannot explain his senses quicken and he becomes dynamic and adventurous in every aspect of his life. However Will's new-found lust for life has a price and he finds it increasingly difficult to contain the wild and predatorial spirit that is also growing within him... Starring Jack Nicholson Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader Wolf is a supernatural tale with a delicious modern twist. Beware: the animal is out!
Wolf [DVD] [1994]
Sophisticated to a point, this well-executed wolf-man tale works due to its clever setting ... more
and enormous star power. We all know Jack Nicholson can go nuts but the script makes his character aware of his changes, sometimes for the better, early on. The setting, a publishing house in the middle of a takeover, gives the characters dramatic life before the horror elements kicks in. A senior editor about to get the boot, Nicholson's character becomes a new man after being bitten by a wolf. He takes on challenges at work, lives a more robust life and attracts a new love. But will his new-found energy consume him? Director Mike Nicholson keeps the action alive in the first half but the film peters out at the end with cheap theatrics and the overuse of slow motion. Michelle Pfeiffer has little to do as simply the love interest with a grittier than average personality. Better is James Spader as a smarmy colleague. Nicholson is in fine form, relying on his keen gift to spark interest (a twitch of the head, a look in the eyes), instead of heavy doses of movie make-up. Giuseppe Rotunno's sweeping camerawork sets the mood quite well.Wolfis easy to recommend, with the added feature it's hardly gratuitous.--Doug Thomas
Red Wolf [DVD] [1995]
Director Yuen Woo Ping'sThe Red Wolfis, likeUnder Siege(1992) andSpeed 2(1997), ... more
essentiallyDie Hardon a ship. However, rather than being "inspired by", this movie is virtually a Hong Kong remake of the Bruce Willis action classic, right down to the jump-off-the-roof crash-through-the-window highlight. The setting is New Year's Eve on a cruise liner which happens to be carrying a consignment of plutonium. Gangsters hijack the ship and it's up to an unnamed security officer (Kenny Ho) and tender-hearted pickpocket Lai (Christie Chung) to save the day. Budget limitations are revealed by only having about 60 passengers, and by an almost complete absence of shots of the sea, but the director manages to pack plenty of extremely violent action and by playing things straight generates considerable suspense from the formulaic story. Helping immensely are strong turns from Elaine Lui and Wing Cho as the psychotically ruthless main villains. Some of this film is very nasty indeed, so a tension-shattering detour into slapstick by Chung is simply bizarre, and the finale goes laughably OTT. The dubbing is mediocre butthe blend of furious marital arts andTerminator-style slaughter is still a winning combination for hardcore action fans.--Gary S Dalkin
Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Stanley Kubrick - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever New Yorker cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes middle age in New York's cutthroat social and business worlds.
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Sound: Dolby Digital
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Review: ...Nicholson is thoroughly sympathetic... [and] even more compelling after a wolf bite brings out the animal instincts... (Entertainment Weekly, 09/01/2009)
...Coaxes satirical bite from the trio of Nicholson, [Spader and Pfeiffer]... (Premiere, 09/01/2009)
...Nicholson is amazing, finding humor and poignancy....A rapturous romantic thriller with a darkly comic subtext... (Rolling Stone, 09/01/2009)
...The fun is waiting for the moment when the eyes glint, the teeth are bared, and Wolfman Jack makes his welcome entrance... (Sight And Sound, 09/01/2009)
...An intriguing thriller...Enjoyable for its humor and sophistication... (Variety, 09/01/2009)
Advantages: Classic 80's movie Disadvantages: None
...Teen Wolf
One of my favourite 80?s movies of all times has to be Teen Wolf. It?s one of those that you know all the lines to and can watch over and over again and still not get bored. I think it combines that classic 80?s cheesiness with the perfect mix of teen angst, and love and friendship to bring you a great film.
The basic plot for the show involves a Scott Howard, a high school student who is struggling with the fact that he is able to transform into a werewolf. He keeps this to himself for a while but upon divulging it to his father, finds out that he too is a werewolf and gives him advice on how to deal with it. Scott doesn?t really take his advice as he finds that, after some initial reservations from the other students it now gives him a edge at high school and he becomes the popular kid. Throw in a couple love interests...
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Advantages: Sophiscated storyline, unpredictable and swaying viewer's opinions throughout. Disadvantages: Some under developed characters. Not for the classic slasher fans.
...themselves 'Liar's Club', in the School Chapel, Owen begins to play a game called 'Wolf'. The aim of the game that one person (Dodger) to be the chair and decides who are the sheep and who is the wolf. The Wolf must deceit others by lying; convincing others that they are also the sheep and the Wolf is others.
As thrill junkies, the gang decided to up their stake by playing Wolf with the entire school without others knowing. They abused the story of true event where a fellow girl student was murdered in the woods no so long ago. The gang created a serial killer called 'The Wolf', who murders students on Halloween night. The girl was his first victim and he is on the hunt to kill others. In the modern day of technology, the gang uses a dummy email address to mass email the story about The Wolf to the rest of the students and other schools...
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Advantages: Tense, psychological horor in the main Disadvantages: Can get a bit gruesome for some maybe?
...Australia, land of dreams, beach parties, barbecues and back packers. A country where 30,000 people go missing every year (or so this film tells us), fortunately 90% of them turn up or are found within a month. That still leaves 3,000 people who vanish, never to be seen again, or possibly are found after one month? The Australian outback is an unforgiving place and it is possible some of these missing people just got lost there and were never found again, but then it is just as possible that what happened to them is just a little bit more down to who they met rather than where they were.
Wolf Creek tells the story of what happened to some of those missing people and is based, take note of that word, on a true story.
We open in Broome, a pleasant looking coastal town where two British girls, Chris & Lizzy, are nearing the end...
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