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A Lively Screen KISS

This energetic and exceptionally well-cast teen comedy begins in the fall of 1978 in Cleveland, where four fanatical young KISS fans are determined to attend a KISS concert in Detroit.

Their devotion quickly turns into a culture war, as the boys do battle with older and younger generations who have their own musical addictions. For some, it’s the Carpenters. For others, it’s disco. And there’s no middle ground between “KISS rocks” and “Disco rules.”

One of the KISS fans, Jam (Sam Huntington), has an uptight mother (Lin Shaye) who believes that Kiss really stands for Knights in Satan’s Service. One night, with a look of deep contentment on her scrunched-up face, she sits down to chain-smoke, sip a drink, read her Erma Bombeck book and play a Carpenters record. Read the rest of this entry »

The 100 Best American Films - AFI

Well, the American film community has spoken, and (surprise!) they like Citizen Kane. The American Film Institute unveiled its much-ballyhooed list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, “determined by a blue-ribbon panel of more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community.” Here at cine101, we published our list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time and we didn’t feel the need to consult 1,500 people before making our selections. Read the rest of this entry »

100 Best Movies of All Time

The list of the 100 greatest American movies of all time, the editors of cine101 represent 100 greatest movies of all time. We announced our own list of the 100 Best Movies of All Time. Of course, we didn’t bother with a prime-time TV special, and we didn’t feel the need to consult a “blue-ribbon [...]

Disney comedy misses the beat

John Hartl
The new Disney comedy, Off Beat, lives up to its title, but not in the ways you might hope for. The movie is unusual only in that it blends so many genres in an attempt to find one that might pay off.Part of it is a mistaken-identity love story, part of it is [...]

Casablanca

Romance War 1942
A classic example of an effort in which everything could have gone wrong but instead went perfectly right, to become the most splendidly romantic picture ever made. Set against the backdrop of espionage in wartime French Morocco, the story of enigmatic Casablanca nightclub owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and his unwitting reunion [...]

Patton

Drama War 1970
General George Patton was a brilliant student of military history, a master tactician, and an arrogant, foulmouthed bastard; in this Best Picture Academy Award winner, George C. Scott brings this extraordinary man to life in a charming, infuriating, Oscar-winning performance that fills the screen as few have. Best Director winner Franklin Schaffner’s [...]

The Terminator

Action 1984
The film that made director James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger household names. In a postapocalyptic world, machines battle humans for dominance. A cyborg travels from the future back to present-day Los Angeles to find and “terminate” the young woman (Linda Hamilton) whose unborn child will one day destroy the ruthless cyborgs.

The Thin Man

Noir Mystery 1934
Sophisticated banter ricocheted off the walls in this delightful romantic comedy about two people already happily married to one another. Retired detective Nick Charles (William Powell) is called back to duty to track down a missing inventor; with assistance from his delightful wife, Nora (Myrna Loy), and their wire-haired terrier Asta, he [...]

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the hottest day of the summer. Director Lee stars in the film, alongside Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, [...]

It Happened One Night

Romance Comedy 1934
The film that made Frank Capra famous is a gem of a screwball comedy, and it was the first film to sweep all five major Oscar categories. Fleeing her rich father, Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) meets up with a down-on-his-luck reporter, Peter Warne (Clark Gable). The two team up with exquisite comic [...]