Hudson Movie Reviews

This movie is a typical crime drama with a twist ending that can be figured out in the beginning. Neither the plot nor the characters are really that deep. There are some subplots that just make the movie feel very static. Such as the ex-wife sleeping with Mickey's boss. That doesn't fit very well and would have done better lying on the editing room floor. Although, I do have to say that the saving grace of this movie is Kiefer Sutherland.

Now, I have always liked Kiefer Sutherland, but I never sought out his movies. I picked this one up simply because it stuck my fancy. Kiefer Sutherland plays a cop who develops the ability to see the future by touching things. Kind of like Johnny Smith on Stephen King's The Dead Zone. After watching it, I now feel the need to see every movie he's ever made. What a great film! His performance in it was excellent, the plot was suspenseful, what more do you need for a great movie? Check this movie out, it's definitely worth it.

Keifer Sutherland continues to grow as an actor, and the sky is the limit. The way he portrayed his character was Oscar material in my book. He has a great command of emotion and he puts everything he has into his character. The emotion on his face as he felt the pain of the murdered victims was one of, if not "the" best performance I have seen in recent memory. I just wonder why this terrific movie never got the attention it deserved. Maybe word of mouth will do it....Buy it..I did.

And Keifer, if your reading this you should really look for movies scripts that will play on your talent as a leading man....You have a huge female following, and as a woman, I would love to see you in more romantic settings....You have that "look" the fire in your eyes that every woman secretly craves. Don't ever stop acting, even though I know you have interests in directing...half the world would miss it very much.

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In these two films (Sport & Bedfellows), Rock Hudson finally shows he can STAR instead of just co-star in a movie.

It's a welcome change to see him carry the day (even if barely) while towing the leggy Paula and the chestie Gina along with him.

Usually, if Rock's not seen getting his brains bashed in by Liz Taylor in Giant, he's being taken to the cleaners by Doris Day in the Doris/Rock trilogy.

This time out he does some keen outdoor stuff (in Sport), and some good flashback work (in Bedfellows) many years before Tarantino started relying on flipping back and forth in time to a fault.

Yes, it was good to see the Rock avoid letting his roles crumble for a change!

Both DVDs here get 5 stars since they were decent transfers in their correct widescreen version, and contained the original trailers.

This wonderful twofer from Universal bundles together two of Rock Hudson's best 60s comedies, MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? and STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.

MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? recounts the adventures of angling 'expert' Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) who is invited to take part in a prestigious fishing tournament. However, Roger can't even throw a line, let alone catch a fish! When press agent Abigail Page (the delightful Paula Prentiss) finds out about Roger's problem, she decides to give him the ultimate crash course in fishing...

The film features a delightful musical score by Henry Mancini as well as fine supporting performances from Maria Perschy and Charlene Holt. The DVD includes the trailer. (Single-sided, dual-layer disc).

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS pairs Rock Hudson with sex-bomb Gina Lollobrigida (they also starred together in COME SEPTEMBER). Hudson plays Carter Harrison, a womanising company exec who marries Antonia (Lollobrigida), an Italian spitfire who is heavily into art and politics. When their marriage fails, Carter doesn't hear from Tony for many years, until his boss decides the Carter will get a promotion if he can prove that he is a respectable (and, more to the point, MARRIED) man. He decides to lead Tony on to get the promotion but finds himself falling in love with her all over again. The memorable supporting cast includes Terry-Thomas, Nancy Kulp, Gig Young, Arthur Haynes and Edward Judd. The DVD includes the trailer. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).

This release is part of a new wave of classic releases from Universal. Also look out for "Send Me No Flowers", "A Countess from Hong Kong", "The Thrill of It All!" and "Pillow Talk" (sold separately).

"Man's Favorite Sport" is well designed from beginning to end. Howard Hawks directed it. Do not know if it is a Hawks signature but this movie is a little chatty like "Bringing up Baby" ASIN: B00003CX9A and "Monkey Business" ASIN: 6302484448
Roger Willoughby (Rock Hudson) is found in several precarious positions by his fiancée. Once he has his tie caught in "Easy Muller's (Maria Perschy) zipper. In addition, of course Abigail (Paula Prentiss) is spotted coming from his bedroom in her night attire.
Norm Alden plays John Screaming Eagle, a local Indian who speaks like Tonto, and sells many sacred things such as Custer's scalp.
In the end, they are carried away. You will be carried away also by this great comedy.
You can ignore or watch "Strange Bedfellows" as you will.

While I was watching this film I couldn't help but think of Woody Allen films. This movie is very much like some of his films. Something about sex focuses on the sex lives of three married couples and there various stages and insecurities about fadelity. The film opens at a dinner party where a guest, Art Witz(Jason Alexzander), proposes to the three seemingly happy couples that monogomy is not natural. The rest of the film covers the journey these people take to answer that question. I found this film quite entertaining. The cast was very good. Each character had there own sort of neurotic qualities that made them unique. To be more specific one character uses the same line over and over to pick up women, another has a fetish for porn(which leads to a hilarious cameo from Ron Jeremy), another a liking for "special" massages, and one character is obsessed with larger women. All this makes for some really funny stuff. I thought the film was well edited. It seemed to know just when to cut, never too much, which is a credit to the director Adam Rifkin. I recommend this film. It delivers exactly what it promises with it's title. I said earlier it reminded me of a Woody Allen film, well yes, but without New York, and with graphic sex scenes(Allen never has these). If you like this film I also suggest Friends and Lovers which is very similar in context to this film. If you like comedies about sex you will like Something About Sex.

You will recognize almost everyone in this film and I don't think it ever even made the big screen. This is one of those pictures that became a cult classic on cable and video. If you're not yet a Hudson Leick fan-and if you're not, we'll send a few of the boys around to speak wit youz-buy this now because when it finally hits network TV, her entire role will be in the program director's VCR, not on your screen. I have no idea why they changed the name from Denial to Something About Sex but I can only imagine that it was...and still is...too hot to handle. I've never seen such a classy combination of sex and humor and, as a licensed private detective, I am compelled by law to give it 5 Stars.

Let me make this perfectly clear,the only reason why I even heard of this movie,rented this movie and ultimatly bought this movie was because of the infamous sex scene with Hudson Leick AKA
Callisto to Xena fans.And yes,the scene is really,really good and yes,Hudson Leick is really,really sexy!If you're an admirer of Hudson Leick/Callisto(which 9 out of 10 you are if you're checking out this review)then buy this video as it is extremely rare.She is not credited on the box cover nor in the opening credits,but you will find her name at the end.If you can buy this movie for a good price,then do so!

I liked this movie for its color which evokes the colors of Indian dieties such as Hanuman. Trippy acid colors.

The story is over the top, but enjoyable like Johnny Guitar.

This movie proves that it never pays to refuse dinner invites from dashing men, especially when a refusal of lunch with them earlier has sharpened their persistance.

This movie was actually not so bad. Even though it was very soap-operaish. I did keep wondering when Bob Merrick was going to accidentally paralyse the daughter.

I liked seeing Agnes Moorehead in a non-snappish role, and Jane Wyman did fine as a blind person, although I felt both of them gave more in their roles in "Johnny Belinda".

This wasn't a picture I could really take seriously - it was a bit sappy, very hokey, and so forth - but enjoyable for laughs and didn't drag for a minute. I recommend it for fun, but for something more serious do the Johnny Belinda thing.

A previous reviewer described this film as predictable. Of course it is, it is part of the genre. I thinks she misses the point completely. It is a romance, a saga, and of course it must have a happy end. It goes without saying.
It is my first Sirk, I taped it a couple of weeks ago and saw it today. It felt like going back to the films I saw when I was young. And I loved it, The lush Technicolor, the beautiful sets, the lovely costumes together with some fine acting, a well written script and a lovely melodrama. I cannot think of a better way to spending a boring Sunday than laying in my sofa watching this brilliant entertainment.

Don't take my middle of the road three star rating as a sign of apathy. This movie is one you will either love or hate, and in my case I very much enjoyed certain things and very strongly disliked others.

Obivously the big draw in this movie is Leonardo DiCaprio. I have to say, he does an outstanding job with this role. In the true story of drugged-out high schooler Jim Carroll, he thrives on the type of script Academy Awards are made out of: tons of opportunities for him to be high, low, enraged, in sorrow. There are a lot of opportunities to use his physicality in the role, and he seizes every one. In particular I think of his drug withdrawal sequence and he and his friends' mourning the death of a close friend by getting drunk and playing basketball in the rain.

The plot has a sixteen year old Jim Carroll playing high school basketball. Three of his teammates are his best friends, and when not on the basketball court, they tend to find all kinds of "innocent" trouble around New York (knocking over food vendor carts, for instance). Another outlet of energy for Jim alone is his diary where he records sensations he feels in his young life.

His search for sensation and his friends' desire to find trouble coalesces in experiments with drugs like cocaine and herione. As Jim notes in the monologue of the movie, there is no such thing as a part-time addict. They fall further and further into the downward spiral in an effort to evade pressures from school teachers, coaches, and parents.

Some of the scenes in this movie are very gripping and visceral. However, the links between these scenes tend to be bogged down in poor directing. I realize this movie was a lower budgeted one, but there really is no excuse for having a movie made in 1995 that looks like it was made in 1985. While the performance by DiCaprio is extraordinary, the directing is lackluster. Poor camera angles, helpless lighting, bit part actors who look and sound amateur; those should all be blamed on the director.

However, this movie is worthwhile if you are one who has a particular interest in either Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg (he stars as a main character and one of Jim Carroll's best friends), or the subject matter. I have to say I thought "Trainspotting" handled the subject of drug use extremely well, but this movie is right up there in the ability to depict the sensations felt by those addicted.

Forget "Titanic" and "The Gangs of New York", one of Leonardo DiCaprio's best performances is right here in the '90s film "The Basketball Diaries". I'll admit, when I first saw this movie I was a prepubescent wanting to capture Leo in all his glory at the height of the "Titanic" craze. I didn't get this movie at all the first time I watched it, but I could sure tell it was graphic, violent, and at times, very sickenly disturbing.
It took a few more years till I could digest "Diaries" and appreciate it for what it really is: an indie movie with strong performances and grit.

This movie is a tale of young man's struggle through his teen years. In the beginning, he has it all, but then starts using drugs for a thrill. When his habit becomes and addiction, this movie takes you on a ride that brings the dark side of drugs to life. DiCaprio's work in this movie is sheer genius.. A must see!

If you know anything about exploitation film, you should know what to expect if you pick up a Fred Olen Ray or Jim Wynorski film: Lots of nudity, goofball humour, and bad acting. This one's directed by Ray under the pseudonym Daniel Peters, but surprisingly, the film stands out among the sleaze crowd thanks to an unusually satisfying story with a terrific ending.

The story centers around a rich womanizer named Jack (a suitably sleazy Tim Abell) who bullies every woman in his life into sleeping with him, from his secretary Diane (Robyn Harris) to his foreign maid Rosa (Amy Rochelle). He's engaged to voluptuous airhead Kristy (Griffin Drew), who starts to get an idea of what he's up to. Diane and Kristy meet through chance and make an alliance against Jack, resulting in a hilarious final 20 minutes that's almost pro-feminist (!).

All the sex scenes, as befits this genre, get tiring awfully quickly, and lead Griffin Drew is an atrocious actor. Her dialogue delivery sounds like she's reading the script for the first time. But there is a real saving grace in English actress Harris who, although more known for her eye-popping figure than her ability, has a way of chomping scenery that's highly pleasing and rare in this kind of film. Her character is also stronger than usual, rather than the usual sex object of video erotica. And Abell's downright sleaziness works well for the plot.

This is one of those few straight-to-video erotic films that actually entertains outside of its nude scenes. And it somehow manages to soften its misogyny (standard in this genre) with Harris' character. No woman I know ever truly likes this kind of movie, but this one would come close to appealing across the genders. Strange indeed!

This is an inspiring story about new immigrants in America at the turn of the century. The Olaafsons are a family driven out of their native Sweden by economic depression. They mean to head for the plains of North Dakota, where a cousin has won a hard existence from the soil by farming barley. But then Mama Olaafson, who in her native Sweden has learned age-old neuromuscular massage techniques from an ancient "wise woman" in her village, persuades the family that they will do better by opening a Swedish massage parlor in East Orange, NJ. The rest is an uplifting success story. At first the clients are a few drunken sailors lost on their way to Hoboken, but then, one day, a U.S. senator with a badly sprained back comes in for a massage. The news spreads, and soon "Mama Masseuse" has a business that includes bankers and lawyers and wealthy doctors. She dispenses wisdom along with her physical therapy, and eventually East Orange society begins to feel the effect: what had been a slightly run-down industrial town becomes a thriving center of commerce and civic consciousness. The oldest son of the family, Trig Olaafson, runs for mayor and wins by four votes, then earns enormous popularity by shutting down the "porn rental district" in the city, driving the sleazebags and the porn consumers out of East Orange. (A great scene in the film shows him breaking down the door of a DVD Porno-Rental store with a fire axe, then pouring kerosene over bins and stacks of squalid DVD porn and lighting a match.) At the end of the story, the Olaafsons have become fully American, East Orange has gotten rid of the pimply sleazeballs who rent out and "use" DVD porn, and morning has come back to America. An inspiring film. Five stars.

Peter Jackson would be rolling over in his grave... if he were dead.

This movie doesn't merely give a nod to Jackson's horror-comedy classic "Dead Alive" (1992) (aka "Brain Dead"), it steals liberally from it but lacks any of the charm or over-the-top gore of its predecessor.

In short, avoid this dog LIKE THE PLAGUE.

If you find Python's "Undertaker sketch" and "Black Knight scene" hilarious, and enjoy the strange storylines of classic Twilight Zone episodes, then you'll get a kick out of this off-the-wall black comedy.
Ed is sold on a sales pitch by a mysterious man in a white suit (I think he also sold Springfield a monorail) that will bring his beloved dead mother back to life. Alas, things don't go especially well and Ed soon finds his reborn mother chasing dogs down the street with a chainsaw.
Great casting with Steve Buscemi as mama's boy; Ned Beatty as his peeping Tom uncle; and Sam Jenkins as the beautiful new-girl-next-door.

Goes to show that marketing counts for so much- or else I am sure that this movie would be an underground classic. It is utterly over-the-top hilarious. If I'm going to have to suffer all the brainless comedies that appear every year and make zillions of dollars, then why can't there be just a few more zany gems like this one?

just reading the other reviews on this page just goes to show how stupid americans are, i mean, did they even watch this movie? Its the worst movie ive ever seen in my life! It uses recycled footage, it uses an Israeli Kfir fighter as the 'secret' fighter, it has bad acting, and so many other reasons why its crap.

Pretty good action flick! I especially liked the effects in this film! When the Jet "cloakes" it is amazing..........WOW!

When Michael Dudikoff's hero in "Black Thunder" asks Richard Norton's turncoat why he's in the middle of a hijack and ransom
scheme for a zealously guarded fighter jet, Norton simply replies, "Getting rich." Versatile actor Norton delivers the line so craftily, and so convincingly, that no audience of "Black
Thunder" will ever second-guess this bad guy's motivation. As
Dudikoff's prey, Norton delivers a portrayal of the treasonous "Ratcher" (great baddie name)that lifts this plane chase movie off terra firma and out of the "formulaic action picture" category. Top marks for this fast paced movie with thanks to actor Richard Norton!

Neither Vincent Price nor Keith Michel can sing! That fact alone goes a long way towards destroying this rather bad presentation of the absolutely superb operetta that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote. What a contrast to the splendid job that the Canadian Stratford Company did with Gilbert and Sullivan.

While this video is worrth seeing, and perhaps owning, so that you have a copy of Ruddigore (which is hard to find) in your Gilbert and Sullivan library; I couldn't help but feel that the production of this opera suffered from the low-budget video tricks used to make it feel like other than a stage production. This was clearly a made-for-TV special that only a true G&S fan could love.

There is also way too much shameless mugging and general hammery in the production; Vincent Price is the exception to this, as his acting performance is fine, although his singing voice would never get him into D'Oyly Carte.

Other than this, the singing performances are fine. The staging interferes with the performance; picture a college stage production set interspersed with video bits reminiscent of the worst British pop videos of the late 1970s, and you get the idea.

It's true the RUDDIGORE is a problematical vehicle, but this production proves that, if properly handled, it ranks with the best of Gilbert and Swllivan's output. All of the major roles are particularly well cast and played, and the beginning of act two -- with the awakening portraits of gruesome ancestors -- is a marvel. My two daughters term this sequence the best Gilbert and Sullivan they've seen on videotape, and they've seen quite alot. This is the best of the four BBC productions I've seen on tape, and is wonderful fun. Don't miss it!

Yet again, Madacy has gone out of their way to find the worst prints imaginable to sell to the unsuspecting viewing public.

The first feature, "The Screaming Skull" (a title that's given me a headache for decades!), is exceptionally muddy and dark, obviously an extremely poor dub from a several-generations old video source. The second feature on the tape, "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" is pure pan n' scan from a very scuffed and chopped print. Distortions and color blur are obvious on the edges of the picture.

In "The Screaming Skull", young and nervous newy wed is terrorized by a skull, supposedly that of her new hubby's ex, who died from a crushed skull/drowning in a lilly pond. Grade Z acting all around.

While "The Screaming Skull" is a classic low-budget horror flick from the 1950's, "The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman" is of European 1971 vintage.

In this one, two college girls travel to eastern Europe in search of a legendary grave of a lady vampire. They meet up with a spooky guy when the run out of gas. Naturally, he's a werewolf. Well, with at least one of the two college girls, I'd be howling at the moon, too.

Anyway, they stupidly awaken the lady vampire, and after a bunch of killings, the werewolf and vampire have it out. Obviously the "director" was a fan of "The Six Million Dollar Man", because the lady vampires run and jump in slow motion (not as sexy as it sounds). There are hints of breast from time to time, but if there were any naughty scenes originally, they appear to have been cut (European versions have five to six more minutes then the US drive-in release, which this seems to be).

I would strongly urge DVD collectors to avoid any of the horror titles in this Madacy set.

I gave the disc two stars only because of the interactive menus. They are the only part of the disc that was nicely done, and there is a Popeye cartoon added for "intermission".

There wasn't much problems like people,were saying. Sure the quality of these movies were like the quality of VHS, but don't spoil yourself with all of that, just watch the movie, that's what it's for. The only part of this DVD that skipped or really messed up for me was during the Werewolf vs Vampire woman trailer, when they were showing a close-up of the moon it kind of skipped but that wasn't a biggy. This DVD features trailers from the 2 movies on this, and Draculas Daughters. There is also an intermission cartoon when one movie is finished. I found that to be pretty neat, The Screaming Skulls trailer was funny, because it said that if you died when watching this movie that they would pay for burial cost. The only thing you would die of from watching this film is the price you payed to see it! The Werewolf vs Vampire Woman was an interesting movie I had never heard of before owning this DVD. It has alot more blood and gore than I expected (which was none)! This DVD is worth a look, really!

Want to know if you'll either love this or hate it? Okay, here goes:

The "screaming skull" makes it's appearance by being rolled across the floor.

Now, do you A) think that that's funny or B) think that that's stupid. If you chose A, then you're in luck, this double feature is for you. If you chose B, well then why are you even looking at reviews of this schlock?