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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Cary Elwes,
Robin Wright,
Mandy Patinkin,
Wallace Shawn,
Andre the Giant
Director:
Rob Reiner
Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his sceptical grandson (Fre...
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Billy Crystal,
John Goodman,
Mary Gibbs,
Steve Buscemi,
James Coburn
Director:
Billy Crystal, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter
The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors. Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great d...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Kenneth Branagh,
Julie Christie,
Billy Crystal,
Gerard Depardieu,
Charlton Heston
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh's four-hour production of Shakespeare's full text for Hamlet is visually lush (shot in 70mm, which is rarely done) and full of fascinating story moments that normally get cut from shorter stage versions. (Your idea of what kind of fellow Polonius is may change quite a bit.) The unexpurgated approach is truly enlightening, and Branagh intermittently succeeds at giving familiar moments in the drama an original cinematic spin, including Hamlet's spooky confrontation with his father's ghost (Brian Blessed). (Branagh also imposes some Hollywood glitter on the proceedings by casting the likes of Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Charlton Heston and Jack Lemmon in t...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Robert De Niro,
Billy Crystal,
Lisa Kudrow,
Joe Viterelli,
Cathy Moriarty
Director:
Harold Ramis
Analyze That has more bada bing than its lukewarm box office reception would lead you to expect. Analyze This (1999) had the advantage of a then-fresh idea--Robert De Niro as a neurotic mob boss seeking therapy with reluctant shrink Billy Crystal--but that idea's stale (and has been handled more authentically in The Sopranos), so this sequel relies on established chemistry and zesty dialogue that matches the original. There's nothing wrong with a retread when it's this funny, and De Niro's latter-day penchant for comedy suits him well when, as kingpin Paul Vitti, he lures Dr Sobel (Crystal) into a prison breakout scheme involving faked catatonia and <...
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Richard Benjamin,
Kirstie Alley,
Billy Crystal,
Judy Davis
Director:
Woody Allen
Woody Allen roared back at his detractors with Deconstructing Harry, a bitterly funny treatise about the creative process. Known to mine his often tumultuous personal life for his movies, the embattled writer-director-star didn't bother to make his alter ego likable in this movie: Harry Block (Allen) pops pills, frequents prostitutes and cheats on the women in his life, then writes about their foibles in thinly disguised fiction. No wonder they're all furious with him. As Harry journeys to his alma mater with a hooker, ill pal and kidnapped son, a series of flashbacks unravel, juxtaposing Harry's relationships with their "slightly exaggerated" fictional coun...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Danny DeVito,
Billy Crystal,
Kim Greist,
Anne Ramsey,
Kate Mulgrew
Director:
Danny DeVito
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Billy Crystal,
John Goodman,
Mary Gibbs,
Steve Buscemi,
James Coburn
Director:
David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter
The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why Monsters, Inc., for all its wondrous computer-animated artistry, its smart humour and its family-friendly appeal, doesn't quite capture the naïve charm of its predecessors. Nevertheless, John Goodman and Billy Crystal, as scare-champions Sulley and Mike, are a great d...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Billy Crystal,
Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,
Bruno Kirby,
Steven Ford
Director:
Rob Reiner
Highly influential, When Harry Met Sally revitalised (in 1988) the moribund romantic comedy genre, made a superstar of Meg Ryan, and in two minutes of heavy breathing gave cinema one of its most memorable scenes. Set over 12 years in New York, young professionals Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) go from meeting to becoming friends to, well--this is a romantic comedy. Benefiting from an observant and witty script by Nora Ephron, it also offers insight into the differences between men and women. More importantly it's very funny, though the most hilarious scene is also the least believable: Sally is really too conventional to do that in a crowded restaura...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Robert De Niro,
Billy Crystal,
Lisa Kudrow,
Chazz Palminteri,
Kresimir Novakovic
Director:
Harold Ramis
Cast Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal together in a film and it should be a sucker's bet as to who's going to be funnier and who's going to give the more nuanced performance. Somehow, though, De Niro walks away with most of the laughs, mugging gleefully through Analyze This, a buddy action-comedy about a mob boss (De Niro, naturally) suffering from panic attacks who makes a shrink (Crystal, naturally) an offer he can't refuse--actually, it's not really an offer, it's a command. The good doctor is forced to help the gangster get in touch with his feelings. Had the brilliant TV series The Sopranos not underscored how thin and formulaic director-cowriter Harold...
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Billy Crystal,
Robert Guillaume,
Katherine Helmond,
Richard Mulligan,
Cathryn Damon
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