Tag Archives: Michael Lerner

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer’s block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After being the victim of a cruel prank in high school a crazed killer seeks revenge on those responsible at their 10 year high school reunion. REVIEW: I remember seeing Class Reunion (aka National Lampoon’s Class Reunion) on cable one Friday night back in 1985 or so and even though I didn’t get some of the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Charlie’s ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up–a rural town in the Midwest–to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don’t believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he …

SYNOPSIS: “Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the curse’s seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind …

SYNOPSIS: A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer. REVIEW: Sequels should be looked at as movies in their own right – just in case the first was missed and how they function as follow ups to the original. With horror/thrillers there are countless examples of sequels missing the freshness of the first and often …