1998 – Movie Mavericks Podcast

Godzilla (1998) – Review

May 18, 2020May 19, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, godzilla, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Jean Reno, kevin dunn, Maria Pitillo, Matthew Broderick, Michael Lerner, roland emmerich

Godzilla is the underwhelming follow up film from director Roland Emmerich (and co-scripter Dean Devlin) after their smash hit Independence

Comedy Drama Reviews

The Object of My Affection (1998) – Review

April 17, 2020May 18, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Alan Alda, Allison Janney, jennifer aniston, John Pankow, Nicholas Hytner, Nigel Hawthorne, paul rudd, Steve Zahn, The Object of My Affection, tim daly

Paul Rudd has such a warm on-screen presence that, during The Object of My Affection, I found myself inadvertently rooting

Reviews

Desperate Measures (1998) – Review

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Andy Garcia, Barbet Schroeder, brian cox, Desperate Measures, Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Keaton

Desperate Measures starts out with a preposterous scene and then continues to ratchet up the absurdity until the movie becomes

Comedy Reviews

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) – Review

February 3, 2020May 21, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Benicio Del Toro, cameron diaz, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, fear and loathing in las vegas, Flea, Gary Busey, Johnny Depp, Mark Harmon

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is an unheralded masterpiece from the late 1990s. Terry Gilliam has not only filmed

Horror Reviews

Phantoms (1998) – Review

October 21, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Ben Affleck, Clifton Powell, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Nicky Katt, Peter O'Toole, Phantoms, Rose MCGowan

While author Stephen King has found critical and commercial success with his film adaptation, fellow scribe Dean R. Koontz has

Comedy Reviews

Dead Man on Campus (1998) – Review

August 28, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Alan Cohn, Allison Hannigan, Dead Man on Campus, jason segel, Lochlyn Munro, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott

The would-be black comedy Dead Man on Campus is D.O.A.. This is a laugh less and infantile attempt to incorporate

Comedy Reviews

Woo (1998) – Review

June 19, 2019June 18, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Daisy Vs Mayer, Dave Chappelle, Duane Martin, Jada Pinkett-Smith, LL Cool J, Tommy Davidson, Woo

Jada Pinkett Smith radiates such warmth, charisma, and sex appeal that it’s hard to watch her drown on-screen trapped portraying

Family Reviews

Mulan (1998) – Review

March 6, 2019April 29, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Barry Cook, BD Wong, Eddie Murphy, George Takei, Harvey Fierstein, James Hong, Miguel Ferrer, Ming-Na Wen, Mulan, Pat Morita, Soon-Tek Oh, Tony Bancroft

Mulan is Disney’s yearly animated offering, and it is a beautifully realized tale set in feudal China and introduces us

Comedy Reviews

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) – Review

February 21, 2019March 24, 2019 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 1998, Blues Brothers 2000, Dan Aykroyd, Joe Morton, John Goodman, John Landis

Blues Brothers 2000 hit screens 18 years after the first film became a celebrated cult classic with mainstream appeal. The

Action Drama Reviews

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) – Review

February 6, 2019February 15, 2019 Jason Rugaard 1 Comment 1998, Gabriel Byrne, gerard depardieu, Jeremy Irons, john malkovich, leonardo dicaprio, Randall Wallace, The Man in the Iron Mask

The Three Musketeers reunite again. Although, this time under dire circumstances, in the moderately entertaining, but lightweight retelling of the

Horror Reviews

Vampires (1998) – Review

February 5, 2019February 14, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Daniel Baldwin, james woods, Maximilian Schell, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Tim Guinee, Vampires

John Carpenter’s Vampires is a western masked as a horror film. It’s got sparse dialogue spit out by bitter men

Drama Reviews

He Got Game (1998) – Review

January 9, 2019January 8, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Bill Nunn, Denzel Washington, He Got Game, Jim Brown, John Turturro, milla jovovich, Ned Beatty, Ray Allen, Roger Guenveur Smith, Rosario Dawson, Spike Lee

He Got Game is a dense and overly complicated family drama with aspirations of becoming a sports classic. This is

Drama Horror Reviews

Fallen (1998) – Review

October 29, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, Elias Koteas, Embeth Davidtz, Fallen, Gregory Hoblit, James Gandolfini, John Goodman

There is a compelling 90-minute story in the jumbled mix of the 124 minutes running time of Fallen. This is

Horror Reviews SciFi

Species II (1998) – Review

October 21, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Justin Lazard, Marg Helgenberger, michael madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Peter Medak, Species II

Species was an enjoyable variation on the Alien genre. The follow-up, Species II, is a cheap, awful film with a

Action Reviews

Mr. Nice Guy (1998) – Review

August 25, 2018October 19, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, jackie chan, Miki Lee, Mr. Nice Guy, Richard Norton, Sammo Hung

Mr. Nice Guy is very thin on story, yet brimming with visual energy and stunts. This film is basically an

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