If not for the big names in the cast and the occasional colorful expression in the dialogue, viewers could be forgiven for supposing that 'Boiling Point' is an episode of a fairly decent contemporary cop show. The sensibility is much the same, with people on both sides of the law methodically going about their business. Based on the novel 'Money Men' by Gerald Petievich (who also wrote the book that served as the basis for 'To Live and Die in L.A.'), 'Boiling Point' follows the crossed paths of Federal Treasury agent Jimmy Mercer (Wesley Snipes) and con man/counterfeit cash distributor Red (Dennis Hopper). Both men have seven-day deadlines imposed upon them by their higher-ups. A week is all the time Jimmy is given (unofficially, at that) to find the person or persons who killed his partner during the course of a ...

title: Doc Hollywood function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Warner Home Video MPAA rating: PG-13 starring: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, David Ogden Stiers, Woody Harrelson, Barnard Hughes, Frances Sternhagen, George Hamilton release year: 1991 film rating: Three and a half stars reviewed by: Abbie Bernstein Newly-minted Dr. Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox), on his way to what he sees as the perfect life as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is furious when his beloved 1956 Porsche breaks down in Grady, South Carolina, squash capitol of the south. Swerving to miss a cow, he's smashed the fence of a local judge, who sentences him to 36 hours of community service in the town's hospital. Stern nurse Packer (Eyde Byrde) cuts him no slack, while ebullient mayor Nick Nicholson (David Ogden Stiers) tries to sell him on the advantages of life in a small town, since crusty old Dr. Hogue (Barnard Hughes) is clearly about to retire. And naturally, there's a local beauty, ambulance driver Lou ...

title: City Of Angels function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Warner Home Video MPAA rating: PG-13 starring: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Dennis Franz, Andre Braugher release year: 1998 film rating: Three and a half stars sound/picture: Three and a half stars reviewed by: Abbie Bernstein ‘City of Angels’ is a gentle-souled, thoughtful romantic fantasy that has unexpected rhythms and grace notes. Some of its deviations from the traditional routes of big-budget love stories don’t quite work (the ending is arguably unpredictable but tremendously wrong-headed). However, in adapting Wim Wenders film ‘Wings of Desire’ for an English-language version set (where else?) in Los Angeles, director Brad Silberling and screenwriter Dana Stevens create moments of magic.

title: My Giant function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Castle Rock MPAA rating: PG starring: Billy Crystal, Gheorghe Muresan, Kathleen Quinlan, Joanna Pacula release year: 1998 film rating: Two Stars reviewed by: Abbie Bernstein Let us begin here with a note about film critics. Our profession dictates that we have fairly extensive vocabularies; we should not have to resort to name-calling. However, sometimes only a word like "lame" will do.

title: Raw Deal function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment MPAA rating: R starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kathryn Harrold, Darren McGavin, Sam Wanamaker, Paul Shenar, Steven Hill, Joe Regalbuto, Robert Davi release year: 1986 film rating: Three Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren Raw Deal is one of those movies that Arnold Schwarzenegger made while trying to find his real screen image. Traces of the Arnold to come are found in this routine but entertaining action movie -- as well as signs of where the action movie was heading: into anthologies of increasingly huge and unlikely set pieces, with the story and characterization of less and less concern.