| 8mm Review |
| by Ron Small |
| From: [email protected] (Ron Small)
8MM (1999)
Grade: D+
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenplay: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare,
Anthony Heald, Catherine Keener, Myra Carter, Christopher Bauer more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Jamey Hughton |
| Starring-Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini,
Peter Stormare, Chris Bauer and Catherine Keener
Director-Joel Schumacher
Rated 18A
Released February 1999
Sony
Reviewed July 1999 more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Eugene Novikov |
| Director Joel Schumacher must be a very hated man. He is, after all,
responsible for single-handedly destroying the whole Batman franchise
with the embarrassing Batman & Robin. Is it fair, for Batman fans
everywhere, to say that Schumacher redeems...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Mr Q. Z. Diablo |
| Mr Diablo found himself at rather a loose end on Sunday afternoon and
decided, by default, to go to the pictures. After examining the
newspaper he found that the only vaguely acceptable choice was Joel
Shumacher’s 8MM. The local art-house cinema was...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Ulrich.Schreglmann |
| "Tell me," the sidekick from inside the porn scene asks the hero played by
Nicholas Cage after they've watched a couple of really UGLY movies together
in the line of duty, "were you turned on by these?" "No. No I wasn't,"
Cage replies. "But you...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Jamie Peck |
| 8MM (EIGHT MILLIMETER)
Reviewed by Jamie Peck
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Rating: *** (out of ****)
Columbia / 2:06 / 1999 / R (language, violence, subject matter, glimpses
of nudity and sexual...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Matt Williams |
| Have you been dying to know just how sick, twisted and decayed the human
soul can become? Well, look no further. 8MM is a prime example of
bleak vérité. But, though it has bleakness in spades, 8MM lacks
anything worthwhile to be engaging. more |
| 8mm Review |
| by David Wilcock |
| 8mm, written by Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker, has an interesting idea
which is ruined by Hollywood formula to become a bog standard murder
mystery. Nicolas Cage plays family man detective Tom Welles, who is asked by
upper class toff Mrs. Christian...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Luke Buckmaster |
| 8MM
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare,
Christopher Bauer, Anthony Heald, Catherine Keener
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenplay: Andrew Kevin Walker
Reviewed by Luke Buckmaster more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Ken Pierce |
| Characters:
Tom Welles - Nicolas Cage
Max - Joaquin Phoenix
Eddie Poole - James Gandolfini
Dino Velvet - Peter Stormare
Machine - Chris Bauer
Longdale - Anthony Heald
Amy Welles - Catherine Keener more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Christian Pyle |
| After 1993's "Falling Down," I hoped that Joel Schumacher would mature into a
great director. Since then he has offered us two so-so adaptations of John
Grisham novels ("The Client" and "A Time to Kill") and two Batman movies that
lowered the standards...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Greg King |
| 8MM (R).
(Columbia Tristar)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joaquim Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare,
Catherine Keener, Anthony
Heald, Chris bauer, Myra Carter, Amy Morton
Running time: 123 minutes.
This violent, confronting...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Matt Prigge |
| Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Pheonix, James Gandolfini, Peter
Stormare, Catherine Keener, Anthony Heald, Christopher Bauer, Myra
Carter more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Chuck Dowling |
| Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare,
Anthony Heald
Written by: Andrew Kevin Walker
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Running Time: 124 minutes more |
| 8mm Review |
| by James Sanford |
| No director in recent memory has been as villified as Joel Schumacher,
the man responsible for the universally reviled "Batman and Robin." In
truth, Schumacher has made some stylish entertainments in his day,
including "Flatliners," "The Lost Boys,"...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Ram Samudrala |
| /8MM/ could've been so much more, given that it was written by Andrew
Walker who also wrote /Seven/, one of the most disturbing films I've
seen. Unfortunately, we have Joel Schumacher at the helm which, given
his recent tendency to go for style over...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by David N. Butterworth |
| Is it about a wholesome surveillance man who loses sight of his values
after becoming enmeshed in the seedy, sleazy underworld of hardcore
pornography? more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Kevin Patterson |
| 8MM
Rating: **1/2 (out of four)
R, 1999
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenplay: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Michael Redman |
| Your electrician builds altars to small furry woodland animals. Your son's
teacher dresses in an outlandish costume and screams with a frantic rock and
roll band. Your waiter is preparing for the end of civilization. No matter
where you are, some of your...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Kota Yamaguchi |
| Nicholas Cage plays Tom Welles, the P.I. looking for the killer of the
girl in the mystery 8mm reel. The reel was found in the safe of a
millionaire(billionaire?), and the widow wants to know for sure if the
murder is authentic or not. Tom takes up the...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Craig Roush |
| Release Date: February 26, 1999
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter
Stormare, Christopher Bauer, Catherine Keener, Amy Morton
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
MPAA...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Bill Chambers |
| Last summer, I was slipped a copy of Andrew Kevin Walker’s 8MM
screenplay. As someone who considers David Fincher’s Se7en (also
penned by Walker) one of the most important films of the 1990s, I
couldn’t resist opening the yellow covers of "eight...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Ryan Ellis |
| What's to like about the world of extremely violent trash
pornography--ie. the garbage known as "snuff" films? Nothing,
right? What's to like about a film chronicling the world of
violent trash pornography? Well...nothing. So, why make it,
Hollywood?...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Chris Rose |
| 8MM
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix
Directed by: Joel Shumacher
Screenplay: Andrew Kevin Walker
Type: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Rating: 3 1/2 Stars more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Serdar Yegulalp |
| Towards the end of "8MM", a detective named Tom Welles (Nicholas Cage) comes
face-to-face with a small group of men who have produced a snuff film -- the
filmed record of the murder of a girl, for money. "Why?" he asks them, which
is all any sane man...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Berge Garabedian |
| What do you get when you slap together the writer of one of the best
thrillers to come out in the last ten years, SEVEN (9/10), the cheezy
director of the awful BATMAN & ROBIN, and the acting talents of Nicolas
"Gimme some tights and I can play Superman"...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Mac VerStandig |
| What is pornography? Is it the showing of forbidden areas on a human
body? Do they need to be shown in a sexual fashion to constitute
pornography? Does the goal of the exploitation have to be sexual
gratification for the viewer? The Supreme Court of...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare,
Christopher Bauer, Anthony Heald, Catherine Keener
Screenplay: Andrew Kevin Walker
Producers: Judy Hofflund, Gavin Polone
Runtime: 124 min.
US Distribution:...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Dustin Putman |
| Directed by Joel Schumacher.
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener,
Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Amy Morton, Myra Carter.
1999 - 125 minutes.
Rated R (for extreme violence, sexual situations, nudity, and...more |
| 8mm Review |
| by Walter Frith |
| How typical! Joel Schumacher, who is currently destabilizing,
dismantling, and destroying the Batman franchise, has taken a different
turn, definitely not for the better with his latest effort (ha!)
entitled '8MM'. Once again Schumacher (who should be...more |
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