Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Ben Stiller”
We have dry days when it comes to new movies, and this is most definitely one of them. When your options start with Friday the 13th, Part V, you start looking for silver linings. Hence, Blade II, Guillermo Del Toro’s kind-of-awesome follow up to the mostly awful Blade. Not only did it redeem the whole darn concept and give Wesley Snipes a …
The 1950s were a Golden Age for science fiction, and few films in that era attained the resonance — both as entertainment and as a movie with something to say — that The Day The Earth Stood Still did. Robert Wise’s pitch-perfect fable of a man from outer space with a message we’re just not capable of hearing is definitely …
With apologies to The Boy Who Lived, I think Officer McClane is taking the pole position on this one. The original Die Hard initially looked like a huge disaster. Star Bruce Willis was mainly known for light comedy and his attempt to segue into action hero mode smacked of the worst kind of hubris. As it turns out, it represented …
These days, with every potential blockbuster hoping to suck up all the air in the room, you never open big films right on top of each other. But it used to happen all the time. And in this case, it was a grand fluke, since nobody expected Star Wars to do anything when it debuted on May 25, 1977. But …