Billy-Zane Movie Reviews

Daniel Travanti and Billy Zane star in a world where the media is prohibited except in a place called Megaville where rampant corruption is rampant.It's a must see sci-fi fantasy thriller!!

Daniel Travanti and Billy Zane star in a world where the media is prohibited except in a place called Megaville where rampant corruption is rampant.It's a must see sci-fi fantasy thriller!!

Just seeing billy zane under the sheets makes this 5 stars

This was a fresh film in its day. And remains quite possibly one of the best time travel movies period. Kate and Leopold is not too bad--in terms of the time travel element, but it's really a completely different genre inside the time travel filmology. At any rate, Michael J. Fox delivers as always a solid performance. As do the rest of the cast. Entertaining, sweet, low on the violence and sex scale. A good look at the ramifications of our actions... A nice flick

Back to the Future is one of those movies that you love to watch over and over again. You get so involved in the story, that (even if you aren't a sci-fi fan) you can't stop watching. Michael J. Fox is Marty McFly, a typical teenager who accidentally gets sent back to the year 1955 in Doc Brown's (Cristopher Loyd) time machine. There, he has to repair the damamge he has done by bringing his parents bac together and then of course get "Back to the Future. Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson are a wonderful supporting cast. Unfortunatey, this movie has been out of print for quite some time now. Amazon, PLEASE GET IT BACK! It hasn't even made it to DVD yet. If you ever get a chance to buy this movie then do it, it's worth every penny.

When "Back to the Future" came out in 1985, I must have seen it in the movie theaters 3 or 4 times. It is one of the most highly entertaining movies to come out of the 80s'.

While the idea isn't all that original, I think the approach is unique. I also think that the actors, both Michael J. Fox and especially Christopher Lloyd really make this movie a great one for multiple viewings.
It's about a teenage boy, Marty McFly, played by Fox, who's grown up kooky friend, Doc, played by Lloyd, invents a time machine. Then Marty is accidently sent back to November 5th, 1955. He spends most of the movie trying to get back to the future. He encounters his own parents, played by Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson(they are both awesome in this movie!!! glover is hysterical) when they were teenagers.
I really loved this movie when it came out because it made me laugh and it was very entertaining. I was also a big Huey Lewis fan, and both him(a very small role in the beginning) and his music are in the film.
This was a very popular movie when it came out, and with the Universal Studios ride, I think it's popularity emerged back up. There are two sequels, but this is the best of the series.
It's funny and the acting is great all around.
I think it's a good film for the whole family to watch together.

This was a fresh film in its day. And remains quite possibly one of the best time travel movies period. Kate and Leopold is not too bad--in terms of the time travel element, but it's really a completely different genre inside the time travel filmology. At any rate, Michael J. Fox delivers as always a solid performance. As do the rest of the cast. Entertaining, sweet, low on the violence and sex scale. A good look at the ramifications of our actions... A nice flick

Back to the Future is one of those movies that you love to watch over and over again. You get so involved in the story, that (even if you aren't a sci-fi fan) you can't stop watching. Michael J. Fox is Marty McFly, a typical teenager who accidentally gets sent back to the year 1955 in Doc Brown's (Cristopher Loyd) time machine. There, he has to repair the damamge he has done by bringing his parents bac together and then of course get "Back to the Future. Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson are a wonderful supporting cast. Unfortunatey, this movie has been out of print for quite some time now. Amazon, PLEASE GET IT BACK! It hasn't even made it to DVD yet. If you ever get a chance to buy this movie then do it, it's worth every penny.

When "Back to the Future" came out in 1985, I must have seen it in the movie theaters 3 or 4 times. It is one of the most highly entertaining movies to come out of the 80s'.

While the idea isn't all that original, I think the approach is unique. I also think that the actors, both Michael J. Fox and especially Christopher Lloyd really make this movie a great one for multiple viewings.
It's about a teenage boy, Marty McFly, played by Fox, who's grown up kooky friend, Doc, played by Lloyd, invents a time machine. Then Marty is accidently sent back to November 5th, 1955. He spends most of the movie trying to get back to the future. He encounters his own parents, played by Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson(they are both awesome in this movie!!! glover is hysterical) when they were teenagers.
I really loved this movie when it came out because it made me laugh and it was very entertaining. I was also a big Huey Lewis fan, and both him(a very small role in the beginning) and his music are in the film.
This was a very popular movie when it came out, and with the Universal Studios ride, I think it's popularity emerged back up. There are two sequels, but this is the best of the series.
It's funny and the acting is great all around.
I think it's a good film for the whole family to watch together.

This was a fresh film in its day. And remains quite possibly one of the best time travel movies period. Kate and Leopold is not too bad--in terms of the time travel element, but it's really a completely different genre inside the time travel filmology. At any rate, Michael J. Fox delivers as always a solid performance. As do the rest of the cast. Entertaining, sweet, low on the violence and sex scale. A good look at the ramifications of our actions... A nice flick

Back to the Future is one of those movies that you love to watch over and over again. You get so involved in the story, that (even if you aren't a sci-fi fan) you can't stop watching. Michael J. Fox is Marty McFly, a typical teenager who accidentally gets sent back to the year 1955 in Doc Brown's (Cristopher Loyd) time machine. There, he has to repair the damamge he has done by bringing his parents bac together and then of course get "Back to the Future. Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson are a wonderful supporting cast. Unfortunatey, this movie has been out of print for quite some time now. Amazon, PLEASE GET IT BACK! It hasn't even made it to DVD yet. If you ever get a chance to buy this movie then do it, it's worth every penny.

When "Back to the Future" came out in 1985, I must have seen it in the movie theaters 3 or 4 times. It is one of the most highly entertaining movies to come out of the 80s'.

While the idea isn't all that original, I think the approach is unique. I also think that the actors, both Michael J. Fox and especially Christopher Lloyd really make this movie a great one for multiple viewings.
It's about a teenage boy, Marty McFly, played by Fox, who's grown up kooky friend, Doc, played by Lloyd, invents a time machine. Then Marty is accidently sent back to November 5th, 1955. He spends most of the movie trying to get back to the future. He encounters his own parents, played by Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson(they are both awesome in this movie!!! glover is hysterical) when they were teenagers.
I really loved this movie when it came out because it made me laugh and it was very entertaining. I was also a big Huey Lewis fan, and both him(a very small role in the beginning) and his music are in the film.
This was a very popular movie when it came out, and with the Universal Studios ride, I think it's popularity emerged back up. There are two sequels, but this is the best of the series.
It's funny and the acting is great all around.
I think it's a good film for the whole family to watch together.

When a Mysterious Collector (Billy Zane) is in pursuit forever of a man named Brayker (William Salder), he`s a mysterious drifer with an Ancient Key that holds the Power of the Forces of Evil and the Darkness from Destorying Humanity. When Brayker arrived in a Hotel, that was a Church and He meets a beautiful strong-willed Jeryline (Jada Pinkett). When the Collector finds Brayker, The Collector relase a Spawn of Demons to kill Brayker and the anothers from the Hotel. Together, they have to Fight the Demons and The Collector to survived the night.

Directed by Ernest Dickerson (Surviving the Games, Bones) shows a lot of visual style, who was a Director of Photography for Spike Lee`s Films. Demon Knight has everything for a Horror Film with Great Make-Up Effects and a Sense of Humor. It`s Great Fun. Exective Produced by Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon Series), David Giler (Producer of the Alien Series), Walter Hill (Trespass), Joel Silver (The Producer of The Matrix) and Robert Zemeckis (What Lies Beneath) and They are also the Original Exective Producers of Tales from the Crypt Series from Home Box Office (HBO) Network. Grade:A-.

Tales From The Crypt:Demon Knight. Well, it's about the beginning of time...the world was in darkness until God said "Let there be light" then according to the movie the demons that were living in the darkness were scattered as well as 7 keys that once brought back together could bring the darkness back for the demons to once again roam the Earth. Fast forward a couple million years and here you have the demons with 6 of the 7 keys the final belonging to William Sadler's character who has been chased by the demons for the final key which contains the blood of the most holy one and those that held the key after. The blood protects the key and any drop used repels the demons...he finds himself chased to a motel where he eventually gets surrounded by the demons and must fight them off and then the action begins. Billy Zane plays an excellent lead demon while Jada Pinkett shines as the predecessor to William Sadler. It is a pretty good horror flick. Jada shows her usualy moxy and the film gives you want you want and expect...plenty of gore, blood & a time or 2 to jump from your seat a little.

It might be hard to believe but this movie is pretty damn scary! Granted, it does have a lot of funny parts to it but overall this movie really freaked me out! I stayed up the entire night after seeing it, laughing at myself but still unable to go to sleep! I kept telling myself, "Come on man, it's only a Tales From the Crypt movie!" but even that element seemed to be missing (The Cryptkeeper does make a hilarious entrance!)by that I mean it wasn't over the top, made for T.V. campy. This was very well made with some great special effects. This movie was produced by such people as Robert Zemeckis, Richard Donner, Joel Silver, etc...-in other words big names in the movie industry (this flick had some heavy backing!) The story line in this movie was amazingly complex for a horror film, yet it wasn't drawn out! Billy Zane was outstanding as the persistent and demonic "Collector", he pretty much steals the show. This is also the first movie I ever saw Jada Pinkett(Smith) in and she does a great job of playing the reluctant heroine. Bottom line, if you are a fan of horror movies and need something to watch on some gloomy night (I had to throw that in, sorry) that will entertain and scare you, so go pick this movie up!

For anyone who dreams of meeting that special someone at that right moment, this is the movie for you! The romance of Peter and Faith (Robert Downey, Jr. and Marisa Tomei) is what people dream about. Simply bumping into the person in Rome, and soon finding yourselves in love is so idealistic, you have have to stop and remind yourself that it is just a movie. However, it makes you wonder - is there that one person out there just for us and it's just a matter time before you find them? It's such a beautiful and this movie only makes it come true. A romance written in the stars is truly a romance worth having!

One of the best things about this movie was the beautiful setting. It was filmed in Venice, and there were some seriously magnificent shots. It made me wish I could just pick up and go there for a weekend, like Faith and Kate did.

The movie begins with Faith as a girl, playing with a Ouiji board. She asks who her soulmate is, and it gives her the name Damon Bradley. All her life, she waits to find him, but is unsuccessful. Marisa Tomei does an excellent job portraying the naive dreamer, Faith. When a phone call turns out to be a lead on discovering her soulmate, Faith and Kate fly to Venice, hoping to find him...ten days before Faith is supposed to marry the wrong man. In Venice, Faith runs into Peter Wright *literally* who chases her down to return her shoe. The moment she bumps into him, he falls in love with her! Seeing it as his only opportunity to get to know her, Peter (played by Robert Downey Jr.) pretends to be Damon.

I won't spoil the ending, but I will say this movie really made me smile. It's a great chick flick for those of us who love romance movies.

This is my older sister's absolute favorite movie, and she has good reason to think so. The plot is rather predictable in many aspects, but at the same time there are a couple twists that make it even more charming and interesting. Definitely a chick flick, but one that can be enjoyed over and over again without tiring of it.

For anyone who dreams of meeting that special someone at that right moment, this is the movie for you! The romance of Peter and Faith (Robert Downey, Jr. and Marisa Tomei) is what people dream about. Simply bumping into the person in Rome, and soon finding yourselves in love is so idealistic, you have have to stop and remind yourself that it is just a movie. However, it makes you wonder - is there that one person out there just for us and it's just a matter time before you find them? It's such a beautiful and this movie only makes it come true. A romance written in the stars is truly a romance worth having!

One of the best things about this movie was the beautiful setting. It was filmed in Venice, and there were some seriously magnificent shots. It made me wish I could just pick up and go there for a weekend, like Faith and Kate did.

The movie begins with Faith as a girl, playing with a Ouiji board. She asks who her soulmate is, and it gives her the name Damon Bradley. All her life, she waits to find him, but is unsuccessful. Marisa Tomei does an excellent job portraying the naive dreamer, Faith. When a phone call turns out to be a lead on discovering her soulmate, Faith and Kate fly to Venice, hoping to find him...ten days before Faith is supposed to marry the wrong man. In Venice, Faith runs into Peter Wright *literally* who chases her down to return her shoe. The moment she bumps into him, he falls in love with her! Seeing it as his only opportunity to get to know her, Peter (played by Robert Downey Jr.) pretends to be Damon.

I won't spoil the ending, but I will say this movie really made me smile. It's a great chick flick for those of us who love romance movies.

This is my older sister's absolute favorite movie, and she has good reason to think so. The plot is rather predictable in many aspects, but at the same time there are a couple twists that make it even more charming and interesting. Definitely a chick flick, but one that can be enjoyed over and over again without tiring of it.

I was prepared to absolutely hate this 2001 film. It's about Daniel, a Jewish young man who's an anti-Semite. He supposedly hates Jews so much that he becomes a leader of a right wing group. He's cruel and angry and incredibly articulate about it. In fact his arguments are so sophisticated and well done, that some Jewish groups have called it a "primer for anti-Semitism". When the film was released, the press was so bad that the film never was distributed widely, especially since it came out around the time of 9/11.

Based on an actual true story, the film is hard to watch. The star, Ryan Gosling, is such a good actor that I believed in his characterization entirely. His performance is nothing less than mesmerizing, as we see him go through conflicts and gradually change. We see flashbacks to his early years when he attended a Yeshiva and argued with the teacher. We also see short sequences enacting a holocaust story of a murdered child that he plays and replays in his mind. We see a romance with a young woman who is fascinated with Judaism. We see him and a gang of young toughs desecrating a synagogue. There are a lot of ugly words. And forbidden concepts. I found myself cringing throughout.

My heart was beating the whole time. My eyes were glued to the screen. I was disgusted and fascinated and horrified. But, as the film progressed though, I saw that it was not an anti-Semitic film at all. In fact, it said some wonderfully positive things about Judaism and made me proud to be a Jew. However, I'm aware that many people will only see the hate and I understand why this film creates fear. It's very powerful. And it will probably feed the flames of hatred for those who already think that way.

The DVD has some wonderful features. The director, Henry Bean, spoke at length about his search for an actor, his troubles with distributing the film, the true story on which the film is based, and his own struggles as an American assimilated Jew. Another feature on the DVD showed the actual filming of one of the most pivotal scenes in the film. Daniel is alone in a room with a partially destroyed Torah, the holy scroll that all Jews hold sacred. He carefully tries to clean it and repair it with tape. And his body language and facial expressions show all his conflicts and contradictions. The feature also discusses the camera angles, lenses and the use of the light and also talks about the changes made in the editing room. All of this just added to my appreciation of the film.

This is not a film for everyone. And, unfortunately, it will be misinterpreted my many. But I personally loved it. And highly recommend it for those with an open mind.

At first glance THE BELIEVER seems like the ultimate oxymoron: a Jewish neo-nazi. What makes this movie even more fascinating is that it is based on a true story.
The opening sequence in which the film's protaganist Danny Balint (Ryan Gosling) beats up a Jewish student he stalks from the subway is chilling and leaves the viewer appalled at Balint's ignorance and self-loathing and his apparent unwillingness to accept his creed.
In several flashback scenes a nerdy Danny is shown in his Torah class giving opinions on religion his teacher doesn't like- actually very intelligent and provocative observations- his teacher's inability to accept a different opinion to his only serves to add another dent in Danny's psyche (As a lapsed Catholic, I can understand this all too well).
THE BELIEVER is utterly compelling, Gosling gives a frighteningly plausible performance, the scene in which he gives a newspaper reporter a look at his passionate but undeniably flawed reasoning is one of many powerful moments. A couple of other sequences of the movie I found very interesting is a film clip where God is describedby a yeshiva as "The purest form of spirit. Nothingness without end"; and especially the scene where Danny rolls up a damaged Torah scroll while his friends are destroying a Jewish synagogue. The movie also co-stars Theresa Russell and the almost unrecognizable Billy Zane both in fine perfomances as nazi radicals. I'll go so far as to say this is better than AMERICAN HISTORY X, which I also gave 5 stars. This is a must-see, though not for all tastes.

THE BELIEVER is one of the most controversial films in recent memory. Director Henry Bean presents a film that won the prestigious Moscow Film Festival award in 2001. Ryan Gosling is Daniel Balint, a young Jewish man who, early in his Talmudic studies, simply could not grasp the concept of Jew as a passive servant of God. For him, the essence of Judiasm had to be power which could only be expressed when Jews dared to set themselves against God. He rebelled, left the shul, and gravitated toward Neo-Nazism. He shows himself to be more brutal toward Jews than do his fellow skinheads. Soon enough, however, Daniel begins to distinguish between Jews and Jewish artifacts and beliefs. He has no problem stomping on a yarmelked Jewish man who refuses to fight back. The more this victim passively accepts that stomping, the more Daniel becomes enraged. Later, when he and his skinheads desecrate a synagogue, he refuses to permit the destruction of its holy Torah scroll. He even takes it back to his home to repair it. Slowly, he begins to re-evaluate his motives as if he realizes that individual Jewish lives mean nothing, but immortal Jewish traditions mean everything.

THE BELIEVER is a shocking film that is less about hatred of Jews and more about what it means to be a Jew. Early on, Daniel makes this point clear when he insists that anti-semites hate Jews for the wrong reasons. Money, media control, and cabals have nothing to do with that. The real reason that fuels hatred of Jews, he maintains, is that Jews simply are. Parents love their children as naturally as non-Jews hate Jews as an unspoken law of nature.

Those who first saw THE BELIEVER during its intial release worried that it might fuel the rise of anti-semitism. In fact, THE BELIEVER presents Jews in a positive light, as a group that can endure unremitting agony to such a degree that Daniel misinterprets that as synonymous with a welcoming of that agony. At the end, the audience, through Daniel, has come full circle. To believe in the necessity to endure the blind hatred of a two milennia old hatred is a Faulknerian virtue, not a Hitlerian vice.