Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Love the Hard Way." Oscar-winner Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna star in this drama about a thief who falls for a curious, beautiful young woman. As their intimacy grows, a slick cop (Pam Greer) is closing in.
On what should have been a fun-filled day at the races, Nick O'Bannon has a horrific premonition in which a bizarre sequence of events causes multiple race cars to crash, sending flaming debris into the stands, brutally killing his friends and causing the upper deck of the stands to collapse on him. When he comes out of this grisly nightmare Nick panics, persuading his girlfriend, Lori, and their friends, Janet and Hunt, to leave... escaping seconds before Nick's frightening vision becomes a terrible reality. Thinking they've cheated death, the group has a new lease on life, but unfortunately for Nick and Lori, it is only the beginning. As his premonitions continue and the crash survivors begin to die one-by-one--in increasingly gruesome ways--Nick must figure out how to cheat death once and for all before he, too, reaches his final destination.
Editor's Note: Yesterday we gave you the pros and cons of Final Destination and Halloween 2. Since that worked out so well we figured we'd throw a compare / contrast column at you. Why? Well, we can't review the films until the
August 28 is not only the last Friday of August and the final movie-watching weekend of the summer, but it's also the arena for one of the most cutthroat theatrical release battles of the year. For some wacky reason, Warner Bros.
"I couldn't shake the feeling that I had seen it all before."
The Final Destination franchise is a guilty pleasure, a series of films based around one concept and one concept only: killing good-looking people in fun, creative, and gory ways. But there are only so many ways to die, and while The Final