One Fine Day is a comedy that will make you believe like it came out of Hollywood’s Golden Age directed by a skilled contract director. But in fact, it is a modern-day version of movies from that time in Hollywood’s history. It all starts with George Clooney meeting Michelle Pfeiffer when their children accidentally bump into each other while playing. Clooney plays an investigative journalist writing for one of New York’s newspaper columns while Pfeiffer is an architect. Coincidentally, both are single parents and soon after the bickering, started to build an affair over the course of the day. Director Michael Hoffman knows exactly what people find funny about wearied caretakers and children who do whatever they want to. Although stretching out a bit at some points in the movie, what really matters is the winning love story the film offers.
A movie that is outrageously full of crime and horror, From Dusk Till Dawn is the result of an unusual collaboration between director Robert Rodriguez and the all too famous fiction genius Quentin Tarantino who wrote the script and starred in the movie as well. Richard Gecko (Tarantino) is a psychopath on the edge of insanity who breaks his brother Seth (George Clooney) from prison. The insane siblings then proceeded to rob a bank, leaving a bloody trail of wounded (if not dead) bodies in their wake. They then take a family hostage with Harvey Keitel playing a former Baptist minister who quit the service after his wife’s passing and hit the road on his mobile home with his two children (Ernest Liu and Juliette Lewis). The Gecko brothers then headed for Mexico to makes a stop at the Titty Twister bar for a money drop without realizing that they just took a step into the nocturnal lair of bloodthirsty vampires. Tarantino and Rodriguez then combined their specialties in an explosion of gunfire, gore, and fanged chaos which includes Salma Hayek as a ravishing dancer whose bite is more dangerous than her bark. Fans who love a film with exploding heads and eyeballs and a lot of blood while still having a really good script will definitely love this one.
