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Ghost in the Machine
Exploring new realms of unoriginality, Ghost in the Machine begs, borrows and steals bits and pieces from other, not-all-that-much-better films (The Lawnmower Man and Wes...
Film Review, Dec. 31, 1993
Beethoven's 2nd
I never made much of an effort to catch the first Beethoven film -- after K-9, Bingo, and assorted others, I pretty much felt as...
Film Review, Dec. 24, 1993
The Pelican Brief
All the President's Men meets The Parallax View by way of John Grisham. Pakula returns once again to the fertile fields of conspiracy in high...
Film Review, Dec. 17, 1993
Wayne’s World 2
'Tis sequel time once more, that time of year when moviegoers are plagued with a seemingly endless spate of less-than-original Hollywood offerings (read: Sister Act...
Film Review, Dec. 10, 1993
Man's Best Friend
At a Southern California genetics laboratory, the semi-mad Dr. Jarrett (Henricksen) has managed to splice the genetic codes of a tiger, a bear, a chameleon,...
Film Review, Dec. 3, 1993
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain
This early (1983) forerunner of such Hong Kong hits as A Chinese Ghost Story and the Swordsman series features everything from ice palaces to “Blood...
Film Review, Dec. 3, 1993
A Dangerous Woman
Gyllenhaal's film feels like a lost Tennessee Williams play -- it's chock-full of repressed hostilities, illicit sex, mental impairment, alcohol and sprawling old houses. Martha...
Film Review, Dec. 3, 1993
A Perfect World
Shot in and around Austin, Eastwood's first film after his Oscar-sweep with Unforgiven is a taut, occasionally touching chase film that pits a prison escapee/kidnapper (Costner) against a Texas Ranger (Eastwood) in 1963 Texas.
Film Review, Nov. 26, 1993
Addams Family Values
It's a telling point to note that the most interesting thing about visiting the Addams clan again was the drunken business major sitting in front...
Film Review, Nov. 26, 1993
Time Indefinite
Documentary filmmaker McElwee is a man who takes the phrase “I am a camera” to its most extreme. No matter where he goes or what...
Film Review, Nov. 12, 1993
Look Who's Talking Now!
Although Tim Burton had nothing to do with it, this is certainly a nightmare before Christmas. Travolta and Alley reprise their roles as good-natured, all-American...
Film Review, Nov. 12, 1993
Ernest Rides Again
This is the second time in as many weeks I've seen a sub-awful movie in an otherwise deserted theater, and the experience is beginning to...
Film Review, Nov. 12, 1993
The Remains of the Day
Like most Merchant/Ivory/Jhabvala projects of late, Remains of the Day is a heady mix of upper-class English sensibilities and the repressed, whirling emotions that circulate...
Film Review, Nov. 12, 1993
Once Upon a Time in China III
Jet Li is back as the legendary physician and martial arts master in this third outing in Hark's "historical" epics.
Film Review, Nov. 5, 1993
Taiga
A genuine “epic,” Ottinger's documentary on the nomadic tribespeople of Outer Mongolia runs for 8 hours and 21 minutes. By the time you reach the...
Film Review, Nov. 5, 1993
Fearless
Peter Weir returns to his mystical roots with mixed results in this tale of a plane crash survivor (Bridges) and his altered perception of life...
Film Review, Oct. 29, 1993
Especially on Sunday
A trilogy of Italian short films, all written by Tonino Guerra yet directed by three separate directors, Especially on Sunday perfectly captures the spirit of...
Film Review, Oct. 29, 1993
Crime Story
Chan's most recent film takes him out of his familiar element of goofy mugging and broad slapstick, and returns him to his roots (a la...
Film Review, Oct. 29, 1993
Judgment Night
Bang. Bang. Click... ahhh, shit. Misfire.... That's about the feeling one gets from Hopkins's take on the venerable fish-out-of-water cum chase subgenre, a film that...
Film Review, Oct. 22, 1993
Mr. Wonderful
Minghella's previous film, the elegiac Truly, Madly, Deeply, was a bittersweet love story involving a ghost. Mr. Wonderful, on the other hand, is a ghost...
Film Review, Oct. 22, 1993
Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright
Any TV watcher with access to PBS and A&E may have already seen these three short films, but that's still no excuse to miss them...
Film Review, Oct. 22, 1993
For a Lost Soldier
This gorgeous, strange film (based on the novel by Dutch author Rudi van Dantzig) starts off looking like John Boorman's life-during-wartime remembrance Hope and Glory,...
Film Review, Oct. 22, 1993
Road Scholar
Shot in 1991, Road Scholar is that rare film: a documentary road movie that looks at America with eyes not hampered by the rose-tinted cultural...
Film Review, Oct. 15, 1993
Mr. Jones
You can tell, from the very beginning, that this is a film that was made with very high hopes and noble aspirations. Cut from two...
Film Review, Oct. 15, 1993
Careful
Set in the mysterious European village of Tolzbad during the 19th century, this third feature from Canadian director Guy Maddin (Tales From the Gimli Hospital,...
Film Review, Oct. 15, 1993
Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies
The heroin-induced death of G.G. Allin last June was a decidedly anticlimactic end to the life of “the most dangerous man in rock & roll.”...
Film Review, Oct. 8, 1993
King of the Hill
Set in Depression-era Missouri, Soderbergh's third feature follows the daily travails of young Aaron (Bradford), an intelligent, resourceful boy whose family is straddling a precarious...
Film Review, Oct. 8, 1993
Warlock: The Armageddon
Young Druids in Love. Anthony Hickox, who seems to be making quite a name for himself in the bad sequels department (his Hellraiser III seriously...
Film Review, Oct. 1, 1993
The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk
Like the equally legendary Chinese folk hero Wong Fey-Hong, compatriot Fong Sai-Yuk was also partial to defending his kung fu-impaired brethren from the dishonest scoundrels...
Film Review, Sep. 24, 1993
The Age of Innocence
I suppose I never had enough unrequited angst percolating through my high school years to take full pleasure in the works of Edith Wharton. I...
Film Review, Sep. 24, 1993
Police Story II
In the second part of Chan's Police Story opus, his detective is demoted to a traffic cop for his previous escapades but that still doesn't keep him out of trouble.
Film Review, Sep. 17, 1993
True Romance
Written by wunderkind Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun), True Romance is nothing if not consistently entertaining. It's the prototypical...
Film Review, Sep. 17, 1993
Hard Boiled
(This print of Hard Boiled is John Woo's “director's cut” which includes several extra minutes deleted from the initial release print. Let's see... that ought...
Film Review, Sep. 10, 1993
Fortress
Certain films make me very glad I'm paid for what I do here. This is one of them. Despite the fact that director Gordon has...
Film Review, Sep. 10, 1993
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
As the title suggests, this nearly three-hour long documentary focuses on the work of MIT linguistics professor Chomsky, a man who is not only one...
Film Review, Sep. 10, 1993
Romper Stomper
You know you're in for something different when the main character's first line of dialogue is a nerve-rattling “Fuck you!” directed squarely at the audience...
Film Review, Sep. 10, 1993
City Hunter
What a marvelously silly film this is! Packed to the hilt with non-stop comic book action (the whole schmeer is loosely based on the adult...
Film Review, Sep. 3, 1993
Needful Things
Out of the almost 20-plus Stephen King film adaptations thus far, you can honestly count the “good” ones on the fingers of one hand. And...
Film Review, Sep. 3, 1993
Dragon Inn
Tsui Hark -- fast becoming the Roger Corman of Hong Kong cinema -- is back with another of his mystical period pieces featuring still more...
Film Review, Aug. 27, 1993
Tokyo Decadence
Drenched in erotic reds and blacks, Tokyo Decadence leaves little to the imagination as it reveals the seamier side of the land of the Rising...
Film Review, Aug. 27, 1993
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