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White Man's Burden

From the Lawrence Bender production company A Band Apart (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fresh)comes this seemingly ingenious film that tackles race relations head on, and...

Film Review, Dec. 8, 1995

The Silence of Neto

Guatemala's first real film produced by the country's fledgling movie industry is an odd blend of the fantastic and the all-too-real that, although critically praised...

Film Review, Nov. 10, 1995

Black Bomber

Set in a futuristic Belgrade of 1999, this action/adventure/comedy takes its name from the title character (Bjelogrlic), a hip urban deejay who, along with his...

Film Review, Nov. 3, 1995

Powder

Halfway through this visually arresting, controversy-embroiled film, I found myself thinking that perhaps this might have been similar to what might have resulted if Rod...

Film Review, Nov. 3, 1995

Never Talk to Strangers

Never Talk to Strangers is a Brian DePalma film without the benefit of Brian DePalma. Coming from the ridiculously talented founder of the Royal Shakespeare...

Film Review, Oct. 27, 1995

Vampire in Brooklyn

Horror comedies are a schizophrenic lot: More often then not, they go overboard in one direction while falling flat in the other. John Landis' American...

Film Review, Oct. 27, 1995

Blue in the Face

Shot in under a week and utilizing much of the cast from his previous film Smoke, this slapdash ensemble piece is a sort of quasi-sequel...

Film Review, Oct. 27, 1995

Jade

Sometimes I dream of being screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, writing brilliantly mediocre, pointless, go-nowhere scripts that command $4 million-plus points and duping the movie-going public into...

Film Review, Oct. 20, 1995

City Unplugged

A co-produced Finnish/Estonian/American heist film, City Unplugged may owe a passing tip of the hat to previous caper films like Joseph Sargent's The Taking of...

Film Review, Oct. 13, 1995

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

The less said about this sixth entry in the Halloween series, the better. I'll cheerfully admit to being an insatiable genre fan, but this is...

Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995

Seven

A serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi is hunted by two New York City detectives in this hellish take on Nineties film noir.

Film Review, Sep. 29, 1995

Nadja

From the director of the bizarre cult hit Twister comes this genuinely affecting comedy-horror film that updates the Dracula lineage to present-day New York City....

Film Review, Sep. 29, 1995

Hackers

Horny teenagers in goofy clothes avert eco-disaster and triumph over the government.

Film Review, Sep. 22, 1995

Clockers

From the novel by Richard Price (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Spike Lee) comes Lee's first real look at urban drug dealing and the...

Film Review, Sep. 15, 1995

The Prophecy

A theological film noir with Walken in a shaggy black Beatles mop-top is the best way to describe The Prophecy. When an NYPD detective with...

Film Review, Sep. 8, 1995

Kids

For once, the hype is right on the money. Kids is an emotional sucker punch, a raw, dirty, disturbing piece of cinéma vérité filmmaking that...

Film Review, Sep. 1, 1995

Living in Oblivion

Hollywood's always had a bit of a love/hate affair with itself, but no more so than in the spirit of the independent filmmaker: Constrained by...

Film Review, Sep. 1, 1995

The Amazing Panda Adventure

How about The Boring Panda Adventure? Or maybe The Formulaic Disney Ripoff? Either one is a more apt title for this tired retread of Uncle...

Film Review, Sep. 1, 1995

Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions

Anyone who knows me even remotely knows how much I respect and admire the talents of artist, author, and filmmaker Clive Barker. So it is...

Film Review, Aug. 25, 1995

Mortal Kombat

First things first: taken for what it is -- a comic-book actioner based on a popular, relentlessly violent video game -- Mortal Kombat isn't half...

Film Review, Aug. 25, 1995

Fun

Based on screenwriter James Bosley's stageplay, Fun is a harrowing glimpse into the world of desperate friendship gone horribly awry. Bonnie and Hillary (Witt and...

Film Review, Aug. 18, 1995

Babe

A pig finds his destiny – and it's not as Christmas dinner.

Film Review, Aug. 11, 1995

Virtuosity

Director Leonard returns to the virtual reality setting of his previous film, The Lawnmower Man, with this sophomore effort that asks the burning question: “What...

Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995

Waterworld

If you can work your way past the monumental anti-hype and ill-will surrounding this most expensive of all films, you'll find Reynolds and Costner's enfant...

Film Review, Aug. 4, 1995

I Am Cuba

I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it's as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Film Review, Jul. 28, 1995

Clueless

Heckerling updates Jane Austen's Emma to Beverly Hills.

Film Review, Jul. 21, 1995

The Indian in the Cupboard

From the multi-award-winning children's book by Lynne Reid Banks comes this above-average fantasy that somehow manages to retain most of the sly wit and style...

Film Review, Jul. 21, 1995

Judge Dredd

Set in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, this feature debut from director Cannon does a surprisingly adequate job of capturing both the look and feel of...

Film Review, Jul. 7, 1995

Apollo 13

Howard's take on the ill-fated 1970 moon shot is filled with the almost unassailable heroics of the U.S. space program and the genuine urgency of history.

Film Review, Jun. 30, 1995

Burnt by the Sun

Set against the backdrop of the Russian countryside under Stalin's rule, this Oscar-winner for best foreign film is a brilliant, Chekhovian meditation on trust, love,...

Film Review, Jun. 23, 1995

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

Film Review, Jun. 23, 1995

Batman Forever

Batman forever… and ever… and -- yawn -- ever. This third installment in what, previously, was a deliciously gothic take on the Dark Knight drags...

Film Review, Jun. 16, 1995

Johnny Mnemonic

William Gibson wrote this screenplay from his short story about the perils of cyberspace in the 21st century.

Film Review, Jun. 2, 1995

Tales From the Hood

A deft, well-directed horror anthology film from the makers of last year's hilarious Fear of a Black Hat. Cundieff weaves together a quartet of eerie...

Film Review, Jun. 2, 1995

Die Hard With a Vengeance

Continuing the unlikely adventures of beleaguered NYPD cop John McClane (Willis), this third installment unfortunately forsakes much of the occasionally clever, somewhat wry dialogue and...

Film Review, May. 19, 1995

Crimson Tide

Submarines hold a near-mythic place in the pantheon of Great American Male Film Fantasies, and this juggernaut of a movie plays right into these childlike...

Film Review, May. 12, 1995

These Children That You Spit On

Dancing With the Clubkids

Music Feature, May. 5, 1995

DJ Herb and Alien Records

Music Feature, May. 5, 1995

Sashay, Shanté

Music Feature, May. 5, 1995

Destiny Turns On the Radio

Very strange stuff indeed. Baran's Sundance-nurtured “mystical love story” is a bizarre cross-pollination of genres that puts one in mind of Alex Cox's early work...

Film Review, May. 5, 1995

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