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Mr. Magoo
I know I'll go to heaven when I die because I've already been to Mr. Magoo. From the director of Jackie Chan's Supercop and Rumble...
Film Review, Dec. 26, 1997
Jackie Brown
Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.
Film Review, Dec. 26, 1997
Good Will Hunting
Will Hunting (Damon) is a “Southie” -- a twentysomething kid from the rough-and-tumble neighborhoods of South Boston. By day he works construction with his best...
Film Review, Dec. 26, 1997
Websites from Hell
It's 4am -- Do You Know Where Your Monitor Is?
Screens Feature, Dec. 26, 1997
Psychographical Communities
Internet Radio: Sounds Heard 'Round the World
Music Feature, Dec. 19, 1997
Titanic
James Cameron has retooled his ocean behemoth for 3-D, but the ship's outcome is still the same.
Film Review, Dec. 19, 1997
Scream 2
Has it only been one year since director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson reintroduced the joys of the slasher film to the American moviegoing...
Film Review, Dec. 19, 1997
Mouse Hunt
It's interesting that this dark and energetic autobahn of a comedy from DreamWorks SKG (the K is for Jeffrey “I Used to Run Disney” Katzenberg)...
Film Review, Dec. 19, 1997
Nenette and Boni
Gorgeously shot and featuring two vastly appealing main characters, Denis' tale of sibling revelry nevertheless prompts the question, “Who cares?” It's not from lack of...
Film Review, Dec. 12, 1997
Presents for Your VCR
Video Gifts From the Master Procrastinator
Screens Feature, Dec. 12, 1997
M
Lang's unnerving tale of a deranged child-killer (with Lorre in a star-making turn) is a riveting example of Expressionist filmmaking.
Film Review, Dec. 5, 1997
Mon Homme
Love and prostitution make for a heady, disastrous mix in this new film by Blier (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), but it's the ribald...
Film Review, Dec. 5, 1997
Tackling Texas Truisms
Filmmaker Don Howard and the Texas Documentary Tour
Screens Feature, Dec. 5, 1997
Alien Resurrection
Vastly superior to David Fincher's studio-gutted Alien3, this fourth outing still falls short of both Ridley Scott's hair-raising original and James Cameron's balls-out, war-in-space Aliens....
Film Review, Nov. 28, 1997
Kiss Or Kill
A punchy, clever film noir from Australian director Bennett, Kiss or Kill spins a new twist on the age-old cliché of grifter lovers on the...
Film Review, Nov. 28, 1997
Mouth to Mouth
Almodovar lite. Spanish filmmaker Pereira's throwaway romantic farce is set in modern-day Madrid where, as the film opens, struggling young actor Victor Ventura (Bardem) is...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 1997
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Eastwood's film, adapted from John Berendt's phenomenally bestselling “nonfiction novel,” is as entertaining and outrageous a confection as its source material, half Southern gothic and...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 1997
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is yet another in a long line of recent films that seem as though they should carry the Merchant/Ivory banner,...
Film Review, Nov. 21, 1997
Contempt
It's not Godard's best film, but it is one of cinema's most interesting looks at itself, masquerading as a love story gone awry. Sumptuously filmed...
Film Review, Nov. 14, 1997
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Whither Bill Murray's career? The pockmarked comedian's last substantial role was in Groundhog Day some four years ago (Mad Dog and Glory, made that same...
Film Review, Nov. 14, 1997
One Night Stand
In this new film from Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas), Wesley Snipes plays Max Carlyle, a successful, thirtysomething director of television commercials in Los Angeles....
Film Review, Nov. 14, 1997
Bean
Mr. Bean, perhaps the most annoying British import yet, has arrived amidst much hullabaloo, though one hopes that Beanmania will be relegated rather quickly to...
Film Review, Nov. 7, 1997
Year of the Horse
It's been nearly three decades since Neil Young and Crazy Horse's first album, Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere, came out, and that quintessentially American, purebred...
Film Review, Nov. 7, 1997
Red Corner
From the producer of all three Mighty Ducks films comes this bloated courtroom harangue against Red China, big business, and lawyers. Granted, Gere may have...
Film Review, Oct. 31, 1997
Armagideon Time
Hanuman Care Kit Lands in Austin -- Sort of
Music Feature, Oct. 24, 1997
The House of Yes
Just say no. Staged and stagy, this adaptation of Wendy MacLeod's play about family dysfunction and the “anti-Camelot” is a muddled, middling mess, despite a...
Film Review, Oct. 24, 1997
Gattaca
A striking debut from British director Niccol, Gattaca posits a not-too-distant future in which, thanks to the wonders of modern science, a person's genetic makeup...
Film Review, Oct. 24, 1997
A Life Less Ordinary
From the trio that brought us Shallow Grave and Trainspotting (director Boyle with producer Andrew Macdonald and screenwriter John Hodge) comes this woefully botched tale...
Film Review, Oct. 24, 1997
Breaking Up
When you're in love, when you're really in love, head over heels deep into that slick red vein, there is nobody else around -- just...
Film Review, Oct. 17, 1997
I Know What You Did Last Summer
So Scream wasn't a fluke. Who'da thunk it? That film's screenwriter, Kevin Williamson, returns with yet another gory teen-trauma tale that both looks and feels...
Film Review, Oct. 17, 1997
Devil's Advocate
The Lawyer Joke, taken to its obvious conclusion… and at almost two-and-a-half hours it's a hell of a running gag. Devil's Advocate is such a...
Film Review, Oct. 17, 1997
Any Way You Slice It
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Screens Feature, Oct. 17, 1997
Austin Confidential
Interview With Actor Russell Crowe
Screens Feature, Oct. 17, 1997
Intimate Relations
Intimate Relations is a dark, depressingly off-kilter black comedy based on “a true story.” In a small village outside of London in 1954, lodger Harold...
Film Review, Oct. 10, 1997
Bandwagon
“Finally… a movie about a band,” the tagline promises, and they're right, this certainly isn't a film about, say, a carwash or anything. It's band,...
Film Review, Oct. 10, 1997
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Here's more than you'd ever want to know about the late, not-all-that-great Ed Wood. Tim Burton's biopic a few years ago brought Wood's tragic Hollywood...
Film Review, Oct. 10, 1997
A Regular Joe
The Revelations of Filmmaker Joe Christ
Screens Feature, Oct. 10, 1997
Butch Camp
And here I thought everybody had forgotten about comedian Judy Tenuta. Boy, was I wrong. This alternately hilarious and annoying take on sexual stereotypes gives...
Film Review, Oct. 3, 1997
Weed
“Everybody must get stoned!” That should be the tagline for this frequently engrossing 64-minute documentary on the Eighth Annual Cannibis Cup & Hemp Expo held...
Film Review, Oct. 3, 1997
The Documentary Craft
Hector Galán: The Texas Documentary Tour
Screens Feature, Oct. 3, 1997
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