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Devil in a Blue Dress
Mean streets. They are what you expect to see in a detective thriller, streets paved with corruption and washed in blood, streets on which a...
Film Review, Oct. 6, 1995
National Lampoon's Senior Trip
Remember in high school how there was one kid who had a wise-ass comment for everything and no matter how snide it was or how...
Film Review, Sep. 15, 1995
Belle de Jour
One of master director Luis Buñuel's most wry and elegant films, the tale of the beautiful young bride of a prosperous doctor who spends her...
Film Review, Sep. 1, 1995
Mina Tannenbaum
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,...
Film Review, Aug. 25, 1995
The Virtues of Flexibility
Re-Imagining the Production Process
Arts Feature, Aug. 11, 1995
Unheard Voices
Diverse Stories Break Through
Arts Feature, Jul. 7, 1995
Portrait of the Artist as an Old Crank
Sketches of R. Crumb
Arts Feature, Jun. 30, 1995
Kids 'n' Tell
Why Children Groove on Stories
Arts Feature, Jun. 23, 1995
The Secret of Roan Inish
Water moving, in ripples, in waves. It is the first image in this film, and from it we can feel that the story we are...
Film Review, Jun. 2, 1995
Girl Crazy
Austin Women Taking Center Stage
Arts Feature, May. 12, 1995
Only the Brave
Who am I? Such a simple question, yet its answer is so elusive. These two films are very different -- one is a brooding tale...
Film Review, May. 5, 1995
The Naked Play
The Power of Play Readings
Arts Feature, May. 5, 1995
Polishing Elephants
On Finishing a Dance
Arts Feature, Apr. 28, 1995
And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
In each of our lives, there comes a time when we develop a keen sense of death's presence. Often, it comes in our youth and...
Film Review, Apr. 21, 1995
Losing Isaiah
We've grown so accustomed to the courtroom drama which plays one side as hero and one as villain, it seems sometimes there's no other kind....
Film Review, Mar. 24, 1995
Colonel Chabert
Depardieu stars as a soldier presumed killed in battle who comes home years later to find his wife remarried. The set-up echoes Depardieu's The Return...
Film Review, Mar. 24, 1995
Roommates
“Family takes care of family,” snarls 75-year-old Rocky Holeczek, Polish immigrant, baker, and crusty patriarch of a Pittsburgh family which has just endured a tragedy...
Film Review, Mar. 10, 1995
Century
As the 19th century gives way to the 20th, a young medical researcher (Owen) finds love and conflict in a London hospital. Though the cast...
Film Review, Mar. 3, 1995
The Madness of King George
In this country, he's a villain, the monarch whose abuse inspired a revolution, the ruler from whom we fled to found a democracy. But in...
Film Review, Feb. 3, 1995
Oleanna
“I don't want revenge. I want understanding,” a college student tells a professor after reporting him to a tenure committee for sexual harassment. And it...
Film Review, Nov. 18, 1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh, resuscitator of Shakespeare onscreen, tackles the Frankenstein tale and brings that oft-abused corpse to life again with a jolt, though not the way...
Film Review, Nov. 11, 1994
… And God Spoke (the making of …)
A mock documentary about a producer and director of exploitation flicks who try to do a class adaptation of the Bible. Borman's behind-the-scenes spoof might...
Film Review, Nov. 4, 1994
Stargate
When genres collide. Ridley Scott fused the science fiction movie with film noir in Blade Runner. James Cameron fused the science fiction movie with the...
Film Review, Nov. 4, 1994
Radioland Murders
Those who grew up on it say radio was magic. The first medium to bring adventure, comedy, and romance into your home, it let you...
Film Review, Oct. 28, 1994
Exit to Eden
There's limburger, there's Roquefort, there's gorgonzola, and there's Exit to Eden. This new film from director Marshall (Beaches) is pure cheese, and stinky cheese at...
Film Review, Oct. 21, 1994
Only You
Note to Norman Jewison: Shots of the night sky and Italian spices do not a fine romance make. It's hard not seeing this comedy d'amore...
Film Review, Oct. 14, 1994
Bhaji On the Beach
A simple sojourn at the seaside. A retreat from the cares of daily life. That's what this day trip for some “Asian Ladies” from Birmingham,...
Film Review, Sep. 30, 1994
A Good Man in Africa
The director of Driving Miss Daisy makes his second safari into Africa (the first was Mister Johnson) and comes back with a satire about Brits...
Film Review, Sep. 16, 1994
Max, Mon Amour
The story of a woman who takes a chimpanzee as her lover -- and her husband who struggles to accept their union -- would seem...
Film Review, Sep. 5, 1994
Wagons East
Oh, John Candy. This isn't how we wanted to remember you. For your last film, you deserved better than this pale shadow of Blazing Saddles...
Film Review, Sep. 2, 1994
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
A trio of “showgirls” – two drag queens and one transsexual – venture out of tolerant, big-city Sydney and into the wilds of central Australia.
Film Review, Aug. 26, 1994
The Little Rascals
Kids will be kids. And that's the refreshing news about the Nineties version of Hollywood's original Brat Pack; the kids are basically the same as...
Film Review, Aug. 19, 1994
That's Entertainment! III
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has once again opened its vaults to show off the showpieces from its legendary musicals. Perhaps sensing that audiences will believe they have already...
Film Review, Aug. 12, 1994
It Could Happen to You
Generous to a fault. That's what the makers of this endearing comedy want us to believe its two lead characters are: a courageous, helpful, Big...
Film Review, Aug. 5, 1994
The Client
“Objection, your honor! The protagonist is being willfully stupid! Again!” All through this adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling suspenser, I kept wanting to appeal to...
Film Review, Jul. 29, 1994
"Lesbian Vampires"
The independent shorts in this twofer attempt to shine a new light (or darkness) on those famous monsters of filmland, vampires, by giving strong women...
Film Review, Jul. 22, 1994
Forrest Gump
Like the chocolates that its titular hero generously offers strangers at a bus stop, this story of a simple man's journey through life and the...
Film Review, Jul. 15, 1994
The Shadow
“The weed of crime bears bitter fuit.” Early in this latest attempt to put the pulp novel avenger on the screen, the title character sneered...
Film Review, Jul. 8, 1994
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp wasn't Gandhi, but you wouldn't know it to look at this weighty Western. It gives the famous lawman the Richard Attenborough treatment: a...
Film Review, Jul. 1, 1994
The Lion King
Something old, something new, lots that's borrowed, more that's true. Disney's 32nd animated feature is a hodgepodge of myth, comedy, and recycled parts of previous...
Film Review, Jun. 24, 1994
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