Serial Mom
Serial Mom 1994. D: John Waters; with Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake. The resurrection of Ms. Turner, via the man who gave us Divine and dogshit. Who would have thought? Exactly what the title implies, Serial Mom is Waters’ take on both America’s infatuation with serial killers and the media’s seeming inability to report…
White Fang Two: Myth of the White Wolf
White Fang Two: Myth of the White Wolf 1994, PG, 106 min. Directed by Ken Olin, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Scott Bairstow, Charmaine Craig, Alfred Molina, Al Harrington, Geoffrey Lewis. Something in us loves an animal running. There is purpose and grace, power and freedom in it, of a kind we humans…
Savage Nights
Savage Nights 1992. Directed by Cyril Collard, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos Lopez, Corine Blue, Maria Schneider. Savage Nights (Les Nuit Fauves) would herald the debut of a promising new French writer-director, Cyril Collard, had not Collard died only three days before his film swept the Cesar Awards…
Treasure Hunt
Treasure Hunt 1994, NR, 111 min. Directed by Jeff Lau, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chow Yun Fat, Ng Sin Lin, Lui Chia Hui. Fans of Chow Yun Fat’s blood-soaked collaborations with John Woo may be disarmed by this good-hearted fantasy which is long on romance and comedy while relatively short on action.…
Mother’s Boys
Mother’s Boys 1994. Directed by Yves Simoneau, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Vanessa Redgrave. Another “evil outsider in the family” film, along the lines of such recent offerings as The Crush and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but less interesting. Curtis is painfully miscast as…
Surviving the Game
Surviving the Game 1994. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rutger Hauer, Ice-T, Charles S. Dutton, John C. McGinley, William McNamara, Jeff Corey, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham. What are Ice-T and F. Murray Abraham doing in the same movie? Remaking The Most Dangerous Game for the umpteenth time,…
Brainscan
Brainscan 1994. Directed by John Flynn, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, T. Ryder Smith, Jamie Marsh. Flashback. It’s tough these days, I suppose, to come up with a genuinely original horror script. I mean, after Freddy I-VII and Jason I-IX, well, you know, it’s tough to come…
Belle Epoque
Belle Epoque 1992, R, 109 min. Directed by Fernando Truebo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdú, Jorge Sanz, Fernando Fernán Gómez. This winner of 1993’s Academy Award for best foreign film (and winner of nine Goyas — Spain’s top film prize) is a light and airy…
Cops & Robbersons
Cops & Robbersons 1994, PG, 93 min. Directed by Michael Ritchie, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, Robert Davi, David Barry Gray, Jason James Richter, Fay Masterson, Mike Hughes. Poor Chevy Chase. What with his track record of a ho-hum film career and recent inability to cut it…
