Fresh
Fresh 1994, R, 114 min. Directed by Boaz Yakin, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Sean Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, N’Bushe Wright, Ron Brice, Jean Lamarre. Like the speed chess games that twelve-year-old Fresh (Nelson) plays with his father (Jackson), Yakin films follows a subtle, powerful logic, slowly building from a tense,…
Bebe’s Kids
Bebe’s Kids 1992, PG-13, 70 min. Directed by Bruce Smith, Narrated by , Voices by Faison Love, Nell Carter, Myra J., Tone Loc, Wayne Collins, Jonell Green, Marques Houston, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Starring . Bebe’s Kids are the spawn of comedian Robin Harris’ fertile imagination. They’re miscreant little monsters who are always misbehaving or mouthing…
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery 1992. Directed by John Glen, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring George Corraface, Marlon Brando, Robert Davi, Tom Selleck, Rachel Ward. What with all the recent hue and cry over the anniversary of that famous voyage by a lowly Genovesian cartographer, it should hardly come as a shock that Hollywood…
The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag
The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag 1992, PG-13, 89 min. Directed by Allan Moyle, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, Alfre Woodard, William Forsythe, Cathy Moriarty, Julianne Moore, Faye Grant, Xander Berkely. Stupid title, stupid movie, but not without its saving graces. A would-be comedy about busting loose, The…
Honeymoon in Vegas
Honeymoon in Vegas 1992. Directed by Andrew Bergman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker. The challenge Bergman seems to find interesting is taking a potentially repugnant subject, slap it on the screen and in the audience’s face, and make it both palatable and funny. He used the…
Lovers
Lovers 1991, R, 107 min. Directed by Vicente Aranda, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, Meribel Verdu. A slow-paced, yet absorbing film teeming with white-hot eroticism, Lovers (winner of Spain’s Goya Award for Best Picture and Director) is fashioned with stylistic and thematic shades reminiscent of Hitchcock meets film noir…
Rapid Fire
Rapid Fire 1992. Directed by Dwight H. Little, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Kate Hodge. Oh my, but is there ever a mess of broken glass in this movie. A more apt title would be Rapid Shatter. Yet, as long as you don’t have to sweep up,…
