Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her 1992, PG-13, 103 min. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Sydney Pollack. In the movies, black comedy is a difficult proposition: it’s a genre more suited to a ten-minute sketch than a two-hour film. For every brilliant black comedy…
The Hours and Times
The Hours and Times 1991. Directed by Christopher Münch, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack. Imagine… In April of 1963, a few months before full-scale Beatlemania seized the world, John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein went together to Barcelona for a four-day holiday. Fact. During that holiday,…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.
The Silk Road
The Silk Road 1988. Directed by Junya Sato, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Koichi Sato, Toshiyuki Nishida, Anna Nakagawa, Yoshiko Mita, Takahiro Tamura. This Chinese-Japanese co-production set in 11th century China uses a fictional story to explain one of the world’s archaeological mysteries: the Thousand Buddha Caves near Dun-huang in northwestern China, located…
The Adjuster
The Adjuster 1991, R, 102 min. Directed by Atom Egoyan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale. Noah Render (Koteas) spends his days, his nights, and every waking hour in between, working as a claims adjuster for his insurance firm. To his clients — displaced…
Whispers in the Dark
Whispers in the Dark 1992, R, 103 min. Directed by Atom Egoyan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Elias Koteas, Arsinee Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale. Provocative? Sexy? Maybe just a little perverse? That’s the advance expectations set up by this film. Sciorra plays a psychiatrist experiencing recurrent sexy dreams inspired by…
