Salmonberries
Salmonberries 1991. Directed by Percy Adlon, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring K.d. Lang, Rosel Zech, Chuck Connors. Singer k.d. lang makes her acting debut in this hauntingly beautiful movie about dislocation and the search for identity. Filmed in 1991, Salmonberries never had much of a theatrical release and is only now having its…
Robotrix
Robotrix 1991, NR, 94 min. Directed by Jamie Luk, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring David Wu, Amy Yip, Chikako Aoyama. This 1991 Hong Kong action/cheesecake/science fiction/cop movie has been variously described as “Charlie’s Angels meets The Terminator” and “a Chinese Robocop invested with the spirit of Russ Meyer.” Libidinous scientists create sexy robots…
Wing Chun
Wing Chun 1994, NR, 93 min. Directed by Yeun Woo Ping, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen. Hong Kong’s reigning queen of action films, Michelle (Supercop: Police Story III) Yeoh, toplines this fun, period martial arts film, unique in its stylistic approach to both violence and sexual politics. Yeoh essays…
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp 1994, PG-13, 191 min. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Linden Ashby, Michael Madsen, Joanna Going, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Jobeth Williams, Mare Winningham, Catherine O’Hara, Isabella Rossellini. Wyatt Earp wasn’t Gandhi, but you wouldn’t know it to look at this weighty…
Baby’s Day Out
Baby’s Day Out 1994, PG, 99 min. Directed by Patrick Read Johnson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Adam Worton, Jacob Worton. Take The Ransom of Red Chief, Raising Arizona, and the Three Stooges and what do you get? A lot more entertainment…
Blown Away
Blown Away 1994. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis, John Finn, Stephi Lineburg. If Speed is the cartoon, Saturday-matinee film of the summer thus far, then Blown Away is its smarter older brother; the largest action-movie explosion ever filmed…
Little Big League
Little Big League 1994, PG, 119 min. Directed by Andrew Scheinman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton, Ashley Crow, Kevin Dunn, Jason Robards. What’s up with movies about kids and major league baseball these days? It seems like you can’t turn around in Hollywood without someone pitching a…
