My Father Is Coming
An immigrant actress’ father visits her from Germany and does better in America than she – plus he begins to date Annie Sprinkle.
The Waterdance
The Waterdance 1992, R, 106 min. Directed by Neal Jimenez, Michael Sternberg, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William Forsythe, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Peña, William Allen Young, Grace Zabriskie, Fay Hauser. Few American movies in recent memory have the emotional integrity of The Waterdance, a film about paraplegics trying to…
Dingo
Dingo 1992. Directed by Rolf De Heer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Colin Friels, Miles Davis, Helen Buday, Joe Petruzzi, Bernadette Lafont. Winner of Best Musical Score in the 1991 AFI Awards (and nominated for Best Film), Dingo is a jazz-infused tale set in what seems the most unlikely of places to inspire…
Encino Man
Encino Man 1992, PG, 88 min. Directed by Les Mayfield, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Pauly Shore, Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Megan Ward, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur. Like some sort of evil Hollywood hybrid, Encino Man begs, borrows and steals the worst bits from both Iceman and Fast Times at Ridgemont High and…
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 3 1992, R, 118 min. Directed by Richard Donner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo. It’s bigger, but it ain’t necessarily better. Lethal Weapon 3 starts with a big bang — a bomb levels a downtown office building — and ends with a spectacular…
Night On Earth
Jim Jarmusch’s taxi anthology only takes you so far
