1992

The L.A. riots are the backdrop for this forgettable heist picture

"...razor wire of Crenshaw, and especially on April 29, 1992, the day the L.A. riots kicked off. 1992 takes..."

Aug. 30, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Spike & Mike's 1992 Festival of Animation

"...18 different animated shorts from around the world, this 1992 collection highlights the best and the brightest (as well..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This Is Who We Are #13: Pro Arts Collective's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 State Theatre, through Feb. 27 Running Time: 2 hrs,..."

June 1, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Aladdin

Another needless Disney remake buoyed on nostalgia and a handful of charming performances

"...In this remake of the 1992 cartoon, Aladdin (Massoud) lives on the streets of Agrabah,..."

May 24, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Song of Sway Lake

Period family drama is evocative, if sometimes lacking in clarity

"...In 1992, Ollie Sway (Culkin) returns to his family’s private lake..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ellie Rucker: You Could Ask Her Anything

Consumer columnist was Austin's own finder of facts

"...to bed when we learned that one of our 1992 winners – popular consumer columnist Ellie Rucker – died..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

The fourth entry in this series is surprisingly complex and ambitious.

"...Soldier series (not counting TV-only efforts) which began in 1992. All have featured Jean-Claude Van Damme, though he doesn't..."

Nov. 30, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

Incendiary: The Willingham Case

The "junk science" used to make the case for the Texas execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for the arson murders of his children is persuasively laid out in this locally made documentary.

"...call him – or rather, call his conviction in 1992 and his subsequent execution in 2004 – a jaw-dropping..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Best Worst Movie

Premiering in Austin, this documentary is about the purportedly "best worst movie" ever made, Troll 2, and its enthusiastic fans.

"...Austin opening. The piece is a tribute to the 1992 film Troll 2 and its many fans, who have..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.

"...of Abel Ferrara’s brilliant and harrowing Bad Lieutenant of 1992, which starred Harvey Keitel in the title role, might..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Even if you're familiar with the details of this legendary game, this suspenseful cultural documentary draws you to the edge of your seat and beyond, back into 1968 itself.

"...with the seminal Eighties doc The Atomic Cafe and 1992's prescient Feed, establishes the November 23, 1968, game between..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Wild

Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.

"...Vaughn, Kristen Stewart and Hal Holbrook. On April 28, 1992, a scraggly 24-year-old tramp and adventurer from suburban Virginia..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Alone in the Dark

There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.

"...the second time (the first time, of course, was 1992's Kuffs). Helium ’n' Marlboro-voiced blondeshell Tara Reid as a..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin

An authoritative film study of the career of the Little Tramp by the esteemed journalist Richard Schickel.

"...Actor Oscar nomination for his role in Richard Attenborough’s 1992 biopic Chaplin. Previously unseen home-movie footage of an elderly..."

Dec. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Piglet's Big Movie

"...Sterling Holloway, who voiced the original Pooh, died in 1992 and is here replaced by Jim Cummings, who does..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Blue

"...hasn’t been notable since the smoke cleared back in 1992...."

Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Universal Soldier: The Return

"...wondering who asked for a sequel to the meatheaded 1992 blastorama, Universal Soldier, the results of my informal market..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Instinct

"...Maura Tierney and Donald Sutherland. Fans of Daniel Quinn's 1992 philoso-fiction novel Ishmael are sure to cringe at some..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Spawn

"...do? Since introducing his Spawn comic book character in 1992, McFarlane's nightmarish superhero from hell has branched out into..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brassed Off!

"...in the aptly named town of Grimley where, in 1992, the government austerity is threatening to close the local..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Secrets & Lies

"...(or were they realistic but offbeat social comedies?). With 1992's startling Naked, Leigh's work took on a much darker..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Joe's Apartment

"...of that now all-powerful music network. However, Payson's original 1992 short film, upon which this expanded feature is based,..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Man of the Year

"...events that occurred during his year-long tenure as Playgirl's 1992 Man of the Year. Man of the Year veers..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Fear

Stock characters and unintentionally funny dialogue doom this film about a beleaguered father who tries to protect his smitten daughter from a drug-dealing, trash-talking, randomly violent psychopath.

"...on Michael Mann's Last of the Mohicans re-make in 1992, but betrays that promise here with a terribly generic..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

"...work (it made several critics' “top 10” lists in 1992), but it probably requires some prior familiarity with Godard's..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Access

"...was Public Access, Singer's first feature-length film. Made in 1992, Public Access is just now receiving limited national distribution..."

Nov. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Stranger

"...Bhattacharya and Dhritiman Chatterjee. With Agantuk/The Stranger (made in 1992 and released a few months before the director's death),..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Chinese Feast

"...Hong Kong director Tsui Hark's first modern-day film since 1992's The Master is also his loosest, most improvisational picture..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

"...Swordfight in Twin Flags Township (which was recognized as 1992's best foreign film by both the Hong Kong and..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Minbo -- Or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

"...Taxing Woman) deromanticizes the yakuza myth in this gutsy 1992 movie. Minbo portrays not the stoic, tragic anti-heroes we've..."

Feb. 24, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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