The Neon Bible

"...Lives, Terence Davies' The Neon Bible is an autobiographical memory film that ponders the childhood mysteries of growing up..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Canadian comedy troupe hits the big screen with this movie about the humorous side effects of a new drug.

"...The drug, which works by isolating a patient's happiest memory and playing it back over and over again, appears..."

April 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Postcards From America

"...and artist David Wojnarowicz, Postcards from America is a memory play, a remembrance of how things past affect things..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

"...filming wrapped, and the film is dedicated to his memory). To be fair, the film has a sense of..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kiss of Death

"...even when it's being predictable or brutal, but its memory is nearly gone the next day...."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Billy Madison

After his stint at SNL, Adam Sandler broke out as a movie star with this comedy.

"...one of the most outrageously bad movies in recent memory, a misfire so ridiculously and consistently off-target from anything..."

Feb. 17, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Burning Paradise

"...this one of the better chopsocky efforts in recent memory. He manages to make the genre's clichés seem brand..."

Aug. 12, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

"...and you've got a movie that'll fade from your memory so quick it'll make your eyes water and your..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love and Death in Saigon

"...and two) directed by sometime-Woo-collaborator Tsui Hark, who, if memory serves, attended UT Austin some time ago. (Got that?..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Ninjas Kick Back

"...the fact that its underage audience has an unschooled memory. Don't insult your kids with this choppy, unimaginative film..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trading Mom

"...make your mom vanish, but you also remove all memory of her being. This movie began life as a..."

March 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Long Day Closes

"...new work aims at being a poetic collection of memory fragments...."

Oct. 15, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Utz

"...Set in near-contemporary Czechoslovakia, Utz's story is told in memory and flashback, not merely his own reflections but those..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Splitting Heirs

"...bitch -- manages to sink her teeth into your memory. Everything else pales beside the inviting thought of seeing..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sandlot

The movie is a grown man's memory of his first, awkward summer in a new neighborhood in 1962 and the importance of baseball as a bonding activity.

"...sub-genre known as baseball movies. It's a grown man's memory of his first awkward summer in a new neighborhood..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Actress

"...Chinese filmmaking. Director Stanley Kwan (Rouge) obviously holds the memory of Ling-yu in high regard, parading her before the..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Aspen Extreme

"...(Though now, many years later, my fondest beach movie memory is of Frankie and Annette, arms out for balance,..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Scent of a Woman

"...Men Don't Leave) is likely to slip from long-term memory except for the fact that its showcase Pacino performance..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ox

"...-- this is one film that lingers in the memory longer than you might expect...."

Dec. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mighty Ducks

"...shot during a childhood championship game -- a primal memory that has obviously shaped his life. Even his vanity..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hairdresser's Husband

The Hairdresser's Husband is a tightly knit, though slight, tale told in the best of humor. It's the story of despair bred by utter happiness. The story of this marriage begins with the husband's childhood in which he developed an adolescent crush on the town's buxom barber and also a severe case of jock itch thanks to the red wool bathing trunks his mother made him wear. Freud would not approve.

"...a young boy's fantasy rather than a grown man's memory. Both characters stare at each other with such an..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Pictures From a Revolution

"...revolution's exultant afterglow but not its power over Meiselas' memory, so she and two colleagues went back to Nicaragua..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Chris Walters

The Waterdance

"...Zabriskie and Fay Hauser. Few American movies in recent memory have the emotional integrity of The Waterdance, a film..."

May 22, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Station

"...who they are. These two people don't fade from memory as soon as their images fade from the screen,..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Let Him Have It

"...that Let Him Have It will stick in your memory for years to come, just as a triumph like..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mambo Kings

"...Club Babalu.) The movie alters the novel's emphasis on memory and the American Dream and focuses more on the..."

March 20, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Father's Glory

"...life that's bothersome; there's something pointedly selective about Pagnol's memory, as if he's chosen to remember only what's pleasant..."

Sept. 20, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Regarding Henry

"...is up and about with nothing missing but his memory. Naturally, this was done to cut to the meat..."

July 12, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Truly, Madly, Deeply

"...of grief and unwilling to let go of the memory of the only man she ever loved, Nina seems..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Marrying Man

"...although this is admittedly the first Simon-penned film in memory that doesn't sport dialogue that sounds as if it..."

April 12, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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