Wirey Spindell

"...too many specifics, and it takes more than a weird name like Wirey Spindell to make a person really..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Shining

"...to pair up Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King? But weird as it sounds, this creepy thriller works. Nicholson takes..."

Nov. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

"...in an easy-to-digest format: Spike and Mike at their weird, wild best...."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Psycho

"...of their efficacy and power. So what becomes very weird are the few moments in which Van Sant varies..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marie Baie Des Anges

"...there might not be), tossing off bizarre, nonsensical edits, weird, disjointed storylines, and all manner of cinematic loop-de-loops until..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deceiver

"...admit they have “no evidence -- just a rich, weird spastic.” That kind of describes Deceiver; it's a tricky,..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Job

"...mixture of tones -- it is simultaneously deadpan, stark, weird, realistic, provocative, and funny. And watching American Job sure..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

"...a one-line summary. Ostensibly, Morris has gathered four different “weird animal stories,” both in terms of the obsessed men..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cold Fever

"...departs Japan for Iceland and things immediately start getting weird. For starters, the screen image switches from the squarish..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Holy Weapon

"...around and successful... so we can continue to enjoy weird and goofy flicks like this one...."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Drop Zone

"...a talented director, but he's gone off on some weird action/comic tangent that he has no business being on...."

Dec. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie's Ear

"...be shoring up the occasionally collapsible storyline. It's a weird, wild ride, and while not for everyone, it remains..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hudsucker Proxy

This Coen brothers film is a goofy ode to genres and eras gone by. Although it's a little less “weird” than much of their work, it still retains a mannered and quirky air with performances that walk a line between realism and understated surreality.

"...stories. And while Hudsucker Proxy is a little less “weird” than most of their previous efforts, it still retains..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clifford

"...like they belong on bad Mervyn's mannequins. Now, that's weird. But as in many comedies, the material can't match..."

April 8, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation '94

"...Dog Zero;” Richard Goleszowski's two servings of his blissfully weird “Rex the Runt,” a clay canine whose lounge-singer serenades..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

A Better Tomorrow II

"...of Hark's films, is a convoluted mess, rife with weird inconsistencies and contrivances, but nevertheless constantly steamrolling ahead like..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Body Snatchers

"...interesting young helicopter pilot (Wirth), but things keep getting weirder and weirder. People around them start behaving like mindless..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

La Vie De Bohème

This film honors the romantic notion of the starving artist while simultaneously mocking its illusions and pretensions.

"...has him plucking on piano strings and making other weird sounds. Rodolpho's beloved is Mimi (Didi), a woman in..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undercover Blues

"...Ross gives this caper, but Undercover Blues has a weird retro feel to it. American superspies Jane and Jeff..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Neo-Tokyo

"...shot in an atypical (for Japanimation, anyway) style, this weird little chunk of Disney on Acid ends up being..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wax, Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees

"...or a clean room laboratory worker. Wax is alternately weird, tedious, inventive, inscrutable, fluid and unremarkable. Where you stand..."

July 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Léolo

"...But though Fernand does change, and -- in the weird way of dreams -- actually becomes another person altogether,..."

May 28, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Rampage

"...with a shield of neurological folderol (highlighted by the weird, palpitating Ennio Morricone music that accompanies every brain scan..."

Nov. 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Freddie as F. R. O. 7.

"...“Evilmainya”, performed by Grace Jones. There is also a weird choice of color and tone in Freddie. All the..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Newsies

"...could have, with the exception of a cute but weird Michael Jackson number, come straight from the head of..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Famine Within

"...probably find it interesting because women are just so weird...."

Jan. 17, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Last Boy Scout

"...result is mildly interesting, but there are so many weird and gratuitous scenes of insane violence that the effect..."

Dec. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Comfort of Strangers

"...even himself, with his perfectly tailored Armani suits and weird multi-tongued accent, leaving all his other whacked out characters..."

May 17, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild at Heart

In love and on the lam – David Lynch-style.

"...doesn't tell stories as much as he shows hallucinations. Weird, wild, excessive, obsessive, idiosyncratic visions. Lynch's quirky world view..."

Jan. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

ACL Interview: Family Band Bailen Talks Three-Part Harmonies and Sibling Shenanigans

“Being in a sibling band is a really weird social experiment”

"...like being in a sibling band is a really weird social experiment,” she quips. “There aren’t a lot of..."

Oct. 6, 2023 Music Feature by Kriss Conklin

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