Director Terry Gilliam travels through time to find a winner
By Joe Leydon,
January 04, 1996
Once again, Terry Gilliam has seen the future, and it's a mess. In Brazil, his exuberantly paranoid vision of a post-1984 totalitarian state, he... More>>
Though not great, 1995 still produced some movies worth seeing (and reseeing)
By Joe Leydon,
December 28, 1995
This past year will not be remembered as a vintage one for movies -- or even, judging from recent trade paper reports, for the movie industry --... More>>
Mel Brooks has said that he sees his new Dracula: Dead and Loving It as a companion piece to his Young Frankenstein. That's giving himself a lot... More>>
Oliver Stone takes a measured look at how Richard Nixon rose and why he fell
By Joe Leydon,
December 21, 1995
Near the very end of Nixon, Oliver Stone's surprisingly evenhanded examination of this century's most notorious U.S. president, there is a scene... More>>
"Farce," wrote critic Stefan Kanfer, "is tragedy out for a good time. Its characters miss catastrophe by a pulse beat. What if the husband had... More>>
Sabrina doesn't mimic the old Hollywood feel, it revives it
By Joe Leydon,
December 14, 1995
Perhaps the very best fairy tales are those that allow for the possibility that, sometimes, Prince Charming gets lost along the way and doesn't... More>>
John Travolta shines again in an intriguing, if uneven, look at race in America
By Joe Leydon,
December 07, 1995
In the parallel universe of White Man's Burden, things really aren't all that different from what they are in the real world. America continues... More>>
John Boorman's new film has some, uh, interesting color tones
By Edith Sorenson,
August 31, 1995
Beyond Rangoon has the style of John Boorman's signature films -- it's lovely to look at but ultimately uninteresting, like The Emerald Forest or... More>>
Larry Clark's Kids is an unsettling exercise in cheap sensationalism
By Joe Leydon,
August 31, 1995
Kids is a cunning little art-house fraud that has somehow managed to impress a good number of people who should know a great deal better. Ever... More>>
Clive Barker may not appear on the bestseller lists as often or as prominently as Stephen King, but there are many devotees -- chief among them... More>>
With 125 million well-thumbed copies in circulation, the Baby-sitters Club books are a trusted series whose stories of seven adolescent girls and... More>>
Desperado hits the bull's-eye with a fusillade of bullets
By Joe Leydon,
August 24, 1995
There's a scene about two-thirds of the way through Robert Rodriguez's Desperado where the stylish villain of the piece, a white-suited drug lord... More>>
A glance at the names associated with Like Water for Chocolate director Alfonso Arau's big budget filmic fable A Walk in the Clouds is enough to... More>>
Two new films take on the issues, but only one entertains with its answers
By Edith Sorenson,
August 17, 1995
Dangerous Minds and Jeffrey come shining onto the big screen secure of a certain success based on their high-minded and topical subject matter.... More>>
Discussing 1993's year in movies, veteran Hollywood scriptwriter William Goldman -- who wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance... More>>
