When 16-year-old mail-order bride Riyo (Youki Kudoh) gets off the boat that has borne her from her old home in Japan to her new one on a sugar... More>>
Mel Gibson puts himself on the line for Braveheart
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
May 25, 1995
In the 16 years since he made his screen debut, Mel Gibson has seen plenty of action. Part of what makes him so charismatic is his ability to... More>>
Crimson Tide dives deep, but ends up dead in the water
By Joe Hon,
May 18, 1995
With their latest offering, the post-Cold War thriller Crimson Tide, the creative team of director Tony Scott and producers Don Simpson and Jerry... More>>
Brash and bashful, Hugh Grant stars in yet another fey English tale, this one with a twist
By Edith Sorenson,
May 18, 1995
In The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain, the titular Englishman is Hugh Grant, and Grant makes of his role another genial,... More>>
Panther is a sincere, but self-defeating, exercise
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
May 11, 1995
For nearly three decades, some of Hollywood's most powerful African-American players have labored unsuccessfully to bring the story of the Black... More>>
When director Bob Balaban read Richard Bausch's award-winning novel about a trio of senior citizens, he knew immediately that he wanted to make... More>>
The Perez Family and My Family (Mi Familia) don't glance off of you the way most movies do. Full of hardship, deprivation, bitterness and death... More>>
With Funny Bones, Peter Chelsom dips into humor's dark side
By Edith Sorenson,
May 04, 1995
Peter Chelsom, co-writer and director of the new film about comedy (as opposed to comedy film) Funny Bones, says his latest work is another of... More>>
There's a happy ending to A Pyromaniac's Love Story; this film is a fairy tale after all, albeit a modernized, live action version of Fractured... More>>
In the past two decades, filmmaker John Carpenter has directed 17 movies, and has established himself as a towering figure in modern horror -- a... More>>
WorldFest Houston, the city's annual international film festival, is like any other annual event: a select crowd waits eagerly all year for it to... More>>
With The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio becomes a star
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
April 27, 1995
As Jim Carroll, the teenage prep-school junkie hero of The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a performance so brilliant it's scary.
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Don't be put off by the fact that this is a movie about over-educated, alienated young men trying to make it big in Los Angeles. The Low Life... More>>
One of the most welcome surprises of WorldFest is the premiere of Joe's Rotten World, a terrific comedy from Los Angeles-based writer/director... More>>
Houston's film festival returns a "lean, mean movie machine"
By Joanne Harrison,
April 20, 1995
It's baaaaack! WorldFest/Houston International Film Festival, which has zapped through so many incarnations it probably should be known as the... More>>
"Don't you want to deal with problems when they happen?" Rachel demands. She's just moved in with someone and, being level-headed, isn't quite... More>>
There's no denying that Bad Boys follows Hollywood's action comedy formula by the book. But where most films only end up bombing in the process,... More>>
