What's Bruce Beresford, acclaimed director of Driving Miss Daisy, doing making a film in which an aged duchess is shown naked from behind as she... More>>
Director Boaz Yakin gives a Fresh twist to tales of the drug trade
By David Theis,
September 08, 1994
This has been a strong year for first-time independent filmmakers. David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey was one of 1994's pleasant surprises;... More>>
It would be hard to overstate the ineptitude of Steve Martin's new film, A Simple Twist of Fate, so I won't try. The poor, misshapen thing speaks... More>>
Song and dance in the Outback, where guys will be gals
By Peter Szatmary,
September 01, 1994
Drag queens in the Outback, laddies. Wearing Scarlett O'Hara outfits and showing a Carmen Miranda flair. Lip-synching to the Village People, ABBA... More>>
That right now is roughly the 100th anniversary of the birth of the movies is a little-noted fact, even by the Hollywood studios. Maybe that's as... More>>
Combine TV, killing and crowds, and what do you have? Oliver Stone
By David Theis,
September 01, 1994
Forget James Brown. Oliver Stone is the hardest-working man in show business. He's directed nine films since 1986's Salvador, and in each of them... More>>
Director Ang Lee registered pretty much a perfect score on last year's The Wedding Banquet. His low-budget story of a gay Taiwanese man living in... More>>
In Color of Night, Bruce Willis bares less of his body than expected, but more of his soul
By Peter Szatmary,
August 25, 1994
Only in the movies could a therapist speak inconsiderately to a frayed patient, watch her commit suicide by jumping out his office window, quit... More>>
Picture-perfect film's sincerity is true-blue, but the familiar story has nothing new to share
By David Theis,
August 25, 1994
In China, The Blue Kite has provoked a political backlash for its bleak depiction of the "anti-Rightist" campaigns of the 1950s as well as of the... More>>
Metropolitan maker goes abroad with the American bourgeoisie
By David Theis,
August 18, 1994
Whit Stillman's debut film, Metropolitan, made many a top-10 list in 1990. With its nuanced, self-aware and hyper-verbal characters, it displayed... More>>
Who among us cannot warble their happy theme tune? The Little Rascals, originally Our Gang, was introduced in the 1930s, was tweaked to fit into... More>>
The return of Hollywood's most famous dog and pony show
By Peter Szatmary,
August 11, 1994
Following that great show biz tradition, a couple of long-ago Hollywood icons are making a comeback. After decades of being relegated to fond... More>>
Tom Clancy and Harrison Ford take aim at the War On Drugs
By David Theis,
August 11, 1994
First, the good news. Clear and Present Danger is much easier to take than its predecessor, Patriot Games, though history and casting keep it... More>>
It Could Happen To You proves itself a winning ticket
By David Theis,
August 04, 1994
Judging by the films he's made -- most particularly his latest, It Could Happen To You -- Andrew Bergman is no relation whatsoever to the great... More>>
It was inevitable, I suppose, that India's frenzied level of movie-making would begin to follow Indian immigration to the U.S. and the U.K. Here,... More>>
In Guelwaar, a Senegalese film director raised a Muslim takes on the Christian-Muslim conflict in Africa by focusing on a tiny Senegalese village... More>>
Spanking the Monkey gives a wicked twist to an ancient taboo.
By Peter Szatmary,
July 28, 1994
Apparently your mother liks to spend her time in a horizontal position," a doctor chides bedridden Susan in front of her home-from-college son... More>>
Another Grisham thriller hits the screen, with middling results
By David Theis,
July 28, 1994
The Client is such a dispiriting film that I find it hard to summon up the energy to write about it. My colleague on the restaurant beat doesn't... More>>
Paranoid Houstonians such as yourself and myself may be forgiven for wondering if Clutch City (a phrase that, ohmigod, is starting to worm its... More>>
It's about time Jim Broadbent starred in a movie. An immensely endearing actor whose supporting roles provided ballast to such films as Enchanted... More>>
