Danger, Will Robinson! Sensors detect boomer-TV redux once again. This time the victim is Lost in Space, Irwin Allen's enjoyably absurd sci-fi TV... More>>
If American movie moguls really thought like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, they'd probably spend more time blowing up Federal Reserve banks... More>>
Rosie O'Donnell sure makes a believable nun. In the kids' movie Wide Awake, she plays Sister Terry, a sports-loving teacher at a swanky private... More>>
Renee Zellweger as an Orthodox Jew? A Price Above Rubies proves the actress's worth.
By Jimmy Fowler,
April 02, 1998
Some of the smartest, most surprising films about women have been made by men; and some of the best films about men have been made by the rare... More>>
Linklater tries to break out of the slacker doldrums, but misfires
By Peter Rainer,
March 26, 1998
Probably every film director itches to make a western, so let's be thankful that, with The Newton Boys, Austin's Richard Linklater has scratched... More>>
Lovers of American movies used to joke that foreign films wouldn't look so good if you saw them without subtitles. John Sayles's latest movie,... More>>
The flimsiest hustle in movie promotion today -- one perpetrated by film festivals and their camp followers -- is that independent movies are... More>>
In Fireworks, Takeshi Kitano mixes Dirty Harry with Zen
By Bill Gallo,
March 19, 1998
Takeshi Kitano, the reigning Renaissance man of Japanese pop culture, is a scriptwriter, movie actor and director and the star of seven TV shows.... More>>
This slow, meditative Woolf adaptation captures Woolf's mood and her genteel era
By Elana Roston,
March 19, 1998
Though critics of her era often compared Virginia Woolf's nonlinear, almost cubist narratives to the then-burgeoning cinema's use of montage,... More>>
In Tom DiCillo's new movie, it's not the blonds who are dumb
By Mark V. Moorhead,
March 12, 1998
One of the half-dozen main characters in Tom DiCillo's ensemble comedy The Real Blonde is obsessed with finding a literal specimen of the title... More>>
At first glance, Jonathan Darby's Hush appears to have a couple of things going for it. There's some high-wattage star power in the persons of... More>>
Nil by Mouth is so gritty, it verges on the unwatchable
By Scott Timberg,
March 05, 1998
British actor Gary Oldman, who made his mark playing a punk in Sid and Nancy and a playwright in Prick Up Your Ears, wrote and directed Nil by... More>>
Jeff Bridges is so euphorically wacked as a social dropout in The Big Lebowski that you get a secondhand high just looking at him. Padding around... More>>
Dangerous Beauty presents a 16th-century Venice filled with statesmen who hop from bed to bed without fear of "bimbo eruptions." That's because... More>>
The faux-noir Palmetto winks at the audience instead of staring it down
By Peter Rainer,
February 19, 1998
Palmetto is a film noir set in a torpid seaside Florida town. It's based on the James Hadley Chase novel Just Another Sucker, and when we first... More>>
Love Walked In, despite the Gershwin in the title, is less champagne fizz than bottom-shelf rotgut rye, drained from a dirty glass. Argentine... More>>
In the latest Crichton-based thriller, there's nothing to fear but Sphere itself
By Mark V. Moorhead,
February 19, 1998
When and if we humans make first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence, the experience may have this much in common with Sphere: It could be... More>>
Is Pedro Almodvar at an awkward in-between stage? Or is he just lost?
By Scott Timberg,
February 12, 1998
His eye trained on the manic collision of Catholicism and consumerism, Pedro Almodovar has made some of the liveliest, most genre-bending films... More>>
Take heart, Boomers: You're never too old to be tortured by romance
By Scott Timberg,
February 12, 1998
The Only Thrill, directed by Houston native Peter Masterson, is a conventional, sentimental movie that nonetheless hits where it aims. The film,... More>>
