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Monthly Archives: March 1999
By | March 1999
Forget “The Replacement Killers”, this is the real American Chow Yun-Fat debut…
Forget "The Replacement Killers", this is the real American Chow Yun-Fat debut. Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is the first Chinese-born immigrant in the NYPD...
You know, usually I expect the studios to dump all their cinematic turds in January but, man, it's March already and I'm still sitting through this stuff....
At the week-long Cinequest '99 in San Jose (February 25-March 3), nearly 60 films screened. In addition, there were appearances by such notables as Rod...
They say, "The Lord loves an idiot," but not nearly as much as Tinseltown. Throughout the years, the big movie machine has displayed an amazing love affair...
Writer/director Roger Kumble follows in the footsteps of Roger Vadim, Milos Forman, and Stephen Frears by making adaptation number four of Choderlos do...
As the wave of Tarantino-style films have ebbed, a new wave of insipid teen films have risen to take its place. Thankfully, the Brits have given us a...
My high school NEVER had uber-babes like the four beauties who rule Ronald Reagan High in "Jawbreaker", and I bet yours didn't either. Perfect bodies,...
I met up with the director of "Conceiving Ada," Lynn Hershman Leeson, at San Francisco's CafE Puccini in North Beach. We discussed her new work, the...
As a tough guy Robert DeNiro has been an indomitable cinematic presence over the years. When he's strayed beyond the genre ("Awakenings" and "Midnight...
After putting her life in order, Juliette Lewis has returned from the abyss. Apparently Hollywood has decided she hasn't been humiliated enough, so she...