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By | May 1997
Work of art or pretentious tripe? I’m not sure yet…
Work of art or pretentious tripe? I'm not sure yet. After speaking with writer Wallace Shawn, of "My Dinner With Andre" fame, I'm really not sure. Here's...
Divine Milla Jovovich is the 5th element "supreme being" the world needs to survive. This is the only thing I found believable in this whole movie. See...
"Austin Powers" is Mike Myers' parody of 1960's spy movies like "Our Man Flint" and psychedelic freakout flicks like "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"....
Jan Svankmajer, whose name is almost always mentioned in the same breath as the Brothers Quay, is an animator with a deeply philosophical, psychological...
You'd think living in Ireland would be fabulous what with delicious beer, out of control youths and closed DeLorean factories ... you know, the things that...
The prospect of a vendetta between man and his creator provides the fertile basis for a dark drama or a bawdy farce, but here the filmmakers try to...
There's nothing like a roomful of hardened, cynical film critics all crying like a bunch of schoolgirls. Terrence McNally translates his hit on and off...
Not even Hollywood can keep up with Clinton's scandal du jour, but "Murder at 1600" comes close as a cloud of sex, greed and corruption blows through the...
Here's the second of the ten year high school reunion triumvirate, after "Grosse Pointe Blank" and before "Til' There Was You" or whatever it's called now,...
Let me get this out of the way right now. This movie is billed as a cross between "Trainspotting" and "Beavis and Butthead". There's some credence...
