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By | April 2000
TK
Meet the Flinstones. Fred's brooding and sullen, Wilma's caught up in class strife, Barney's known to simulate anal sex, and Betty's a rockstar groupie....
The story for "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" has about as much complexity as any of the classic 60s Hanna-Barbera animated episodes. The problem is...
Dan Smiley doesn't look like a rock-and-roller. A potato-faced middle-aged man in thick glasses and a button-down shirt, Smiley is a mainstay of the...
The set-up is classic in its simplicity. Michæl Harrison owes $25,000 to the mob by the end of the day. If he doesn't pay up in time, the debt...
In 1991 my buddies and I watched "Pump Up The Volume" maybe 10 times. It defined the six month period of my life when I felt rebellious, angry at my...
"Remember, men," many coaches will say, trying to inspire their teams when facing far superior opponents. "They put their pants on one leg at a time just...
Call it "Rashomon in Miniature." Like that Kurosawa classic of relative reality perspectives, Loren-Paul Caplin's grimly ironic "History of the World in 8...
She's a he. Look, it's not as if I'm giving anything away, since the video box for "Mob Queen" hails Jon Carnoy's mobster farce as "'The Sopranos' meets...
Forest Whitaker is an amazing actor. He does not possess the traditional leading man looks, but he is clearly overqualified in the leading man department....
Director Mike Figgis ("Leaving las Vegas") delivers a digitally shot, experimental film, which in plot is a mini "Magnolia," as the lives of four LA people...
