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By | May 1998
Like “Hoop Dreams,” Spike Lee’s latest revolves around a hot high school basketball star…
Like "Hoop Dreams," Spike Lee's latest revolves around a hot high school basketball star (NBær Ray Allen as the kid poetically named Jesus) and like...
This is a brave summer movie. Yeah, this is another asteroid-is-about-to-destroy-the-earth flick but it does what no other summer movie will dare do --...
1998 is the year of Christina Ricci's breasts. This film, "Buffalo 66" and probably a couple of others focus so much attention on them, they almost have...
How does a rip-off of a German toy for adults seep its way into the American consciousness? Good marketing and dumb luck, as told in this documentary....
...and lose your mind. This Soviet-era Russian film displays the horrors of World War II in a manner that makes "The Deer Hunter" look like "The Green...
Iara Lee ("Synthetic Pleasures") has made her second documentary, about the people who created and developed the broad class of electronic music. What she...
Some critics have said this is the worst piece of s**t they've ever seen. Gus Van Sant thinks it's brilliant. I've been to Ohio. I'm with Gus. This...
"Les Miserables" is yet another remake of the classic tale of the unfortunate escaped convicted turned rich, good-deed-doer. The all-star cast includes...
A cute "Trainspotting"-esque caper about two con men and a girl. The cons, Dylan (Dan Futterman), the smarmy American expatriate and Jez (Stuart Townsend)...
Back in the days when I did reviews for the late, great Film Threat Video Guide - a moment of silence, please - I had an unwritten rule. If a movie was...