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By | May 1999
Love them or hate them, Trek fans make fine entertainment…
Love them or hate them, Trek fans make fine entertainment. While the Trek franchise begins to fade, there seems to be no shortage of Trek-obssesives out...
Shredded skin hangs from my bones as I write this, filleted by a self-inflicted sandpaper scouring after watching Mark David's "Sweet Thing." This sick,...
John Woo sparked a mass exodus of talent out of the Hong Kong film industry. Along with the spectre of the city's takeover by the mainland Chinese...
Like Jackie Chan, Jet Li's stateside success -- in "Lethal Weapon 4" -- has spurred the dubbing and dumping of his previous Hong Kong hits. In this 1996...
Former New Kid on the Block, Donnie Walhberg is credibly redemptive and sympathetic as Danny Quinn, a fallen son who returns home to the tough hood of...
Djibil Djop Mambety's first feature is a sprightly, spirited look at the life of an African street urchin, told through vignettes. The version I watched...
This is the latest effort by influential German director Wim Wenders, whose poetic "Wings of Desire" earned him a permanent blip on the art-film...
This film is ostensibly about a teenage boy coming out at high-school, but is really about the tribulations of growing up. Simon Shore's film goes out of...
This is a colorful, funny, and enchanting film about a young boy named Dou-Dou, and his unusual experiences while a guest of his Grandmother, a woman who...
This partially staged documentary is a powerful glimpse into lives of extreme desperation lived on the fringes of four major cities; Bombay, New York,...
