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By | April 1998
A cute “Trainspotting”-esque caper about two con men and a girl…
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...
Mark Wahlberg trades in his big weapon from "Boogie Nights" for a real gun in this watered down Woo actioner. The result is a confused, mess leading to a...
Hey, what's that smell? Somebody finally cleaned the 'fridge at Miramax (Dimension, whatever) and released this 1996 remake of the 1994 Danish film, both...
Languorous but highly compelling tale about an aging yakuza who flirts with the notion of retirement as he gets dragged into one last showdown. The action...
Swell. DreamWorks Pictures kicks off its '98 releases with a talking animal movie. Woo-hoo! Keep dreamin'! Here's the deal: A lonely, stuttering...
Academy Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple ("American Dream") follows Woody Allen and his New Orleans jazz band on a tour through Europe. The...
Most of us film geeks weren't members of a college fraternity, were never invited to join, and wouldn't have accepted an invitation to join even with a gun...
This little gem from Japan is from 1995 but just now making the rounds of art houses in the U.S. It's not unlike David Lynch directing John Waters script...
Peter Weir ("Fearless" and "Witness") directs funny man Jim Carrey in this not so funny oddity. Carrey stars as Truman, a man with the ideal middle...
