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PEPPERMINT CANDY

By | October 2000

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! “Peppermint Candy” goes backwards in time, in increasingly larger leaps from days to years, to chart Yongho’s downward spiral…

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PEPPERMINT CANDY

The haunting second feature from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong(probably best known on these shores as the screenwriter behind Park Kwang soo's "To...

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CHUNHYANG

Although he's made close to 100 films in his native South Korea, director Im Kwon-tæk remains a relative enigma here in the West - although the...

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KNOCKAROUND GUYS

NOT YET REVIEWED. SYNOPSIS: ^ The film follows four sons of well-known Brooklyn-based mobsters and their desperate fight to retrieve a bag of cash in a...

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THE BAD NEWS BEARS

I coached little league baseball for four years and the truth is, kids swear. You're not supposed to encourage it, but it's pretty damn amusing when it...

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FIELD OF DREAMS

"Field of Dreams" is based on a novel by W.P. Kinsella that I thought to be practically unfilmable. It's about Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), a '60s...

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MAJOR LEAGUE

There is nothing wrong with grade-A prime aged Angus beef, but sometimes all you really want is a McDonald's hamburger. "Major League" is the quarter...

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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

This was probably supposed to be a feminist manifesto, but the men steal the picture. Jon Lovitz plays the wonderfully weasely baseball scout Ernie...

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EIGHT MEN OUT

It's hard to believe now that baseball players were ever underpaid and mistreated, but in the early part of the century players took what they were...

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ED

There's a 1949 movie starring Ray Milland called "It Happens Every Spring". Milland plays a college professor who invents a concoction of some sort that,...

SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL

The official dates for the Eight Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) are [ March 6th ] through [ March 11th, 2001, ] but from now until [...

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