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LA CUCARACHA

By | May 1999

“La Cucaracha” won last year’s Austin Film Festival and for good reason. Just the infamous Cockroach Scene is worth the price of admission alone…

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LA CUCARACHA

Eric Roberts turns in a career performance as drunken gringo Walter Pool in Jack Perez' wicked and wickedly funny "La Cucaracha." Pool's fled to Mexico as...

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STOP MAKING SENSE (15TH ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE)

This important Talking Heads concert film has been digitally remastered and re-released to mark the 15th anniversary of the original film. I viewed, and...

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TERMINATOR 2: 3D (THE RIDE)

This original work is James Cameron's best work since "Terminator 2". Too bad it took three years to come to California. Originally opened in 1996 at...

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GUY MADDIN: WAITING FOR TWILIGHT

Here's everything you ever wanted to know about Winnepeg filmmaker Guy Maddin, true or not. If you're looking for pure facts, Noam Gonick's documentary...

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TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS

You can take the director out of his surreal isolation but you can't always take the surreal isolation out of the director. Cult director Guy Maddin made...

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IDLE HANDS

Were you expecting a teen remake of "The Hands of Orlac"? Don't hold your breath. This film's a little closer to "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey". There's...

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EXISTENZ

Yaaaay! Our crazy uncle Dave from Canada is back! Some of you may be too young to remember the last time director David Cronenberg made a film from one of...

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ELECTION

Beuller? Beuller? Beuller?... Beuller?... Beuller? Where's Ferris? Oh, there he is on the floor. Brought to his knees and he still hasn't learned...

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LOST AND FOUND

David Spade tries to steal a page from fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Adam Sandler's book of success in this "Wedding Singer" knockoff. Here, Spade's...

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ENTRAPMENT

Why don't the studios in Hollywood make romantic thrillers like they used to? Apparently because they can't. Gin Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is an...

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