Echo Park
January 17, 1987| Right off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything very harsh to say about Echo Park, an innocuous comedy-drama about ambitious eccentrics in a…
Pinocchio (2002)
December 25, 2002 | Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio is such a ghastly misfire, such a charmless and witless waste of film, you can easily understand why Miramax refused to advance-screen it…
News of the World
Echoes of gritty ‘70s revisionist westerns – think Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand, or Robert Benton’s Bad Company, or Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller — reverberate throughout News of…
Kenneth Branagh
December 14, 1989 | Not the face of a matinee idol, not at all, and certainly not the grave majesty of a king. Relaxing in his Houston hotel suite, Kenneth…
Ben Gazzara
June 7, 1989 | “That’s a sweet smile, isn't it? A real cutie. Now I ask you: Who could hate a guy like this?” Ben Gazzara was heartily amused by the…
Fearless
October 29, 1993 | In the opening moments of Fearless, a deeply affecting and profoundly unsettling new film by Peter Weir (Witness), we are plunged into the story with a disorienting…
Love At Large
March 30, 1990| Filmmaker Alan Rudolph is a dreamy, deep-dyed romantic, as anyone who has seen Choose Me, Trouble in Mind or Made in Heaven can readily testify. His moody meditations…
Black Beauty
July 29, 1994| There have been many other film and TV versions of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell’s much-loved tale of a noble horse and the people who gallop in and out…
James Carville on “The War Room”
March 3, 1994| Never mind the nifty reviews and the Oscar nomination. As far as campaign strategist James Carville is concerned, the most amazing thing about The War Room is, people…
Harrison Ford on “Sabrina”
December 10, 1995 | Harrison Ford is alone in the posh Manhattan hotel suite, unfettered by handlers or retainers, standing near a picture window that overlooks Central Park. He smiles warmly at…