Robert De Niro on A Bronx Tale
September 26, 1993 | For a superstar who’s long been notorious as a press-shy recluse, Robert De Niro certainly has been conspicuously visible in recent weeks. There he is in…
Texasville
September 28, 1990| It’s 1984 in the Texas town of Anarene, and things have changed a lot in the 30-odd years since the last picture show closed down. Duane Jackson (Jeff…
John Cusack of The Sure Thing
March 2, 1985| John Cusack, star of The Sure Thing, may be The Next Big Thing if his movie is a commercial success. The prospect leaves him decidedly ambivalent. “To tell…
Julian Sands on A Room With a View
December 12, 1986| Julian Sands, the handsome young star of A Room with a View, had tried to be a game fellow the night before and joined his Houston hosts for…
Five Corners
May 7, 1988 | Playwright John Patrick Shanley wrote the script for Five Corners long before turning his attention to Moonstruck, the film for which he earned this year’s Academy…
A Man of No Importance
January 13, 1995 | Some actors are content to rely on safe tricks and familiar tics as they grow older. Others — Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood — are more eager…
Ruby
March 27, 1992 | In sharp, striking contrast to the flash and filigree of Oliver Stone's stylistically brilliant JFK, John Mackenzie's Ruby, the latest bit of Warren Commission-bashing, has the low-rent look and blunt-edged…
Flesh and Bone
November 5, 1993 | Slowly, mesmerizingly, Flesh and Bone unfolds as a dark and brooding drama that rewards your patience with the cumulative impact of a primal myth. A tale…
Jean-Louis Trintignant of A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
December 30, 1986 | First, the bad news: Contrary to what you might have thought after seeing Claude Lelouch’s lushly romantic A Man and a Woman (1966), the lovers did not…
Tremors
January 19, 1990 | Cross a 1950s-style monster rally with a redneck comedy of bad manners, then add a generous dose of campy cleverness, and you get Tremors, the first…