Howard the Duck
August 1, 1986 | Howard the Duck isn’t kid stuff. It's a wack!-wack!-wacky comedy-adventure, but much of its humor has a sarcastic, satirical edge best appreciated by teen-agers and adults.…
Lone Star
June 27, 1996 | Early in John Sayles’ Lone Star, there is a heated discussion about textbooks that, quite obviously, is really about something else. The scene is a parent-teacher meeting…
El Mariachi
March 12, 1993 | With El Mariachi, his already near-legendary debut feature, Robert Rodriguez establishes himself as a filmmaker of impressive self-assurance and — considering his puny budget of $7,000 and…
Stormy Monday
May 20, 1988 | Stormy Monday is a sleek, smoky romantic thriller, the sort of atmospheric neo-film noir that even very experienced directors seldom manage to pull off. Surprisingly enough,…
Hear My Song
February 21, 1992 | With a strut to its walk and a lilt to its talk, and a crafty bit of whimsy up its sleeve, Hear My Song is a…
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…
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…
I Am Vegenace: Retaliation
OK, a quick show of hands: How many of you actually knew there was a movie titled I Am Vegeance released in 2018? Wow, that many? Well, that’s probably why…
The Ice Harvest
November 23, 2005 | It’s the night before Christmas, and all through Wichita, mob-connected lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is making all the wrong moves. He’s a bit too generous…
Bringing Out The Dead
October 22, 1999 | Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the walking-wounded protagonist of Bringing Out the Dead, is a New York City paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen.…