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1999 Stories by Hal Hinson

• God help him

  published August 26, 1999

  What is it they say -- that even a flea can reach Mount Olympus riding in Pegasus' mane? Well, in the case of the new Albert Brooks comedy The... More >>

• Pull my Bowfinger

  published August 12, 1999

  Filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger, the lead character in the intermittently funny Hollywood satire Bowfinger starring Steve Martin and Eddie... More >>

• Super zeroes

  published August 5, 1999

  In the highly competitive, dog-eat-dog world of the modern-day superhero, the members of the group that eventually becomes known as the Mystery... More >>

• An Affair to dismember

  published August 5, 1999

  GQ magazine runs a column every month titled "What Were We Thinking?" to present a ludicrous photograph of a famous person dressed in what... More >>

• Decline and fall again

  published August 5, 1999

  Do you know why the burglars at the Watergate Apartments failed that fateful night in 1972, causing their own arrest and, ultimately, the... More >>

• Quick -- run away

  published July 29, 1999

  Runaway Bride, the reunion of Pretty Woman stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, isn't a sequel; it only feels like one. In... More >>

• A tragic farewell

  published July 15, 1999

  Eyes Wide Shut, the final motion picture from the late, great Stanley Kubrick, is easily the most anticipated adult film of the year. It's... More >>

• The Enemy Is Us

  published July 8, 1999

  Do you feel snug and secure in your cozy suburban life? Are you happy in your picture-perfect home, with your carefully manicured lawn, your kids... More >>

• Why, Wild West?

  published July 1, 1999

  It won't take long for anyone familiar with the 1960s Wild, Wild West television series to notice that something isn't right with Barry... More >>

• Daddy love

  published June 24, 1999

  The new Adam Sandler comedy, Big Daddy, isn't just the funniest movie of the summer; it's also the most improbable feel-good movie of the... More >>

• To Cuba and back

  published June 17, 1999

  Joy isn't a word that often comes to mind when thinking about the films of director Wim Wenders. But infectious, intoxicating joy is the emotion... More >>

• Keys to the heart

  published June 10, 1999

  Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged is a movie of enthralling visual poetry. Set almost entirely inside a ravishing Roman villa, it is a love story... More >>

• Monkey don't

  published June 3, 1999

  In an early scene in Instinct, we're told that a brilliant primatologist named Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins) is being brought back to the United... More >>

• Mummy dearest

  published May 13, 1999

  In 1932, when director Karl Freund wanted to scare the socks off the brave movie patrons who had come to see the original Universal Pictures... More >>

• The great caper collapse

  published April 29, 1999

  Sean Connery has always been a terse, minimalist actor, spitting out his lines in tight bursts of Scottish brogue. But in Entrapment, the kingly... More >>

• Tin men

  published April 22, 1999

  In Pushing Tin, the edgy new comedy from British director Mike Newell, the dominant image is a black screen pulsing with obscure fluorescent... More >>

• Hard time

  published April 15, 1999

  Imagine, if you will, one of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's classic road movies that never leaves the terminal, and you get a pretty good description... More >>

• True Drew, plus an uneasy Go

  published April 8, 1999

  Courage comes in an infinite variety of forms and faces, but who among us would be brave enough to go back and relive our high school years, face... More >>

• Shakespeare in puppy love

  published April 1, 1999

  A couple of years or so ago, Jane Austen suddenly rose from classical obscurity to become the hottest screenwriter in Hollywood. Now, it is... More >>

• Do the Crime, do the time

  published March 25, 1999

  There's an old adage that says that by the age of 40, a man gets the face he deserves. If that's true, then Clint Eastwood, the producer,... More >>