The Cable Guy spoofs TV culture; Moll Flanders spooks a classic novel
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
June 20, 1996
It must be liberating for an actor to work with directors who routinely say, "You can ham it up all you want--there's no way you can overact this... More>>
Writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't play games in Welcome to the Dollhouse
By Jimmy Fowler,
June 20, 1996
When asked if there's anything he'd like to discuss about his hot new indie flick, Welcome to the Dollhouse, writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't... More>>
The Arrival's creepy tale of alien infiltration makes believers out of us
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
June 13, 1996
Zane (Charlie Sheen), the hero of the new sci-fi film The Arrival, is a geeky, quasi-paranoid radio astronomer. Zane works at the Jet Propulsion... More>>
So far this summer, we've lost only 849 lives in Texas boating accidents, and I think that's a real credit to the new Alamo Plastic Speedboat... More>>
Dragon slaying with a lot of Heart and even a little soul
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
June 06, 1996
After the groundwork laid already this summer by Twister and Mission: Impossible, there's no use or point in mentioning that in DragonHeart the... More>>
Denise Calls Up babbles away, then hangs up on you
By Jimmy Fowler,
June 06, 1996
Writer-director Hal Salwen may be only now releasing his feature-film debut Denise Calls Up, but he is no neophyte to filmmaking. The New York... More>>
Stephen King embarked on a new project recently--The Green Mile, a serialized novel that he's publishing in short monthly paperback installments.... More>>
Satire is both sweet and tart on Cold Comfort Farm
By Jimmy Fowler,
May 30, 1996
There are a couple reasons why director John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm should have made no splashier an American debut than Masterpiece... More>>
The number of movie screens in Dallas has almost doubled overnight. But that's no cause for applause.
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
May 23, 1996
AMC's The Grand--the Gotham City of film-exhibition venues--officially opened its doors in May 1995 with its inaugural movie, Die Hard with a... More>>
I Shot Andy Warhol fatally wounds an American legend
By Jimmy Fowler,
May 16, 1996
Sources as varied as the artist's published diaries and Jean Stein's Edie: An American Biography have documented that Andy Warhol had a peculiar... More>>
Putting the audience in harm's way gives Twister its punch
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
May 16, 1996
There is virtually no doubt in my mind that the opening scene of Twister is more terrifying than being trapped in an actual tornado. As a small... More>>
Last Dance struggles with the burden of being Dead Man Walking lite
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
May 09, 1996
When I walked out of a screening of Dead Man Walking last January, I didn't quite know what to think. Here was a movie written and directed by... More>>
Loopy pacing and awful performances doom the hell-bound Heaven's Prisoners
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
May 09, 1996
The buzz on Heaven's Prisoners, the screen adaptation of James Lee Burke's novel, has been so miserable for such a long time that its release... More>>
Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films
By Arnold Wayne Jones,
May 02, 1996
In 1975, Ellen Burstyn--who'd won the Academy Award for best actress the previous year--caused a stir when she publicly decried the lack of good... More>>
