Reviews
MVP: Most Valuable Primate
Jack is a young chimpanzee who serves as an object of study. He has been taught sign-language and is capable many things that would typically considered human. When his mentor dies, Jack is sold to a laboratory where he would be used as a lab rat and [...]
And Justice For All
At times deadly earnest and incongruously surreal, Norman Jewison’s 1979 film "…And Justice for All" still sucker punches in its audacious indictment of the corruption and abuse rampant within the legal system. In the generation since [...]
Sister, Sister
During the audio commentary on the newly released DVD ’Sister Sister’, director Bill Condon reveals that the original script for the film was entitled ’The Louisana Swamp Murders’ and dealt with a brother and sister who enjoyed killing tourists, [...]
Last Hurrah For Chivalry
When thinking of John Woo, most people immediately have a predetermined image in their minds, of dazzling action movies with blazing guns and explosions, choreographed and staged to create an almost lyrical tragedy in the midst of all the mayhem. What [...]
Untamed Heart
1993 seemed to be a year in which romance flourished, full-force, on the big screen. With sweeping, epic love stories like Vincent Ward’s "Map of the Human Heart," Martin Scorsese’s "The Age of Innocence" and James Ivory’s [...]
The Astounding She-Monster
Ronnie Ashcroft’s dreadful calling card to the cinema begins as a heist caper, with the abduction of a prominent socialite. The kidnappers almost reach freedom when they encounter the glowing She-Monster on a deserted (what else?) highway. Smashing [...]