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Chunk Style

Heavy sheds light on overweight misfit

By M.V. Moorhead, September 19, 1996

Score one for the character actors. Paul Newman's chubby, dim sidekick in Nobody's Fool, which was set in a small town in upstate New York, was... More>>

Refried Green Tomatoes

The Spitfire Grill isn't cooking with both burners

By M.V. Moorhead, September 12, 1996

The names of the three main characters in The Spitfire Grill are Hannah, Shelby and Percy. That last name, the heroine's, is short for--get... More>>

Pol Barers

A Perfect Candidate parties hardy

By M.V. Moorhead, September 12, 1996

The documentary A Perfect Candidate is like Al Gore doing the macarena at the Democratic National Convention--proof that political satire has... More>>

Rough Sketch

Basquiat misses its scrawling

By M.V. Moorhead, September 05, 1996

Part of Andy Warhol's genius was his witty skill at daring us not to think he was a genius. Plenty of people took this dare, and it was no skin... More>>

Fade to Blackout

The Trigger Effect will knock your lights out

By M.V. Moorhead, September 05, 1996

Not far into The Trigger Effect, we see a street sign which reads "Maple Ct." This is probably a nod by writer/director David Koepp to "The... More>>

Crossbreed 'em and Weep

Dr. Moreau dies on the slab

By M.V. Moorhead, August 29, 1996

H.G. Wells' brusquely brief novel The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the kinkiest of all classic horror tales. The likably flawed narrator/hero,... More>>

Candied Camera

Willy Wonka's dark chocolate still tasty at 25

By M.V. Moorhead, August 29, 1996

Those of us who were children during the late '60s and early '70s remember the kiddy movies of the time as a sorry, syrupy lot--as, I suspect,... More>>

Stake Me Out at the Ball Game

Robert De Niro destroys his batty average in The Fan

By M.V. Moorhead, August 22, 1996

The Fan marks Robert De Niro's fourth stalker. He's Gil Renard, a San Francisco knife salesman whose avocation is his twisted, fanatical... More>>

Riff Trade

Altman noodles through jazz-packed Kansas City

By M.V. Moorhead, August 15, 1996

After the focused ugliness of Short Cuts, the casual, audience-contemptuous sloppiness of Robert Altman's Ready to Wear (Pret-a-Porter) was a... More>>

My Favorite Martians

Hollywood aims its cameras at the Fourth Rock From the Sun

By M.V. Moorhead, August 15, 1996

Regarding last week's announcement that Meteorite ALH84001 may have been crawling with Martian germs: What's the big deal? Science may consider... More>>

Water-Hazard World

Tin Cup: Kevin Costner defeated in golf war

By M.V. Moorhead, August 15, 1996

A perky little armadillo bustles around under the titles of Ron Shelton's Tin Cup, snout out, tail high. After a while, it becomes clear that... More>>

Dire Straights

By M.V. Moorhead, August 08, 1996

In Maybe . . . Maybe Not, a character mentions that he's going to a Men's Movement discussion group. "Oh, that's so '70s," says another, and... More>>

An Authoress and a Gentlewoman

Emma director helms filmdom's latest "Dear Jane" letter

By M.V. Moorhead, August 08, 1996

With the exception of Mansfield Park and a few minor or unfinished works, all of Jane Austen's fiction has been adapted either for movies or for... More>>

Pet Reprieve

Snuff, already, with the cinematic dispatching of dogs

By M.V. Moorhead, August 01, 1996

Who saw Old Yeller? Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? I'm sure! I cried my eyes out . . . ... More>>

Chantastic

By M.V. Moorhead, August 01, 1996

"Breathtaking" is one of the most overworked words in the critical lexicon, but make no mistake--the Jackie Chan vehicle Supercop is... More>>

Other Canine Casualties

By M.V. Moorhead, August 01, 1996

Cape Fear--De Niro poisons pooch Cujo--St. Bernard catches rabies, terrorizes people, dies gruesomely Dances With Wolves--Dog killed by evil... More>>

Just the Fix, Ma'am

By M.V. Moorhead, July 25, 1996

Movies about junkies certainly don't exact the same toll from their audiences that actual junkies do from the people who care about them, but... More>>

Grin, Reaper

By M.V. Moorhead, July 25, 1996

Farce often operates best with the sword of horror hanging over its head, and horror can chill more deeply when spiked generously with humor.... More>>

Attention, Choppers!

By M.V. Moorhead, July 18, 1996

With the exception, maybe, of Oliver Stone, no current American director is as adept at staging battle scenes as Edward Zwick--the engagements in... More>>

Accent Adventure

By M.V. Moorhead, July 18, 1996

John Sayles rushes in where other straight white males fear to tread. He's written screenplays set everywhere from Secaucus to Harlem to Ireland... More>>

Tempest in a Saucer

By M.V. Moorhead, July 11, 1996

Independence Day isn't dull--it holds the attention for all of its 144 minutes. Sometimes, it does so through the shocking gracelessness of its... More>>

Nerd Mentality

By M.V. Moorhead, July 11, 1996

Misfit kids--nerds, loners, class clowns--have a rough time of it in school, but for many of them, the ultimate payoff is considerable: They... More>>

The Late Show

Entertainment journalist Bill Rocz has left the screening room

By M.V. Moorhead, July 04, 1996

Bill Rocz, the movie critic and celebrity interviewer for KPHO-TV, died last week after an excruciatingly long struggle with Lou Gehrig's... More>>

Jest Barely

By M.V. Moorhead, July 04, 1996

This much can be said about Striptease, anyway: It comes closer to capturing the spirit, if not the stature, of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders than... More>>

Drop-Dead Beautiful

By David Gofstein, July 04, 1996

Andy Warhol and his circle of '60s scenemakers are the focus of a cinematic renaissance. I Shot Andy Warhol detailed the attempted assassination... More>>