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Meeting 95 Projections

By M.V. Moorhead, December 28, 1995

Time once again for the film reviewer's grand annual act of arbitrary self-indulgence--as opposed to his petite weekly acts of arbitrary... More>>

Ms. Houston, We Have a Problem

By M.V. Moorhead, December 28, 1995

Waiting to Exhale has a phony gloss that makes it feel faintly retro. All those impeccably dressed actors ambling around Phoenix locations like... More>>

The Presidents Analyst

By M.V. Moorhead, December 21, 1995

Throughout Oliver Stone's Nixon, the title character, played by Anthony Hopkins, interacts a la Forrest Gump with historical figures like JFK and... More>>

Austen Pops

By M.V. Moorhead, December 21, 1995

It's been a good year in the movies for Jane Austen, and who deserves it more? A month ago, we had a good, workmanlike version of her final... More>>

The Jungle in There

By M.V. Moorhead, December 14, 1995

Jumanji, in the film of the same name, is a magical board game in which each roll of the dice conjures up some new terror from the Jungian jungle... More>>

Sequel Rites

By M.V. Moorhead, December 14, 1995

Father of the Bride Part II: Directed by Charles Shyer; with Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams and Martin Short. Rated PG. Is it... More>>

Old Rush

By M.V. Moorhead, December 07, 1995

In Wild Bill, wildness has taken its toll on Bill. As played by Jeff Bridges in this shifting fever-dream from director Walter Hill, Bill, though... More>>

Pennitence

By M.V. Moorhead, November 30, 1995

Sean Penn's The Crossing Guard is an examination of how different people cope with devastating grief. Jack Nicholson is a jeweler whose young... More>>

Oppression Roulette

By M.V. Moorhead, November 30, 1995

In Get Shorty, John Travolta glided through his role with the confidence and smoothness of a true star, and with an infectious delight at being... More>>

Breaking Even in Vegas

By M.V. Moorhead, November 23, 1995

Optimism is the chief cash crop of Las Vegas, and everything about the city--the seductive casinos, the fast marriages, the endless, artificial... More>>

Fast Talkers, Pugnacious Puppets, 007

By M.V. Moorhead, November 23, 1995

The title of Smoke, which is set in a Brooklyn cigar store, refers to what the characters spend much of the movie blowing at each other. Its... More>>

Carrey a Big Shtick

By M.V. Moorhead, November 16, 1995

In Jim Carrey's first star vehicle, the hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the comedian was "on" every second. He worked himself into a demented... More>>

A Measure of Bigotry

By M.V. Moorhead, November 16, 1995

"It's a simple battle between good and evil." So says Lon Mabon, chairman of the Oregon Citizens Alliance, of the struggle to pass the title... More>>

Flawed Funny Foster Family

By M.V. Moorhead, November 09, 1995

The older I get, the more people I meet, the more I realize how fortunate I am with regard to family. I come from a fairly large, working-class... More>>

An Insubstantial Repast

By M.V. Moorhead, November 09, 1995

At the beginning of Feast of July, we see a pregnant young woman, alone, stumbling through cold, desolate moors and mountains. She takes refuge... More>>

Urbane of His Existence

By M.V. Moorhead, November 02, 1995

Woody Allen and Mel Brooks both started out in movies by making wacky, hip slapstick farces. Allen later grew to be such a snob about comedy... More>>

Poetic Nonsense

By M.V. Moorhead, November 02, 1995

Unlike Southeast Asia last week, Agnieszka Holland's new film Total Eclipse has nary an eclipse, total or partial, in its length. A... More>>

Short Subjects

By M.V. Moorhead, October 26, 1995

After rumors that Louis Mall's Vanya on 42nd Street would open in the Valley proved baseless, there seemed little to do but wait for it to arrive... More>>

Mallrats

By M.V. Moorhead, October 26, 1995

Kevin Smith's debut feature, Clerks, was about two young slackers hanging out at their boring counter help jobs, mooning about women, wrangling... More>>

"A" Bomb

By M.V. Moorhead, October 19, 1995

The theme of The Scarlet Letter is hypocrisy, and the new film version of this classic never embodies its theme more strikingly than in one of... More>>

Soviet's Choice

By M.V. Moorhead, October 19, 1995

The 1926 masterpiece Bronenosets Potemkin (The Battleship Potemkin), the second feature of a wise-ass 27-year-old Soviet director named Sergei... More>>

Murderess Intent

By M.V. Moorhead, October 12, 1995

Director Gus Van Sant's crackling new film To Die For matches up perfectly with the performance of its star, Nicole Kidman. It's as lean and... More>>

Short Subjects

By M.V. Moorhead, October 12, 1995

Ralph--I beg your pardon, "Rafe"--Fiennes plays Lenny Nero, his first full-fledged Hollywood hero, in Strange Days, a futuristic thriller from... More>>

ZOOT SLEUTH

By M.V. Moorhead, October 05, 1995

Director Carl Franklin's 1992 crime thriller One False Move was a complex, fascinating and scarily unpredictable exploration of the tensions... More>>

BLANKET INDICTMENT

By M.V. Moorhead, October 05, 1995

Though much about How to Make an American Quilt is lovely, both visually and emotionally, I don't know what to make of the picture. The press... More>>