Carl Colby traces the life of his father William, who rose from OSS paratrooper to major CIA “spook” during the Cold War and Vietnam, going deeper into the secretive maze that finally consumed him as the agency’s head during the scandals of the Nixon/Ford era. Despite strong file footage and …
Amanda and Laurel. Runaway sisters from separate foster homes. The teenage one has gotten herself pregnant, and compounds the problem with the dim idea of kidnapping the knowledgeable and opinionated clerk from Connie's Baby Connection. The clerk turns out to have problems of her own. "Are you saying she's some …
Martin Scorsese's long awaited sequel to Raging Bull.
Flowers, their cultivation and arrangement, are only one of the obsessions of the protagonist -- a nice cultured middle-aged man' who, in addition, pays a twentyish model once a week to undress to an aria by Donizetti; who then works off his passions on the church organ across the street; …
For anyone who retains warm memories of the early, baroque efforts of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda -- Kanal and Ashes and Diamonds, in particular -- and has had no access to any since, the dishevelled look of Man of Iron is apt to be a bit of a jolt. A …
And a movie to match. A drab little comedy, sans laughs, about a repressed homosexual bus conductor, in early-Sixties Dublin, who has aspirations to high art: namely as director of an amateur theatrical production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Albert Finney makes the man human enough, overcoming a good deal of …
Director Zack Snyder sucker-punches Richard Lester’s Superman II, to date Hollywood’s final say on how to film a comic book. Credit the man of steal and screenwriters David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan with adding a couple of new wrinkles to the designedly faded red cape of Krypton’s favorite son. …
Whoa. He knows Tai Chi. Well, maybe not really. Keanu Reeves directs this story of underground fighting, possibly just so he could utter the command, "Finish him!"
Preprogrammed comedy of a stiff-necked Texas Ranger charged with safeguarding five witnesses to homicide, a Texas Longhorns cheerleading squad. (He confiscates their cellphones, implements a dress code, shops for Tampax, gets advice on dating, grooming, and relating to his daughter.) Tommy Lee Jones, displaying a murderous deadpan, would be the …
A cable-channel comedian (Robin Williams, given plenty of scope for his penile obsession) runs for President on a dare, and thereafter needs to be continually nagged by his aides to be "edgier" and "funnier." These might also be the voices inside the head of writer and director Barry Levinson, who …
Not just a movie title, but an honorific conferred by Playgirl magazine on its readership's annual favorite centerfold. For the year 1992, that was Dirk Shafer, thus officially inducted into the army of male sex symbols who in their private lives prefer males themselves. A pregnant topic for a movie, …