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Archive for September, 1987
The Princess Bride (1987)
Every once in a while you see a movie that you could swear was made just for you. The Princess Bride, I feel, was made just for me. It sounds strange but it seems to be the kind of movie that I’ve been waiting for. One that is emotionally satisfying, wickedly funny and infinitely quotable. I swear, […]
Big Shots (1987)
If there is anything that I can’t stand, it’s a movie in which I say “Well, there’s a good movie in here.” But that’s what we have with Big Shots an junior-league action comedy that could have amounted to something if it weren’t cluttered with a lot of unreality involving little boys dealing with crooks, thieves killers […]
Orphans (1987)
I never saw the Lyle Kessler play upon which Orphans is based, but I’ve heard good things. I understand that it got good notices when it played at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater for the first three months of 1985 and had a successful run off Broadway at the Westside Theater in Manhattan where it ran for […]
Fatal Attraction (1987)
You don’t have to look very closely to see that Fatal Attraction is basically a swift backhand to self-indulgent white male privilege. This is an incredibly tense thriller from one end to the other, a warning flag to men who, for generations, have found it just fine to slither up to beautiful single women with a […]
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Never has one movie so fit my middling rating of two-and-a-half-stars. Amazon Women on the Moon is yet another sketch comedy movie like The Groove Tube or Loose Shoes in which the intent is just to throw stupid sketches at us large and small and hope that something will stick. By the weight of my laugh ratio I […]
Hellraiser (1987)
Much to my surprise, I am not as angry with “Hellraiser” as I assumed I would be. It might be easily dismissed as a just another disgusting, gory cycle of cinematic oblivion if I weren’t forced to admit that it tells a story that I found interesting. That’s not to say that it tells it […]
The Principal (1987)
What universe does this movie occupy? Early on I resigned the fact that it was dealing in the real world. Here is a hyper-violent high school action picture in which a man with serious anger-management issues is assigned to be the principal of a school that is one half-education and one half-Escape from New York, […]
