They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for October, 1987
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Purely on instinct, I think I’ve built up a resistance to movies about people with handicaps. That’s not a swipe at anyone’s personal ailments, but at filmmakers who tend to mangle these stories into soppy, manipulative personal appeals with lots of weepy music and inspirational dialogue. I can remember some years back a movie called Amy, […]
Suspect (1987)
The general thinking is that Cher can pretty much do anything. She’s so confident and so talented that you assume on general principal that whatever she steps into she’ll succeed. Much of my exposure to Cher has been through the movies, in films like Mask and Silkwood where she seemed organic to the blue-collar setting. […]
Fatal Beauty (1987)
Whoopi Goldberg continues to burn whatever good will she achieved in The Color Purple with Fatal Beauty yet another noisy, brainless action picture that shows none of the charm nor the special talents that she displayed in Spielberg’s film or on stage in her stand-up act. When I saw her enter this picture disguised as […]
The Sicilian (1987)
I don’t normally do this, but I came to The Sicilian with a lot of outside baggage loaded in my head. In short, all of the production problems and the history with the film’s director came with me to the screening. This flies in the face of my rule to see every movie in a matter-of-fact […]
Prince of Darkness (1987)
I relate the films of John Carpenter to a bag of Cheetos. When they work, they are fun, cheesy and contain no nutritional value whatsoever. He has peaked with the original Halloween and then just a few years ago proved that he was better than his filmography indicates by making the sci-fi love story Starman. In between […]
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
The best credit that I can probably give to Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers is to note that I liked it a lot more than The Chipmunk Adventure. I realize that one does not necessarily coincide with the other but in the world of animation aimed at children, it might stand for a lot. The major difference is […]
Weeds (1987)
I have a feeling that I might have wanted to see Weeds on the stage rather than a in movie theater. That way its songs could reverberate in my soul a little better. They feel more real than the rest of the film. This is not a movie that I was dying to see, and so […]
Hello, Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
I was unaware that there was a horror movie called Prom Night. Then, just this morning I was rolling back through my reviews from years past and discovered that not only did I see that movie, but I reviewed it as well. To my amazement, I found that I had written this: “I liked Prom Night a […]
