They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for February, 1988
Hope and Glory (1987)
I have a deep and abiding appreciation for movies that treat kids like kids. Far too often Hollywood wants them to be junior-league adults with smart mouths and the ability to outrun a police cruiser. John Boorman’s Hope and Glory is about the experience of being a child in London during World War II at a […]
School Daze (1988)
I have not seen Spike Lee’s previous work She’s Gotta Have It, so walking into School Daze, I only had the faintest idea of what to expect. Here is a movie that invokes a much more thoughtful framework of films like Animal House or Revenge of the Nerds employing the usual comic bric-a-brak but with […]
She’s Having a Baby (1988)
I just knocked the teen comedy For Keeps for giving the serious issue of teen pregnancy a cutsy-poo framework, and now here comes John Hughes She’s Having a Baby. I complained in the earlier film that the issue of pregnancy might have been handled by a better movie in Hughes’ hands and now that I’ve […]
