They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for January, 1989
Parents (1989)
I think I know the general purpose of the horror comedy Parents but I am not sure I get the point. Bob Balaban, directing his first feature, apparently wants to rip the lid off the luster of “The Fabulous Fifties” by illustrating the sinister machinations that lie just under the surface. The problem is that […]
Physical Evidence (1989)
I hate movies that are so clearly riding the success of an earlier more successful movie – I think in the film critics’ terminology it’s called a ‘rip-off’. In the case of the crime thriller Physical Evidence, the successful film was Jagged Edge. That film, which I loved, was about a public defender played by […]
