Harrison Ford on “Sabrina”
December 10, 1995 | Harrison Ford is alone in the posh Manhattan hotel suite, unfettered by handlers or retainers, standing near a picture window that overlooks Central Park. He smiles warmly at…
Beetlejuice
March 30, 1988| Three years ago, director Tim Burton startled audiences with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, a brightly-painted swirl of cartoonish lunacy. But now it’s clear that bizarre comedy was a mere…
Dave
May 7, 1993| If filmmaker Frank Capra had never existed, film critics would have had to invent him, if only to describe a particular type of savvy, satirical but basically soft-hearted…
Dick
August 4, 1999 | What was the Committee to Re-Elect the President? Why were people so concerned about an 18 ½-minute gap on a White House audiotape? How did G. Gordon…
Ed Wood
October 7, 1994 | Edward D. Wood Jr. — war veteran, Hollywood fringe-dweller and uncloseted cross-dresser — wanted to make movies in the worst way. Unfortunately, that is exactly what he…
Bob Woodward on ‘Wired’
August 21, 1989 | “John Belushi,” says his biographer, Bob Woodward, “really was representative of the ‘70s, in that period of excess. In that excess of excess. “If you attempt to…
The Phantom
June 6, 1996 | After wading through the angst of three doom-and-gloom Batman movies, wouldn't you like to see a masked superhero who enjoys his work? Who actually thinks battling bad…
Vibes
August 5, 1988 | Jeff Goldblum, an oversized praying mantis with a perpetually befuddled air, and Cyndi Lauper, a peroxided kewpie doll with an impish Noo Yawk snarl, make an…
Problem Child
July 30, 1990 | Problem Child is a seriously demented comedy with a great deal of rudely subversive, rigorously inventive wit. It has the shape of a bland TV sitcom, and…
Cry Freedom
February 19, 1988 | In Cry Freedom, a stirring melodrama of epic proportions, director Richard Attenborough doesn't pretend to be fair, or reasonable, or well-balanced. This is a movie where someone…