Candyman
October 16, 1992 | Candyman is unique among recent mad-slasher monster melodramas, in that it has a brain in its head as well as blood on its hands. There’s enough…
River Phoenix on “My Own Private Idaho”
October 13, 1991 | River Phoenix is bleary-eyed and bedraggled, looking and sounding very much like someone who was rudely awakened just a few minutes ago. The 21-year-old actor doesn’t…
Shallow Grave
February 24, 1995 | You may hate yourself the morning after you see it — in fact, you may not like yourself too much even while you’re watching it —…
Joe Versus The Volcano
March 9, 1990 | If, as the poet noted, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, then Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) truly is an exceptional fellow: His desperately unhappy life…
Chameleon Street
January 3, 1992 | Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Two years ago this month, Wendell B. Harris Jr. copped the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival…
Kevin Costner on “Field of Dreams”
May 3, 1989 | Kevin Costner was all set to make Revenge, a violent melodrama about illicit love and bloody retribution, when he was asked to read a script…
James Earl Jones on “Field of Dreams”
May 6, 1989 | In Shoeless Joe, the 1982 novel on which Field of Dreams is based, the hero of the piece is Ray Kinsella, an Ohio farmer who heeds…
Field of Dreams
April 21, 1989 | It’s difficult, even more difficult than hitting a high, hard one into the stands at the Astrodome. And yet, somehow, the people who made a wonderful…
Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell on Life with Father: Alfred Hitchcock
March 11, 1993 | There’s at least one brightly charming story in The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Donald Spoto’s controversial 1983 biography of The Master of Suspense,…
Clint Eastwood on “Unforgiven”
August 6, 1992 | Now is the summer of Clint Eastwood’s reassessment. It is the best of times for the 62-year-old superstar, as he greets a seemingly endless series of…