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Elvis Presley STAY AWAY, JOE. Among the King's lazy epics, this 1968 flick is notable for the way Presley and co-star Burgess Meredith impersonate Native Americans as manic subhumans.
Wild at Heart begins with the moody Sailor (Nicolas Cage) bashing a black man's head into pulp. And Sailor is the good guy in this storm-sky fresco of two crazy kids on the run. Sailor and his girlfriend Lula (Laura Dern) hightail it to New Orleans and Texas...
She does none of these things. In her tight black stretch pants she recklessly sleds down the hill with the baby and feeds him Frosted Flakes when the pot roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks...
Most films offer the viewer one thing at a time to look at, one emotion to feel. A dyna-movie demands more; the eye must search every corner of the film frame for glancing gags. Look closely in the villain's lair in RoboCop 2 and find effigies of his...
So Twin Peaks can be counted a success -- and not just d'estime. The show has proved that original, challenging and idiosyncratic fare can be done for TV, even within rigid network confines, and that people will tune in. Twin Peaks is, in fact, the culmination of a surprisingly fruitful...