Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious problem with this film is its lack of real dynamism. "Heaven," according to the Talking Heads, "is a place where nothing ever happens;" so Agnes of God is quite close to paradise. Though the film is structured like a psychological detective story, nothing is really detected about the crime. And what is detected about the characters is strictly expository; it doesn't lead to any changes or resolutions...
...street life is marginally more persuasive in NBC's Hell Town, in which Robert Blake plays a convict-turned-priest in a ghetto neighborhood of East Los Angeles. Like Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven, which it will follow on Wednesday nights, the program is unabashedly upbeat and sentimental. Nevertheless, Blake's righteous fervor and the campy, 1950's-style opening credits (the title is actually filled with flames) give the show some tabloid...
...DRAGON, a suspense-action film starring brat packer Mickey Rourke as a hard-nosed New York detective out to expose the crooked dealings of the Chinese mafia, marks Director Michael Cimino's wobbly return to the silver screen after his cinematic catastrophe of 1982, the much-heralded Heaven's Gate. In a vain attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass of celluloid which might...
...next 25 years, they all kept getting better. "We wrote cartoons for grownups, that was the secret," said Jones' ace story man Michael Maltese in a 1971 interview. And they could behave "almost like children, making absolute idiots of ourselves. An outsider would see us and say, 'Well, for heaven's sake! Grown men!' But we understood...
...earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, has made $3 million in home video, twice as much as it earned in two abortive theatrical releases...