Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studio work, Tricky compresses ideas into his songs, but the live venue allowed his songs to stretch out, achieving blinding power through repetition. A nameless female singer performed the roles played on record by Martina Topley-Bird (Tricky's occasional girlfriend and frequent collaborator), while British rapper Mad Dog joined Tricky for a few tracks from Juxtapose...
There may be another meeting or two, then Wilford hits the showers and makes a mad dash to catch the last lemon-grilled chicken breast at dinner by 7:15. If the entire team is held up, Harvard Dining Services keeps Annenberg Hall open until about...
...charge the characters get from experiencing real life in Malkovich's brain. The camera-eye gimmick goes on just long enough that we don't think that we'll really get to see John Malkovich himself, until all of a sudden he enters as another insane player in this mad roundelay. He all but overwhelms the movie with the question mark of his celebrity and the eerie charisma in his way of speaking. So fierce in Dangerous Liaisons, so intense in In the Line of Fire, and so bold on stage, he has his share of glory and groupies (which...
Take a world-weary small town sheriff, add a zoologist who wears tank tops and looks like an Herbal Essence ad, one mad scientist and a few trillion mean, carnivorous bats, and you have the perfect Halloween smash hit on your hands. It's a guaranteed success. Right? At least that's what the producers of Destination Films appear to have believed when they made Bats, their latest piece of brain candy. But the singular experience that is Bats cannot be described this easily...
...People loved the novel because of its tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic candor and because of its simple acknowledgement of a world going mad. It was a wacky satire that sparred with issues of societal conformity and rampant consumerism. The movie takes the consumerism slant and clubs you over the head with it repeatedly--so repeatedly, in fact, that you lose sight of its importance. It takes the essential plot elements of the novel and blurs them together to create two hours of incoherent nonsense. In short, director Alan Rudolph's vision of Vonnegut's cynical tale boasts all the clarity...