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QUEEN OF HEARTS. On a next-to-nothing budget, this criminally pleasurable panorama depicts a teeming gallery of Italians in postwar London. Funny, ambitious and a mite too long, Queen of Hearts laces pearls on a shoestring.
After graduating from Morehouse in 1979, Lee enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In his first year there, he had the temerity to parody D.W. Griffith's classic The Birth of a Nation in a 20- minute student film that took the great director to...
The claim was so spectacular that it was difficult to believe. News reports suggested that scientists might have achieved the world's first controlled, energy-yielding nuclear-fusion reaction -- a Holy Grail of physics for nearly 40 years. Moreover, the event had not occurred in one of the great national...
In the past two Nightmares the tone has turned more facetious, the special effects toward the shoestring spectacular. Freddy now delivers double entendres like a James Bond boogeyman and devises custom-made tortures like the wardens of Room 101 in 1984. But he still represents the thing teens love to...
Ever since VCRs began to catch on, industry gurus have predicted an explosion of fare specially made for the home-video market. The explosion has arrived, in quantity if not in quality. No one knows how many nonmovie tapes have been released, but estimates hover between 7,000 and 10...