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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the reviews, you may think that Gremlins 2: The New Batch is about a cute creature who battles his evil brethren to save Manhattan. You may read that RoboCop 2 is about a police officer, half man, half machine, who battles his evil robot twin to save Detroit. You may have heard that Total Recall is about Arnold Schwarzenegger trying to reclaim his memory and save Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revenge of The Dyna-Movies | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...conspiracy anytime two Congressmen voice similar criticisms of him. His speeches bristle with darts for "liberal tax-and-spend Democrats" who want to cripple the military while coddling drug pushers and flag burners. This is the Bush that Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau calls Skippy, the gentleman President's "evil twin," who pops up whenever harsh partisanship is deemed necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Faces of George Bush | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...Twin Peaks Summit. Columnist Mary McGrory wrote that the TV show, "wrapped in mists and mystery," provided the perfect moniker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Name That Summit | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...winds of political humanism, none of the glasnost movies stood a chance against Wild at Heart, a big movie from a hot American director, rushed from the lab to Cannes. The place was tense with anticipation. Early in the festival, Lyncholepts had lined up to see new episodes of Twin Peaks screened at the American pavilion. A few U.S. critics proudly brandished their foreign videocassettes of the show's pilot, for which Lynch shot a tell-whodunit climax not aired in the States. Europeans pummeled Americans for details of the series, which will begin airing overseas in the fall. Wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unlaced And Weird on Top | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...untied shoelace answered questions with the blissed-out graciousness of an Eagle Scout from Mars. Told by one reporter that his films are rife with graphic visions of violence, he stared benignly and replied, "I have even worse." Asked about the similarities in cast and tone between Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, he said, "The main thing they have in common is wood." Oh. Any more questions? As Sailor says to Lula, so may moviegoers say of the new king of Cannes: "The way your head works is God's own private mystery." But when Wild at Heart opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unlaced And Weird on Top | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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