Word: weirdos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sooner has this crossed my screen than Reikert writes again, asking me to hold on to his first E-mail. "I don't mean to sound like a weirdo," he says. "I'm just trying to prove certain discrepancies, and I seem to have been locked out of my computer...
...Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film best appreciated as an exercise in--shall we say it?--Primal Gere...
...bare their souls in the five flicks included in the festival all have particular, frequently opaque, obsessions. Rather than plot or acting, "Krazy Teens USA" makes the best use of its own fascination with the culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times and with such...
When Tank Girl went Hollywood, some compromises were necessary. But director Rachel Talalay, who produced "Cry Baby" and "Hairspray" for darling weirdo John Waters, and sharpened her directorial talons with the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, energetically faces the challenge of fleshing out "Tank Girl...
...telephone, an image on a TV screen, a remote figure being hustled down corridors and into limousines. And this documentary by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus becomes less a group portrait of a campaign team in action and more a character study of the candidate's designated weirdo. But that's all right; Carville is a terrific character. If this were fiction instead of cinema verite, Tommy Lee Jones would play the part...