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WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE?

By | August 1998

All bad movies of 1998 step aside, we have the worst film of the year: “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”…

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WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE?

All bad movies of 1998 step aside, we have the worst film of the year: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"! In his follow-up to "Selena," Gregory Nava takes...

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54

Director Mark Christopher's "54" tells a shining part-fact/part-fiction tale of life in the world's most star-studded club of the 1970's. From the closing...

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A MERRY WAR

I took my girlfriend to see this film based on George Orwell's 1936 novel, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying". She thought she was watching a depression era...

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SIMON BIRCH

A lot of people love the John Irving novel, "A Prayer for Owen Meany." Luckily, I haven't read it, so I can't mourn for the atrocities performed on it by...

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THE AVENGERS

Another (following "The Saint") blockbuster butchery of a brilliant 60's BBC agent series that takes science fiction too seriously and throws to the wind...

DIY FILMMAKERS: KARL T. HIRSH AND "GREEN"

[ THE FILM: "GREEN (AKA WHATEVER)" ] ^ 16mm b/w, color, animation. Four slackers in Phoenix explore their internal problems while under the influence of...

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RETURN TO PARADISE

"Return to Paradise" (based on the 1990 French film "Force Majeure") is a complex, yet thought provoking film about three college grads, Sheriff (Vince...

THE WORLD FESTIVAL OF ANIMATED FILMS: 1998

THE MERMAID -- GRAND PRIX ^ * * * * * ^ This beautiful work of animation painted on glass was nominated for an Oscar in 1997. An old monk tells his young...

DIY FILMMAKERS: JEssE PERETZ' "FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES"

Jesse Peretz, the director of the indie flick "First Love, Last Rites", started in music videos doing those hilarious cab driver spots on MTV. He also...

UNCENSORED SUPERMAN

So a new "Superman" movie will likely never be made and perhaps that's a good thing after all. But we can still dream what we would say if we were the man...

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