Florid, gaudy, tricksy, anything-for-attention neo-noir about a speed freak and stool pigeon who in his former life was a blissfully married blues trumpeter. "Keep your eyes open," he advises us straightaway in voice-over. "Nothing is as it seems." Just as good a reason to keep them shut. Val Kilmer, Vincent …
A man afraid of commitment suspects that his current girlfriend is the serial spouse-killer he has read about in the Weekly World News. Apart from his besetting phobia, the protagonist is gravely ill-defined: it's hard to reconcile his apparent wit and charm with his professional self as a throwback beat …
Spike Lee takes a wrong-end-of-the-telescope view of the Son-of-Sam murder spree during a New York City heat wave in 1977: the events in little. (In his introductory and closing remarks, newspaperman Jimmy Breslin witlessly parrots the catch phrase of TV's Naked City: "There are eight million stories in the Naked …
Steve Buscemi's debut as a writer and director, an almost shrinkingly modest independent film about and around the clientele of a Long Island neighborhood watering hole, a shades-of-gray corner building with a spindly sapling planted in the sidewalk out front. In his directing hat, he is meticulously observant of the …
Fifth Avenue psychiatrist, all hot and bothered from the tales of bondage of a female patient, unknowingly strikes up an affair with the patient's ex-boyfriend: "You just may be the gentlest man I've ever met." But could he also be the bondage man? Erotic thriller is mostly talk, and all …
A womanless household -- the Winters family -- composed of two strapping boys and a morose widower. Tepid domestic drama with warm-blooded performances from Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber, Allison Janney, Michelle Monaghan. Some amusing human observation fights through the pallid image and New Age-y music. E.g., after fielding …