More than the dozens
Toasts, taunts and tall tales from behind bars reveal the roots of rap….
Freak that bunny down
Florida’s Rabbit In The Moon bring area-sized spectacle to the Detroit party underground…
Blade
Wesley Snipes, have a talk with your agent, please. We know how much you love your action movies, but you deserve better. To be fair, this flick isn’t half bad, even though the premise involves vampires, an invitation to all sorts of dreadful romantic melodrama and gothic nonsense. Happily, The Crow and Anne Rice are…
ROCK RAP
For the past ten years or so, area rapper Kid Rock has been, in this order: a Beastie-inspired foul-mouthed delinquent, grunge-dabbling rocker, sometime bar-band sideman and finally a turntable-inspired songwriter. It’s no small feat that there’s a bit of each here on his rambling, impressive Atlantic debut, Devil Without A Cause. Detroit fans will notice…
Next Stop Wonderland
It may sound magical, but Next Stop Wonderland is prosaic at best. The title refers to the last station of the blue line on Boston’s subway system. Even though the geography’s important (there’s a stop for the aquarium and a connector to the airport, two important destinations for the characters), the color serves as an…
The Disenchanted
Writer-director Benoit Jacquot has made 10 feature films since 1975. Some consider him to be an heir to the Truffaut wing of early ’60s French new wave, someone who combines an offhanded approach with an abiding compassion for his central characters. But he remained little known in the U.S. until the release of his 1995…
Slums of Beverly Hills
For her debut film, the funny and wise Slums of Beverly Hills, writer-director Tamara Jenkins has created a coming-of-age film that’s truly about innocence and experience: the burdens and satisfaction that come with knowing. Like other films about the transformative events that shape a person, Slums of Beverly Hills deals with the complex nature of…
