From Reese Witherspoon as Election ‘s high school overachiever from hell to the Blair Witch bully who sends her sniveling cohorts to their doom to Nancy Marchand’s Mafia hit mom on The Sopranos , have there ever been so many nasty, conniving, ball-busting females in leading roles? Or so many whimpering men on the run? Read More
Sam Mendes’ American Beauty , from a screenplay by Alan Ball, takes the American suburban, middle-class midlife crisis to a spectacular new dimension of dysfunction-sexual, psychological, professional and sociological. As the latest mainstream movie symptom of our premillennial malaise, American Beauty is so brilliantly acted, written, directed and visualized that for all its despondency and Read More
Wake Bening! She’s Bombed
Written and directed by quirky Neil Jordan ( The Butcher Boy ) and starring the mesmerizing Annette Bening (I wonder if Warren Beatty really deserves her), In Dreams filled me with so much anticipation, I couldn’t imagine a better way to get 1999 off to a smashing start. Now that I’ve Read More
