By NYO Staff 2/08/99 12:00am

Mel Gibson’s Revenge … Working Mom As Circus Freak

Mel Gibson’s Revenge

Violence as entertainment? I’m probably not the one to say this, given my aversion to violent films, but Payback entertained me royally.

This horrifyingly bloody update of John Boorman’s classic 1967 film noir Point Blank starring Lee Marvin is so relentlessly violent it can produce nausea, but it’s a Mel Gibson Read More

By NYO Staff 2/08/99 12:00am

A Delicate Man and Wife Air Their Dirty Fantasies

Anne Fontaine’s Dry Cleaning , from a screenplay by Gilles Taurand and Ms. Fontaine, based on an original idea by Ms. Fontaine and Claude Arnaud, strains to make the mechanized delicacy of dry cleaning a metaphor for the confusedly kinky sexual awakening of a hitherto repressed provincial French couple whose whole life seems to be Read More