Dave Kehr

Fads may come and go, but the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-at least in their cinematic incarnation-deserve to be around for a long time. After last year`s initial Turtles film went...

Decades after the anti-communist hysteria of the early 1950s, the blacklist remains the most traumatic episode in Hollywood`s past, the one moment when the doors of the dream factory opened...

John Badham`s ''The Hard Way'' is a comic thriller that takes as its theme the invasion of Hollywood fantasy by hard-edged reality, yet the movie itself successfully deflects even the...

In its third edition, the Film Center of the Art Institute`s annual survey of Hong Kong cinema, ''Hong Kong Over the Edge,'' continues to demonstrate the extraordinary energy and imagination...

Like most of Oliver Stone`s work, ''The Doors'' is camp of a fairly high order, which means that it will probably be able to pass as straight drama for a...

On paper, it must have looked like the casting coup of the year: Bette Midler and Woody Allen, together again for the first time. Yet, as registered in the small,...

''Sleeping With the Enemy'' offers the familiar story of a beautiful young woman in mortal danger from a lover-the kiss me/kill me formula that has been a pretty sure commercial...

Michael Lehmann`s 1989 ''Heathers'' had the benefit of surprise: There were relatively few zany comedies around that year about maladjusted high school kids murdering their more popular peers. Unfortunately, Lehmann`s...

The novels of Jim Thompson-largely paperback originals, published between the late 1930s and the early 1960s-represent one of the most extreme visions in American literature. More noir than Thompson you...

From his teenage ''Romeo and Juliet'' and Burton-Taylor ''Taming of the Shrew'' in the 1960s, through his gooey Brooke Shields and Ricky Schroder vehicles (''Endless Love,'' ''The Champ'') of the...