Dave Kehr

At first glance, ''Penn and Teller Get Killed'' seems to confirm the mysterious decline of director Arthur Penn. It isn`t easy to accept one of the medium`s major figures of...

According to Variety, the show-business newspaper, these were the top rental films of the `80s in the U.S. and Canada as of Jan. 11, 1989 (rentals being the portion of...

''The Fabulous Baker Boys,'' a first feature directed and written by Steve Kloves, occupies an odd space somewhere between the dreamy noir romance of the 1940s and the self-conscious relationship...

''Old Gringo'' is a stillborn epic, a lavish film that means to mix history, politics and romance but comes out a coagulated lump. It`s the first Hollywood effort of Argentine...

For admirers of the American action film-and everyone should be-one of the big disappointments of the 1980s has been director Walter Hill`s failure to find a project worthy of his...

Why is it that movies seem determined to make apartheid part of the White Man`s Burden? In such films as ''Cry Freedom,'' ''A World Apart'' and even the pulpy ''Lethal...

As paranoid thrillers go, ''The Package'' manages to commit both of the genre`s primary sins. It`s at once nearly incomprehensible and totally predictable. At the center of ''The Package'' is...

It seems that Brian DePalma, after his close brush with Oscar for his direction of ''The Untouchables,'' has caught a bad case of Academy Award fever. His ''Casualties of War''...

From its opening sequence-a grave, funny monologue on the worldwide garbage control problem, delivered by a shy, pretty woman named Ann (Andie MacDowell)-''sex, lies, and videotape'' places its spectator in...

The young Australian comic who calls himself Yahoo Serious has identified a significant gap in the movie marketplace. He realizes that there are no skilled physical comedians on the current...