Tribune archive: ‘Curly Sue’ is Hughes’ ‘Homeless Together’
Our Flick of the Week is "Curly Sue," the latest writing-directing effort from John Hughes, who has been one of the most prolific filmmakers of the last decade-he`s contributed to...
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SUBTLETY DRIVES HOME `HOMEBOYS` MESSAGE
By far the best of this year`s run of ethnic independent films, ''Hangin` With the Homeboys'' transcends its drive-in title to become a compelling Cassavetes-like study of male friendship. Directed...
Read Gene Siskel’s 2-star ‘Silence of the Lambs’ review
Our Flick of the Week is the highly touted horror film "The Silence of the Lambs," which has been billed as one of the most frightening, depraved films ever made....
`ROGER & ME` MAKES POINT ABOUT THE COMMON MAN
Our Flick of the Week is Michael Moore`s wickedly funny and disarmingly angry documentary ''Roger & Me,'' which rails against the insensitivity of Corporate America while laughing at the folly...
UPROOTED MAN BEARS SAD SIGNIFICANCE IN `ENEMIES`
Our Flick of the Week is Paul Mazursky`s ''Enemies, A Love Story,'' based on the Isaac Bashevis Singer novel about a Polish-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who winds up in...
`WAR OF ROSES` ENGAGES A SYMPATHETIC AUDIENCE
Our Flick of the Week is Danny DeVito`s ''The War of the Roses,'' the divorce melodrama that recently received this critic`s most sincere form of praise-a second viewing, this time...
CRUISE REBORN AS ACTOR IN `BORN ON THE FOURTH`
Our Flick of the Week is Oliver Stone`s ''Born on the Fourth of July,'' a gritty realization of the true journey of gung-ho Marine Ron Kovic into Vietnam and back...
WAITING TO BE `BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY`
Writer-director Oliver Stone`s battle to bring ''Born on the Fourth of July'' to the big screen lasted 11 years. The Vietnam drama finally opens Wednesday with Tom Cruise in the...
DE NIRO, PENN DELIGHTFUL DUO IN `WE`RE NO ANGELS`
Our Flick of the Week is the thoroughly entertaining, hard-boiled comedy ''We`re No Angels,'' featuring the tasty pairing of Robert De Niro and Sean Penn as a couple of convicts...
BLEAK, COMIC VENGEANCE SPARKS `WAR OF THE ROSES`
Our Flick of the Week is ''The War of the Roses,'' an impressive directing job by Danny DeVito of a black comedy about the pains of marriage and sometimes even...