FLICK OF THE WEEK: POOR CASTING DIMS `DAYLIGHTS`
Our Flick of the Week is one of the most eagerly awaited films of the summer, ''The Living Daylights,'' the latest James Bond film, starring the fourth serious actor to...
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FLICK OF WEEK: CLASSIC DISNEY GEM `SNOW WHITE`
Our Flick of the Week is ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,'' which is being reissued on the 50th anniversary of its creation. Seeing the film again, one is impressed...
OSCAR SWATS `THE FLY`
Alas, the spell was not broken. ''I was in bed, with Geena, watching TV,'' Jeff Goldblum said. ''CNN was broadcasting the nominations live, and that`s how I found out. ''At...
THE YEAR OF CAINE
Whether or not you saw the special report on actor Michael Caine last Sunday on ''60 Minutes,'' you might be interested to know that his publicists had been working for...
Gene Siskel’s 1986 review of ‘About Last Night…’
In 1974, long before he was a national figure and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Chicago playwright David Mamet wrote a popular play called "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." It was about...
Gene Siskel’s 1986 review of ‘About Last Night…’
In 1974, long before he was a national figure and a Pulitzer Prize winner, Chicago playwright David Mamet wrote a popular play called "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." It was about...
Tribune archive: ‘Labyrinth’ review
Jim Henson knows what he's doing with his Muppet characters on TV and in the movies. But he's completely at sea when he tries to create more mature entertainment in...
‘Ferris Bueller’ — an off day for fun
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off," set in Chicago, is not the most exciting day a teenager has spent ditching school. But that the film doesn't live up to our anticipation of...
`DESERT HEARTS`: A NEW STORY TOLD IN THE OLD FASHION
The easiest way to test how tender and effective the old-fashioned love-story ''Desert Hearts'' is, is to imagine it as a traditional tale of a man and woman in love,...
FACELIFT, EXPANSION FOR PLITT
Cineplex Odeon Corp., new owner of the Plitt motion picture theater circuit, offered a coming attraction Thursday of a theater construction and refurbishing plan that will add 54 screens and...