Recently skimming through an anthology of film reviews, I came across Pauline Kael's comments regarding director Roger Spottiswoode's third movie, a 1983 jungle warfare thriller called "Under Fire." "Everything is thought out and prepared, but it isn't explicit, it isn't labored, and it certainly isn't overcomposed," Kael wrote.
Bond blasts back in 'Tomorrow'
Would you pay money to watch Bruce Willis play football for the Oakland Raiders? Of course not. So why would anyone get the idea that former football player Howie Long would make a good lead for an action movie is beyond me. But they did, and the result is the dreadful and weakly developed "Firestorm.Weak 'Firestorm' blows itself out
The first glance at the box of the CD-ROM game "Postal" says it all. The title is stamped in big, bold red lettering with simulated bullet holes surrounding it. This is a shame in and of itself. The men and women that sort and deliver the mail around the United States certainly receive a bad rap, even after the rash of incidents that have taken place in the last 10 years. Our postal workers do a fine job.
Return to sender: 'Postal' shoots blanks
01-13-98
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