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1995 Stories by Todd Anthony

• Fits of Fury

  published December 28, 1995

  While Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to American audiences, one of his contemporary idols -- Hong Kong noir director John Woo -- is far less... More >>

• The Halls Have Eyes

  published December 28, 1995

  If you took 1978's California Suite, replaced screenwriter Neil Simon and director Herbert Ross with four of Hollywood's hottest young filmmaking... More >>

• Top Ten and Bottom Feeders

  published December 28, 1995

  I hate compiling year-end top-ten movie lists. No, I don't have a Woody Allen-esque objection to the concept of ranking works of art in a... More >>

• Bugged!

  published December 21, 1995

  Early in the afternoon of an unseasonably hot autumn day, an old flatbed truck with wooden side panels and dozens of limp, multicolor fiberglass... More >>

• Woman Overboard!

  published December 21, 1995

  When was the last time you saw a decent pirate movie? In recent years screen buccaneers have had better luck sacking filmmakers' careers than they... More >>

• Fair and Square

  published December 21, 1995

  A young woman named Sabrina Fair, the daughter of the chauffeur for Long Island's obscenely wealthy Larrabee family, misspends much of her youth... More >>

• Sisters Doin' It for Themselves

  published December 21, 1995

  "He loves her but she loves him And he loves somebody else, you just can't win." -- J. Geils Band, "Love Stinks" The leap from... More >>

• State of Gracie

  published December 14, 1995

  When last we checked in with Marcus Silveira ("Kicking Ass and Taking Names," March 2), the Miami-based black-belt holder in Brazilian jujitsu had... More >>

• Those Eyes! That Gun!

  published December 14, 1995

  Sometimes I wish these guys would just fuck and be done with it. When you blow away the cloud of steam generated by the generic cops, robbers, and... More >>

• He Stoops to Conquer

  published December 14, 1995

  Jennifer Montgomery's semiautobiographical Art for Teachers of Children positions itself as a dispassionate, disquietingly original take on... More >>

• Deadbeat Dad

  published December 7, 1995

  In 1991's Father of the Bride, doting suburban white-bread proto-papa George Banks (Steve Martin) went deeply into debt to stage a perfect wedding... More >>

• Italian Connection

  published November 30, 1995

  La Dolce Vita meets the Magic City with the arrival of Cinema Italiano Oggi (Miami's Italian Film Festival). A five-day orgy of new movies,... More >>

• Blood from a Stone

  published November 30, 1995

  Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant was an overwrought but distinctively stylish variation on an overworked cinematic genre -- the corrupt cop movie.... More >>

• Skin Diving

  published November 30, 1995

  As the opening titles for White Man's Burden unscroll, you know right away that you've entered a very different world. White lawn jockeys adorn... More >>

• A Sure Thing

  published November 23, 1995

  You don't want to wager against Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a professional sports gambler whose handicapping prowess is so formidable... More >>

• Good Vibrations

  published November 23, 1995

  Some of the finest movies of the past three years have been documentaries: Hoop Dreams, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, and... More >>

• Memo to James Bond

  published November 23, 1995

  Memo to James Bond To: James Bond From: Todd Anthony Re: GoldenEye Welcome to the Nineties, 007. I thought you were... More >>

• Northern Exposure

  published November 23, 1995

  Just what the world needs -- another girl-meets-girl movie. The chicks-who-dig-chicks love story minigenre has pretty much played itself... More >>

• Pocket Veto

  published November 23, 1995

  Horny commanders-in-chief are nothing new. Nor is the sight of Michael Douglas playing a WASPy Everyman whose dick gets him into trouble. However,... More >>

• A Case of Date Rape

  published November 16, 1995

  "It's a date-rape movie," declares first-time filmmaker Douglas Tirola. The 27-year-old writer-director of A Reason to Believe doesn't beat around... More >>

• Pretty Poison

  published November 16, 1995

  Is the world ready for "a heterosexual film by Gregg Araki," as the twentysomething writer-director-editor-producer's new project, The Doom... More >>

• The Young and the Restless

  published November 9, 1995

  Movies about attractive twentysomethings sitting around talking about themselves have been all the rage lately. You could take everything that... More >>

• That's the Ticket

  published November 2, 1995

  Some nights you get lucky. Writer-director John Rubino's debut film, Lotto Land, sneaked into town as quietly as a balsero. I attended the preview... More >>

• Festival Seating

  published November 2, 1995

  I live in South Miami. The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival has always bugged me because it presents a nasty dilemma: I love movies,... More >>

• On the Good Ship Jackpot

  published October 26, 1995

  Omar Hernandez watches paternally as the regular crowd shuffles into the card room behind the Copacabana Lounge. Each Thursday the players arrive... More >>