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M.V. Moorhead

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Car-car-carried Away

Want a(nother) romanticized speed racer? Go see The Fast and the Furious

By M.V. Moorhead
Jun 21, 2001

If internal combustion ever becomes obsolete -- that is, if the auto industry ever allows internal combustion to become obsolete -- whatever will movies do for heart-stopping drama? Hoof beats are dramatic, and the chug of a steam engine is suspenseful, but the roar of a gasoline-powered vehicle stirs the...
Mexican Jumping Scenes

Oh for the good old mythic cowboy life!

By M.V. Moorhead
Dec 28, 2000

It's where Walter Huston found paradise at the end of The Treasure of Sierra Madre, where the murdering lovers Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw rode into the sunset at the end of The Getaway, and where Thelma and Louise were headed when they ended up at the Grand Canyon. There...
Triumph of De Vil

Young pups learn new tricks as sequel 102 Dalmatians hits the spots

By M.V. Moorhead
Nov 30, 2000

In 102 Dalmatians, a new brood of puppies is born, one of which, Oddball, doesn't develop spots. The resulting feelings of inadequacy are such that the poor thing runs away from home and hides in a cave, gets bitten by a bat, and turns into a slavering mad dog. Cruella...
Deranged in the Mesozoic

Dinosaur

By M.V. Moorhead
May 18, 2000

Dinosaurs used to be cool. In 1969 if you had asked me what was the best movie ever made, the answer would likely have been The Valley of Gwangi, in which a group of cowboys in the Mexican desert find a gully full of leftover dinosaurs, animated by Ray Harryhausen,...
The Wrath of Khan

East Is East

By M.V. Moorhead
May 4, 2000

Despite the titleEast Is East, the big message of this flavorful domestic memoir is really that West is West. In the tug of war between East and West for a soul, East, the film suggests, may hold out for a while through a combination of nostalgia, pride, national resentment, and...

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