Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Lake Placid - * 1/2*

Posted on July 16, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Lake Placid is a simple film to sum up: a giant crocodile in Maine. That’s about it. That one lone sentence fragment aptly summarizes the completely ridiculous premise of this comic thriller. It’s not much of a movie, and what … Continue reading →

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Eyes Wide Shut - * * 1/2*

Posted on July 16, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Eyes Wide Shut marks the end of an era. It is not only the career concluding film of the recently deceased director, Stanley Kubrick, but also the end of one of the longest film shoots in history. For two years, … Continue reading →

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The Blair Witch Project - * * * 1/2*

Posted on July 14, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

It’s unexpected. The Blair Witch Project is a horror film with no name stars, little gore, and an even littler budget. And yet, it is the most genuinely scary movie to hit the screens in a long, long time. The … Continue reading →

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Muppets From Space - * *

Posted on July 14, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

The Muppets have seen better days, and never has the muppet candle seemed so dim as in this sixth muppet movie. The first original muppet story since The Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppets From Space is missing a crucial ingredient necessary … Continue reading →

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Arlington Road - * * 1/2*

Posted on July 9, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Arlington Road is a thriller about a college professor (Jeff Bridges) who begins to suspect that his seemingly normal next-door neighbors (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack) are terrorists. The professor must apply his book knowledge when he takes matters into … Continue reading →

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American Pie - * * *

Posted on July 5, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

If any of you have been pining the demise of the teen sex comedy, you need long no more. American Pie returns us to the glory days of Porky’s, Losin’ It and The Last American Virgin, when teens wanted sex … Continue reading →

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Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season - * * 1/2*

Posted on July 2, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Sandy Tung directs this sequel to the family film Shiloh, based on Phyllis Reynolds Naylor’s series of books. Shiloh the beagle returns, now with his new family, Marty Preston (Zachary Browne) and his dad (Michael Moriarty). When Shiloh’s cruel former … Continue reading →

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Summer of Sam - * *

Posted on July 2, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Spike Lee directs this Bronx drama set during the Son of Sam murders. A mob in the Bronx believes a young man (Adrien Brody) is actually the serial killer. John Leguizamo, Anthony LaPaglia, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, John Savage, Bebe … Continue reading →

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Wild Wild West - * 1/2*

Posted on June 30, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

Ah, the Old West…a time filled with dusty gunslingers, dirty scoundrels, rocket powered bicycles, and giant mechanical machines of destruction. Something is wrong here. That something is the remake of the television series, The Wild Wild West (newly rechristened without … Continue reading →

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South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut - * * *

Posted on June 30, 1999 by Madeleine Williams

It was inevitible that the cable cartoon hit South Park would eventually worm its way into theaters. A show stifled even by the minimal censorship of cable TV, South Park was begging for the freedom to be as crude and … Continue reading →

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