Flesh+Blood
In 1501, the daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) of a nobleman ends up with a rowdy group of mercenaries, led by Martin (Rutger Hauer), whom she tries to manipulate. Paul Verhoeven’s…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Empty-headed high-school cheerleader Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson) learns that it is part of her destiny to slay vampires. Five years after this horror-comedy, writer Joss Whedon would create a superior…
Blade Runner: In Search of Emotions
Photo: Warner When I first saw this classic science fiction flick, I was thoroughly unimpressed. It looked great, but the story and action were so forgettable that I refused to…
Batman Begins: A Very Dark Knight
Christian Bale. Photo: Warner As it turned out, the definitive adaptation of “Batman” was not made in 1989. The Tim Burton movie showed a Caped Crusader quite different from the…