Sexy Live Highway to despair
BUFFALO 66 (MA) Nova Cinemas THE PLOT: After serving five years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, a young man heads home with a kidnapped, imitation wife.BILLY Brown walks out of prison after five years into a bleak, snow-swept road. He takes the last bus into town and, in need of a lavatory, races into a dancing school. In a bizarre encounter he kidnaps cute, leggy, sexy, live kewpie-doll Layla (Christina Ricci) and forces her to pretend she is...
Sexy Live `GREEDY' COMMITS A MULTITUDE OF SINS
`You're still a funny kid-not as cute as you used to be," Kirk Douglas tells Michael J. Fox in "Greedy."Fair enough, though Fox retains much of the charm that launched him from small- to big-screen stardom nine years ago with "Back to the Future." He remains a naturally likable actor who embodies the playful struggle between the kid who wants to get away with something and the grown-up who knows better.The problem...
Sexy Live `Loot' is still a hoot
REVIEW: City Theater's brisk staging is worth the price of admission-and more.
For Joe Orton, nothing was sacred. During the '60s, the British playwright reveled in puncturing England's sacred cows -- the kind of humor Benny Hill and Monty Python would bring to British television a few years later, but a few shades darker. "Loot" is his seminal work, a wickedly cynical take on greed, religious hypocrisy, police corruption and lust that has grown only funnier in the 34 years since it was first staged.In a brisk staging...
Sexy Live DOGGED DAYS
AMORES PERROS (Life's a Bitch) (MA) STARS Gael Garcia Bernal, Emilio Echevarria, Goya Toledo SHOWING At cinemas from Thursday RATING THE first thing to say about Amores Perros, is that emotional dog owners should never see it.The second thing to say is that it's great to finally see a film from Mexico, set in Mexico City, that tells us something about just a handful of the 20 million people who live there.It is, most of all, a tragically...