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1999 Stories by Hal Hinson

• Calling Mount Olympus

  published August 26, 1999

  What is it they say -- that even a flea can reach Mount Olympus riding in Pegasus' mane? Well, in the case of the new Albert Brooks comedy... More >>

• A Lead in Spite of Himself

  published August 12, 1999

  Filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin), the lead character in the intermittently funny Hollywood satire Bowfinger, has a dream.... More >>

• Loony Men

  published August 5, 1999

  In the highly competitive, dog-eat-dog world of the modern-day superhero in Mystery Men, the members of the group that eventually... More >>

• TCA II

  published August 5, 1999

  One of our leading men's fashion magazines runs a column every month titled "What Were We Thinking?" to present a ludicrous photograph of a famous... More >>

• There Goes the Bride

  published July 29, 1999

  Runaway Bride, the long-anticipated reunion of Pretty Woman stars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, isn't a sequel, but it... More >>

• The Enemy Is Us

  published July 17, 1999

  Arlington Road. Directed by Mark Pellington. Screenplay by Ehren Kruger. Starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis. More >>

• Fear and Desire

  published July 16, 1999

  Eyes Wide Shut. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by a novella by Arthur Schnitzler.... More >>

• Fear and Desire

  published July 15, 1999

  Eyes Wide Shut. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, from a screenplay by Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by a novella by Arthur Schnitzler.... More >>

• The Enemy Is Us

  published July 8, 1999

  Do you feel snug and secure in your cozy suburban life? Are you happy in your picture-perfect home, with your carefully manicured lawn, your kids,... More >>

• Daddy Love

  published June 24, 1999

  The new Adam Sandler comedy, Big Daddy, isn't just the funniest movie of the summer, it's also the most improbable feel-good movie of the season.... More >>

• Last Tango in Rome

  published June 17, 1999

  Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged is a movie of enthralling visual poetry. Set almost entirely inside a ravishing Roman villa, it is a love story... More >>

• Power Points

  published June 3, 1999

  In an early scene in Instinct, released by Touchstone, a division of Disney's Buena Vista Pictures, we're told that a brilliant primatologist... More >>

• A Little Bit of Heaven

  published June 3, 1999

  Joy isn't a word that often comes to mind when thinking about the films of director Wim Wenders. But infectious, intoxicating joy is the emotion... More >>

• The Great Caper Collapse

  published April 29, 1999

  Sean Connery has always been a terse, minimalist actor, spitting out his lines in tight bursts of Scottish brogue. But in Entrapment, the kingly... More >>

• Murphy's So-Called Life

  published April 15, 1999

  Imagine, if you will, one of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's classic road movies that never leaves the terminal, and you have pretty much described... More >>