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Summer Cinema: All Sizzle, No Fizzle 
Weekly Alibi Summer Film Guide. [2]
Devin D. O'Leary
The Little Tugboat That Couldn't
Speed 2: Cruise Control. [3]
Devin D. O'Leary
Dead in the Water 
"Speed 2" sinks; "A Chef in Love" is half-baked. [4]
Noel Murray and Donna Bowman
Peak Performance 
A fine foreign film, 'Prisoner of the Mountain', makes a second Tucson appearance. [5]
Stacey Richter
Stemming the Tide 
Rymer's Angel Baby will grab your heart. [6]
Mary Dickson
The Wight Stuff 
It took 25 years to reach the screen, but the end result of Murray Lerner's Message to Love: The Ise of Wight Festival is that it resurrects a lost moment of rock & roll history. [7]
Raoul Hernandez
Film Reviews
Comprehensive reviews of current films. [8]
Film Clips
Check out Tucson Weekly's capsule reviews packed with links to the hottest movie home pages on the Web. [9]
Videos a Go-Go 
A weekly look at a film genre to enhance your rent 'n' view pleasure. [10]
Jesse Fox Mayshark
Movie Guru
The Movie Guru overcomes acrophobia and reveals his secret fascination for Vertigo. [11]
Coury Turczyn
Videodrome
Slithis & Django. [12]
Scott Phillips
Scanlines
Reviews of Cane Toads, Ed's Next Move, Fist of Legend , and Basquiat. [13]
Short Cuts
Why is Joel Schumacher, Batman and Robin director, upset with local Internet wizard Harry Knowles? [14]
Marjorie Baumgarten
Reel World
Toys...Hollywood style. [15]
Devin D. O'Leary
Arts Afire
Various Chronicle writers look back at films that have helped shape their love of the medium in a treatment of this summer's local revival schedules. [16]
Claiborne K.H. Smith
TV Eye
Our TV columnist thinks twice about whether Cinemax's "Max for Me" personalized viewing program is really the best around. [17]
Margaret Moser
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June 20 - July 1, 1997
hoa, the film section is packed this week! There's definitely
something for everybody here. We've got a rather sarcastic Summer
Movie Preview and multiple negative reviews (click here or here)
of Speed 2: Cruise Control, which appears to be this summer's
Waterworld. But we've also got a detailed evaluation of
Robert Hughes' American Visions series on PBS and two articles
(click here or here) on Message to Love: The Isle of Wight
Festival. The latter is a revealing documentary about a Woodstock-like 1970
concert where such acts as The Who, The Doors and Miles Davis
were perks but the hippies were jerks. From pop culture to high
culture and, in some cases, to low culture, we've got as much
to choose from as any labyrinthine multiplex.
This week's film reviews also include the following:
Our video guides spotlight a number of new and old pictures:
Don't forget to check out our Short Cuts and Reel World sections
for tidbits about movie industry news, and the T.V. Eye column
for a word about what's hot on the tube. (Xena: Warrior Princess
makes the grade, as well it should.)
Talk Back 
If you're one of the few who didn't think Volcano blew, The Lost World
bit, or The Fifth Element was one element too many, here's the forum to
defend your opinion--crazy though it may be.
Curious about a particular director's work? Not
sure what to rent at the video store? Enjoy reading several
contrasting opinions of the same film? This is the place for
you. Hundreds of reviews lie at your fingertips, sortable by
genre, date or director.
Wasting Away
What Blake de Pastino learned from Albuquerque's top water wasters. [06-06-97]
Blake de Pastino
Court of Appeals
Night Falls on Manhattan and other films. [06-06-97]
Noel Murray and Jim Ridley
Con Job
It's a breakthrough in gay moviemaking! [06-13-97]
James DiGiovanna
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