Bonnie and Clyde

The gay fantasy of sex divorced from sin is superimposed on a community of Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles

A bleak portrait of what remains of love and romance in a world without hope and without a future

Senseless, directed by Penelope Spheeris, is a gross-out comedy of the school of Eddie Murphy’s Absent Minded Professor, designed to appeal to upwardly mobile blacks. Marlon Wayans stars as Darryl Whitherspoon, a student working several jobs in order to pay his way through college while at the same time sending money home to his single…

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The ultimate in Civil War re-enactments is, alas, much less successful as a movie.

A visual feast designed to make more palatable the movie’s dubious theology.