“Bowfinger,” August 17, 1999, theater. Sometimes funny, sometimes just sort of dumb Steve Martin-written and acted comedy about an nth-rate director making a film starring Eddie Murphy (sometimes great!) as Kurt Ramsey, a psycho action star. He doesn’t know he’s in the film. The really funny stuff involves “Mind Head” (Scientology) a bogus cult that…
Month: August 1999
October Sky
“October Sky,” August 17, 1999, video. Set in 1957 as Sputnik circles the globe, this well-received sleeper of a historical drama chronicles the real struggle of four young boys from a West Virginia mining town to improve themselves and their chances of escaping the mines by exploring their fascination with rocketry and building their own…