Stephen Amidon worked as a film critic in London for most of the 1990′s, first for The Financial Times and then for The Sunday Times. Here are many of his film reviews, with a few essays, film related book reviews and obituaries thrown in for good measure.
Huxley In Hollywood – December 9, 1989
The Two Jakes; Point Break; K2; Hangin’with the Homeboys; Switch; AMA – November 19 , 1991
Europa, Europa; The Dark Wind; Memoirs of an Invisible Man; Scorchers – May 14, 1992
The Lover, Paradise; Autobus; Homework; Stone Cold – June 18, 1992
Unforgiven; The Hours and Times; A League of Their Own – September 17, 1992
Sapphic Designs – December 6, 1992
Home Alone 2; Into the West; Eleyna; Traces of Red – December 10, 1992
Selznick Biography – February 13, 1993
The Abyss: Special Edition; Nowhere to Run; Passenger 57; I was on Mars – May 20, 1993
Storyville; Tango; Bambi – July 22, 1993
Passionfish; Sliver; The Voyage; Eraserhead – September 2, 1993
The Hawk; Bound and Gagged; Last Year at Marienbad; Tale of the Fox – - December 2, 1993
Woody Allen Reader – February 6, 1994
Mamet on Screenwriting – June 5, 1994
North; The Sandlot Kids; Paris, France; Boiling Point; Necronomicon; Woodstock – July 28, 1994
When a Man Loves a Woman; The Slingshot – September 1, 1994
Lindsay Anderson Obituary – September 1, 1994
Clear and Present Danger; Dazed and Confused; Smoking / No Smoking; Peeping Tom – September 15, 1994
Burt Lancaster Obituary – Financial Times, October 22, 1994
Junior; Above the Rim; The Punk & the Princess; That’s III – Financial Times, December 8, 1994
Robert Bolt Obituary – February 23, 1995
Legends of the Fall; Captives; Exoticia; Eyes Without a Face; Thin Ice- April 27, 1995
Before Sunrise – April 23, 1995
Little Odessa; Clerks; Milk Money; Id; The Steal – May 4, 1995
Richie Rich; Angels; A Feast at Midnight; The Sexual Life of Belgians;- May 25, 1995
How to Make a Merchant Ivory Film – June 4, 1995
Hollywood and Comic Books – June 18, 1995
The Big Sleep – August 3, 1995
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, but Came Down a Mountain; Free Willy 2 – August 3, 1995
The Usual Suspects – August 27, 1995
Safe Passage – August 27, 1995
Louis Malle Obituary – November 27, 1995
The Horseman on the Roof – January 7, 1996
Books and Film – January 21, 1996
Nixon; Biopics – March 3, 1996
Thin Line Between Love and Hate – June 30, 1996
Down Periscope – June 30, 1996
Movie Shows on British Television – January 12, 1997
The English Patient – January 26, 1997
In and Out – February 15, 1998
The Postman – February 22, 1998
