MUSIC At the End, A Miss by Miles Although both rely on improvisation and solos, jazz and rap have never found much common ground. The great jazz trumpeter MILES DAVIS was in a recording studio trying...

Buffy (Swanson) and her vacuous valley-girl pals are, like, rilly irritating: they have a keen fashion sense and an imaginative line in vapid chat, but they're

Read the Empire Movie review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Enjoyable, but now basically a footnote to the TV...

The age of innocence in teenage exploitation films produced such classics as ”High School Confidential,” ”I Was a Teenage Frankenstein” and ”Hot Rods to Hell.”But now, like so many other aspects of American cultural life, the teenpic has entered a period of fin-de-siecle decadence, characterized by campiness, self-consciousness and a condescending attitude toward the ticket- […]

PG-13 • 1 hour 26 min • 1992

Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is a bloodless comic resurrection of the undead that goes serious just when it should get wild and woolly. The marginal buoyancy of the opening reels quickly disappears from this threadbare (reportedly only $ 7 million) production, which is more effective as a sendup of Valley girls than as a clever take on bloodsuckers.

If the undead invaded a Southern California high school, would anybody notice?