November 12, 1999 | Natalie Portman certainly had her hands full with Darth Maul and other intergalactic bad guys in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. But the…
June 26, 1992 | In the view of filmmaker Peter Cohen, writer and director of The Architecture of Doom, the terrible phenomenon of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi nightmare must be…
July 6, 1998 | Armageddon is the second and presumably last of the summer blockbusters about a possible collision between Earth and a giant hunk of rock. Much like its predecessor,…
January 19, 2005 | It is a dark and snowy night. New Year’s Eve, to be precise. At Precinct 13, a gone-to-seed police station in the wilds of Detroit, Sgt. Jake…
June 8, 2001 | The thin line between boisterous fun and games and bombastic sound and fury is repeatedly crossed, and frequently smudged, during Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the latest…
July 26, 2002 | That insistent scratching noise you hear throughout Austin Powers in Goldmember is the sound of filmmakers scraping the very bottom of the barrel. Some of the…
October 4, 2002 | With all the cool detachment of a research scientist preparing a monograph for his peers, Paul Schrader takes a rigorously nonjudgmental view at the untidy life…
October 19, 1990 | Sam Krichinsky arrives in America in 1914, and makes it to Baltimore just in time for the Fourth of July. Dazzled by the celebratory bursts of fireworks,…
August 14, 1998 | Maybe you feared something dreadful was forthcoming when you heard that Warner Bros. would not preview The Avengers in time for opening-day reviews. If so, here’s more…