December 20, 2002 | This week’s Truth in Advertising award goes to Two Weeks Notice, an exceptionally engaging romantic comedy that is being sold with an attractive rendering of Sandra Bullock…
September 20, 2002 | If you’re the type of moviegoer who’s always complaining that “they sure don’t make them like they used to,” take a gander at The Four Feathers…
July 17, 2002 | In the pantheon of tongue-in-cheeky scary movies, Ellroy Elkayem's Eight-Legged Freaks ranks somewhere between Tremors (1990), the crackpot classic about giant worms with only one degree…
July 17, 2002 | In the pantheon of tongue-in-cheeky scary movies, Ellroy Elkayem's Eight-Legged Freaks ranks somewhere between Tremors (1990), the crackpot classic about giant worms with only one degree…
February 26, 1999 | Late in Joel Schumacher's 8mm, the story of an accidental tourist in the lower circles of hell, there is a moment when private eye Tom Welles (Nicolas…
April 19, 2002 | Fabian Bielinsky's Nine Queens is a fleet and frisky movie about con artists – and, by extension, con artistry – so I don't want to tell…
September 13, 2000 | Almost Famous is the kind of idiosyncratic and deeply personal project that usually gets green-lit by a major studio only after a filmmaker scores with a…
November 5, 1999 | At a time when the freakish success of The Blair Witch Project may encourage even more would-be filmmakers to borrow funding from friends and max out…
April 11, 2003 | The mere sight of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson on the same movie poster is enough to make most people smile. So a full-length feature pairing…
January 25, 1996 | Given the long and not always glorious tradition of death-row melodramas, not to mention the unabashed and frequently expressed liberalism of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon,…