October 11, 2002 |  Let's face it: We live in an age when real-life events frequently are far more fantastically absurd or epochally horrific than anything an author or filmmaker…

October 11, 2002 | At one point in Comedian, a funny and fascinating documentary about a seriously demanding profession, Jerry Seinfeld appears on The David Letterman Show to tell a…

July 11, 1997 | Given the abundance of insubstantial sound and fury at the multiplexes during this summer movie season, it's refreshing to find something as ambitious as Contact. Based on the…

April 2, 1999 | Even in his finest efforts as a filmmaker, Robert Altman often comes across as an acerbic cynic who views his characters -- and, to a large degree,…

October 12, 2001 | Ever hear about the guy who liked to pummel his head with a sledgehammer, because it felt so good when he stopped? Maybe the same fellow would appreciate…

May 31, 2002 | It's déjà vu all over again on megaplex screens this weekend. In Undercover Brother, director Malcolm D. Lee pays affectionately satirical tribute to '70s blaxploitation flicks. Meanwhile,…

December 10, 1999 | Even if you know nothing about the historical facts that support its fanciful fictions, Tim Robbins’ Cradle Will Rock crackles with more than enough energy and immediacy to…

September 28, 2001 | According to the production notes for Zoolander, director, star and co-screenwriter Ben Stiller based his movie “on a 1996 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards character he co-created with MTV…

April 15, 2005 | You don’t have to be a rabid hoops fanatic – heck, you don’t even have to know the difference between slam dunking and slam dancing – to…

July 12, 2002  |  Here's the pitch: Russian émigrés endure romantic and financial upheavals after arriving in Israel just before the start of the 1991 Gulf War. Sounds like a…