November 28, 2002 | You could walk into any Blockbuster store in America, randomly select any made-for-video action flick that's gathering dust on a back shelf - and chances are…

September 27, 1996 | During the opening minutes of  Extreme Measures,  we find Hugh Grant cast as Dr. Guy Luthan, a British-born doctor hard at work in the emergency room of…

March 17, 2001 | In preparation for his latest comeback vehicle, the aptly titled Exit Wounds, action star Steven Seagal clipped his ponytail, shed several excess pounds and, apparently, worked…

August 8, 1996 | Snake Plissken is back, and he's still pissed. This singularly surly antihero first appeared in Escape from New York, John Carpenter's 1981 cult classic. Still a popular…

April 19, 2002 | Most mainstream movies, even most hugely entertaining ones, are like wallpaper: They don't require much effort to fully appreciate, because what you see is what you…

March 17, 2000 |  Your heart may start to sink when you read the words “based on a true story” – a phrase that usually portends the moral uplift and…

April 27, 2001  |  In Driven , a furiously flashy and thunderously loud movie about personal and professional upheavals on the Championship Auto Racing Team circuit, Sylvester Stallone makes yet another…

January 18, 1996 | Very early in a marathon battle with undead predators, a clash that takes up most of the second half of From Dusk Till Dawn, a flustered anti-hero…

November 22, 2002 | Be forewarned: The Emperor’s Club takes a defiantly severe if not absolutist view of ethical rigor (good), moral relativism (not so good) and ends-justifies-means compromise (very, very bad).…

May 7, 1999  |  For a movie that has been bumping around the international festival circuit for more than two years, The Empty Mirror seems remarkably fresh and, alas, compellingly…