November 15, 2002 | On a drearily overcast Sunday afternoon 12 years ago, I visited Auschwitz. And for reasons I didn't entirely understand at first, I felt compelled to touch…
September 12, 1996 | Illeana Douglas made an unforgettable impression in her first movie role, but it wasn't her fault. She played the unfortunate young woman in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear…
November 21, 2003 | By assuming the lead role in the absurdly muddled Gothika, Halle Berry may have done more to prove the existence of an “Oscar curse” than any…
January 4, 2002 | According to showbiz legend, Miami Vice came to be after NBC honcho Brandon Tartikoff scribbled a genre-blending high concept on a cocktail napkin: “MTV cops.” It’s easy…
April 2, 2003 | When your mug shot appears as the punchline for an Oscarcast opening monologue, it's usually an indication that your career, along with your life, has taken…
June 9, 2000 | At once dizzyingly chaotic and dismally lackluster, Gone in 60 Seconds is a slam-bang blur of flashy technique and flaunty attitude that goes nowhere fast. Despite…
May 20, 1998 | This ain't no Barney, this ain't no Toho, this ain't no fooling around. Director Roland Emmerich and producor Dean Devlin, the same guys made millions with Independence Day,…
February 5, 1988 | Right at the start of The Glass Menagerie, one of the most lyrical dramas in the American theatrical canon, Tennessee Williams promises an evening of beautiful artifice. But…
April 30, 2004 | A shameless recycling of clichés and conventions that passed their expiration dates more than two decades ago, Godsend limps into theaters this week as an unwelcome…
February 21, 2003 | At its frequent, literally awesome best, Gettysburg - writer-director Ronald F. Maxwell's 1993 Civil War epic based on The Killer Angels, the late Michael Shaara's Pulitzer…