December 8, 2000 | In the rarified genre of movies based on board games, Dungeons and Dragons distinguishes itself by being much funnier than Clue (1985), a nominal comedy. Unfortunately,…

November 22, 2002 | Wonder why it's taken so long -- three years since The World is Not Enough -- for James Bond to renew his license to kill? Simple:…

June 30, 1989 | Throbbing to the beat of a rap-music rant, percolating to the heat of long-simmering rage, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is an audacious and exhilarating film,…

November 4, 1994 | The year is 2007, the city is ''New Angeles,'' the earthquake-ravaged remains of Los Angeles and San Diego, and the news is mostly bad. Much of the…

September 28, 2001 | Alfred Hitchcock once coined the term “refrigerator logic” – or maybe “ice-box logic,” I don’t remember precisely – to describe a type of after-the-fact nit-picking common among…

April 26, 2002 | Since I've never been a skateboarder -- and I've always been grateful that my teen-age son isn't one, either -- I foolishly assumed that Dogtown and…

December 3, 2004 | "How did you like it?" If you're a film critic, you're often asked this question, or some variation, before you can get out of the theater…

Van Helsing By Joe Leydon « back to main May 7, 2004  | Van Helsing, the latest monster mash from writer-director StephenSommers (The Mummy, The MummyReturns), is a chaotic blur of…