Droll stories, or droll vignettes, or droll sketches, of the walking wounded in the vicinity of a Brooklyn cigar store. Occasionally, at least once anyhow, something poignant occurs: a grieving widower, paging through the storekeeper's "conceptual" photo album of identically framed snapshots taken outside his shop at the same time …
Ah, the very title conjures up a fifty-year hit parade of big, bold, passionate (etc.) best-sellers. And for certain the original screenplay by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas has all the elements: all the horrors of family and the troubles of war; the suspense, the drama, the tragedy of a …
Incredible (not an accolade) damsel-in-distress thriller centered around a dutiful juror who, menaced by a mobster's minions, turns femme fatale to protect herself. Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, who knows how to purr but not much else, hasn't a clue how to play this part -- and who can blame her? With Gabriel …
Jay Russell's treatment of the Natalie Babbitt children's novel posits a backwoods family with a private Fountain of Youth (more than that, a Fountain of Indestructibility), and it weighs the merits of an eternal life ("What we Tucks have, you can't really call living. We just are. We're like rocks …
For all its end-of-the-millennium momentousness, for all its science-fictional gadgetry and threat of nuclear holocaust, for all its furtive fugitives and government agents and rhyming, harmonica-playing private eye ("To be effective, you need a detective"), for all its almost complete circumnavigation of the globe, and for all its two and …
Anti-terrorist exploitation to do with an apparent assassination of the U.S. President on Spanish soil on the eve of a peace accord, but an actual assassination of his look-alike: “Sir, we’ve used doubles since Reagan,” a page out of Saddam Hussein’s playbook, and the terrorists know that playbook backwards and …
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan painted himself into a corner with The Sixth Sense, and has climbed the walls ever since: Unbreakable, Signs, and now this. His outsized initial success seems to have given him an inflated sense of self-importance, an inflamed sense of mission: not simply to top the sensationalism …
Here's what you need to know: inside each of us is a miracle meant for just one person. The limber universe, which loves us all equally, bends over backwards for each and every one of us, and in so doing, reaches down to help us fulfill our destiny, which is …