Another genealogical revelation, very much in the same line as the sole revelation in The Empire Strikes Back. Numerous other pursuits and skirmishes and creatures and contraptions -- again in the same line as those that came before. The third and final chapter in the adventures of Luke Skywalker and …
A light doomsday snack, unsatisfying even for the duration. One wonders whether, out of post-9/11 sensitivity, or trepidation, or something, the images of a nuclear blast in Baltimore (at a football stadium where "Chicago" is for some reason lined up against "Florida"), not to mention its immediate aftermath, haven't been …
Acceptable encore to the ghost stories of the year previous, The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes. Fully equal to them in the voltage of the jolts, and even the overall number of them. Emptier of ideas, however; more mechanical in execution; but at the same time sleeker in surface …
Peter Weir takes up his interest in Culture Clash and sets it down in modern-day Pennsylvania, where the Amish community assumes the "primitive" role previously filled by Australian Aborigines. It is not necessary to know a people intimately in order to satisfy Weir's curiosity. The early scenes, of a horse-drawn …
Picture this: it's to be a sort of New York fairy tale about an ambitious, industrious, competent, loyal, and trusting secretary outrunning all the rats in the rat race, and the first shot is an aerial one of the face of Lady Liberty. Might you just as well give up …