<P>There's something overly familiar about "Guarding Tess." Shirley MacLaine's an obnoxious former First Lady unwillingly saddled with Secret Service protection. Agent Nicolas Cage is the poor chump stuck with watching her. She makes his life h… [详细内容]
<P>With their woefully unsuccessful animation department floundering, Warner Bros. has pinned its hopes for cartoon greatness on a 50-foot-tall robot from outer space. Lucky for the studio, The Iron Giant is possibly the most completely realize… [详细内容]
<P>Sometimes you can hear an entire relationship reflected in the intonation of a single word. At the beginning of "Guarding Tess," a man carries a tray upstairs to a closed bedroom door, takes his gun from a holster, places it on a table next … [详细内容]
<P>"The Polar Express" has the quality of a lot of lasting children's entertainment: It's a little creepy. Not creepy in an unpleasant way, but in that sneaky, teasing way that lets you know eerie things could happen. There's a deeper, shivery … [详细内容]
<P>Harmless fodder for the American Idol generation but somewhat mind-numbing for the rest of us, ‘Make it Happen’ follows the fortunes of budding dancer Lauryn as she pursues her lifelong dream to…well, you know the rest. Aiding her on this… [详细内容]
<P>Kevin Costner's new movie is about a presidential election that literally comes down to one man, one vote. The vote belongs to Bud Johnson, an alcoholic egg inspector from New Mexico, who finds himself the focus of the eyes of the world. Cos… [详细内容]
<P>Having one passenger fall under his train makes distracted driver Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) look unfortunate, but by the second accident in under a month he starts to appear distinctly careless. Paul is played by the fish-eyed, sad-sack… [详细内容]
<P>Motion pictures are an illusion. They aren't really made of moving images at all, just a series of stills projected at 24 frames per second. The motion is a trick created with the help of shutters, lenses, a little sprocket device known as t… [详细内容]
<P>The perennial classic at our house.</P>
<P><BR>I think I first saw this story in Fourth grade. I identified with it. I've seen it every year since then; I still identify.</P>
<P>Ralphie is in a quandry. More than anything else in the wor… [详细内容]
<P>Making an enjoyable family Christmas comedy must be one of the most difficult things to accomplish in Hollywood, because the late-year presence of a good one in multiplexes is more rare than a White Christmas in New York City. Fred Claus, wh… [详细内容]
<P>Steve Carell of "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" has a personality, or maybe it is a lack of personality, that is growing on me. He is content to exist on the screen without sending wild semaphores of his intentions, his uniqueness and how funny he … [详细内容]
<P>After being treated to full-throttle performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and his late string quartets, you may walk out of "Copying Beethoven" humming the movie. But that's not the same as singing its praises. </P>
<P>A s… [详细内容]
<P>Now that the Christmas movie season has been taken over by big-budget prestige pictures and elephantine dazzlers designed to sweep in massive crowds, there's almost no such thing as an entertaining holiday trifle anymore -- the kind of casua… [详细内容]
<P>Given the typical movie franchise ‘arc of success’ that has been Shrek, Shrek the Halls is pretty much exactly what you’d expect – a throw-away piece of fluff with a seasonal hook to ensure it’s gobbled up by Shrek fans regardless of wh… [详细内容]
<P>Evidently, as things like yoga, alternative medicine, and meditation become more accepted by the mainstream, it creates a market of films for the new-agey niche. And that is likely just the audience for Peaceful Warrior, a feel-good, anythin… [详细内容]