<P>cIronically, what I was most excited about seeing in Patch Adams is what eventually left me feeling cheated by it in the end. After seeing the trailers, I knew I was going to get Robin Williams playing that lovably sensitive, extremely funny… [详细内容]
<P>First time director David Slade’s film “Hard Candy” is an impressive and challenging entry into the revenge thriller genre. The film opens by introducing us to Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom Of The Opera”), a 30-something photograph… [详细内容]
<P>IF YOU'RE A constant moviegoer, if you hang in there through all the bad movies, disappointments and blown opportunities, then sooner or later you've got to acknowledge the nobility of actors. I don't think "nobility" is too strong a word to… [详细内容]
<P>Cancer does terrible things to people, but what it does to movies is pretty awful, too -- particularly when you consider that cancer movies are a purely man-made phenomenon. How long before we get a cure? </P>
<P>Irwin Winkler's uplifting … [详细内容]
<P>The best things about Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood are not elements that will build large audiences. This is a film about character development/disintegration and a comprehensive look at the early days of the oil industry. The … [详细内容]
<P>Make It Happen is the next film to arrive out of the recent trend of dance-until-your-dreams-come-true feel-good flicks but interlaced within the subtext is a frighteningly appealing mistruth. </P>
<P>One of the things I find most thrillin… [详细内容]
<P>They say baseball is popular because everyone thinks they can play it. Similar reasoning may explain the popularity of the Olsen twins: Teenage girls love them because they believe they could be them. What, after all, do Mary-Kate and Ashley… [详细内容]
<P>With December’s Grace Is Gone reaping positive advance buzz, John Cusack seems on the verge of a breakthrough in his career, finally ready to be taken seriously after decades of playing updated versions of Lloyd Dobler, his iconic character… [详细内容]
<P>Grown-up son living at home becomes angry and frustrated when his mom brings a new guy into the picture. Wait, didn't I just see this movie? Literally, a week ago?</P>
<P>Turns out My Mom's New Boyfriend has some differences with Mama's Bo… [详细内容]
<P>The buzz is that Kevin Kline will likely receive an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of George, the protagonist of Irwin Winkler's Life as a House. If it comes to pass, will this be a deserved nomination? Probably not. Kline's performance … [详细内容]
After the death of beloved brother Paul, Terri (Duff) struggles with the decision to defy her overprotective dad and pursue her spotlight-centered dreams. Terri learns she's been accepted into a "prestigious" performing-arts program on the West… [详细内容]
<P>There's a pattern here -- every time Americans get really fat and self-satisfied, we start feeling miserable about ourselves. "Fight Club" is at least the third major Hollywood film of the year to hunt for the hidden meanings beneath our aff… [详细内容]
<P> Like The Full Monty, Calendar Girls features a group of middle-aged individuals stripping off their clothing. Unlike Peter Cattaneo's delightful 1997 flick, this one has trouble finding the right blend of comedy and drama, and the resultant… [详细内容]
<P>Hilary Duff's squeaky clean agenda, to become preteen America's sweetheart in song and on screen, couldn't be more obvious here. This is for Duff's already committed audiences, which presumably consist of the young, the innocent and the comm… [详细内容]
<P>It is probable that long before psychoanalytical literary criticism became fashionable, readers of Jane Austen's novels wanted to know how a woman who lived her relatively short life as a spinster could know so much about love, yearning, bet… [详细内容]