Second chances. Teamwork. Faith. Discipline. Sobriety. Self-control. These and other life lessons make “Hoosiers” worth recruiting from the local video store.
It’s not every day a farmer spies a topless R&B singer in his wheat field. Yet that’s exactly what happened to Alan Graham last week. The Northern Ireland farmer had lent Rihanna’s film crew his property to shoot a music video. Before he knew it, s …
One of the gorier, more vulgar film adaptations of a Stephen King novel, Dreamcatcher is a convoluted horror/sci-fi potboiler.
Thrall, Texas. Population: 800. For most travelers along Route 79, this quiet town lined with cotton fields is just a rest stop on the way to … somewhere else. Its biggest claim to fame? Thrall holds the national record for rainfall in a 24-hour period …
This weekend, on the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, America will pause. We’ll reflect. We may even share stories with one another in response to the musical question posed by country singer Alan Jackson nearly a decade ago, “Where …
My favorite TV commercial in recent memory is for Best Buy. It’s the one where people are devastated to learn that their brand-new electronic gizmos are already outdated (“You got the wrong TV, silly head”). It’s painfully hilarious. It also illustrate …
In this humorous, warm-hearted drama, two eccentric old brothers in rural, 1950s Texas keep sacks of money hidden in their ramshackle barn …
Annihilation is nothing more than a series of Bruce Lee-style showdowns between acrobatic humans and otherworldly fighters with special powers.
In last summer’s The Mummy Returns, WWF superhunk The Rock made his big-screen debut as the menacing Scorpion King. Now he’s got his own movie.
Two-bit con men follow a treasure map to a legendary city of gold. The dreamer and the schemer brave sharks, leeches and rival fortune-hunters before landing in paradise.
This often clever spy spoof was inspired by a popular series of British credit card commercials from the 1990s.
You’ve gotta love it when one of the most powerful men in Hollywood is humble enough to second-guess a decades-old creative decision and, in doing so, affirm the value of intact families. That’s what Steven Spielberg did during an Entertainment Weekly …
“Is the PG-13 rating helping or hurting families?” That’s the question I posed in an article published in Plugged In magazine in the summer of 2001. The answer seemed pretty obvious even then. But after watching two recent movies featuring heroes from …
It’s the 21st Century. Earth’s ecology is in trouble, necessitating the colonization of other worlds.
