Contributor: Lindy Keffer

Pumpkin King Jack Skellington is back. First released in 1993, ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ now makes annual October appearances. Is it a trick or a treat?

What happens when ‘Saturday Night Live’ types take on such a serious subject as surrogate motherhood? Oh baby!

In this movie version of the popular children’s book series, it’s as if ‘Gremlins’ gnaws its way into ‘Jumanji.’ The result is somewhat unexpected.

John Archibald lives between a rock and a hard place. And life looks like it can’t get worse—so of course it does.

Billy Bob Thornton’s eccentric family movie about one man’s quest to blast off into space amplifies Hollywood’s typical follow-your-dreams rhetoric to a crescendo.

A frustrated scientist, his fatherless nephew and a beautiful mountain guide set off to do exactly what the movie title says. You know this trek will be perilous for the explorers, but how safe is it for families?

Jim Carrey and Virginia Madsen get caught up in ‘A Novel of Obsession,’ a twisted and bloody tale about … a number.

Sex, drugs and … salsa. This movie (its title translates to ‘The Singer’) is the despair-filled story of Hector Lavoe, the man who made salsa hot in America.

Ice Cube stars in a crass comedy with a surprise sermon tucked inside. This is no ‘Friday’ movie, at least.

Chicago arrives on the heels of Oscar nominee Moulin Rouge and, like its musical predecessor, dazzles audiences with color, action and rip-roaring sound.

Here’s a movie that doesn’t just pull your chain.

An animated story of the old West ‘from the heart of a horse.’

This is former screenwriter Gregory Poirier’s first stab at directing. So how does a guy whose writing credits include Disney’s The Lion King II get hooked up with this kind of lowbrow excuse for a comedy?

This is the heart-wrenching story of a husband and wife weathering the onslaught of Alzheimer’s disease. But it’s no Hallmark movie. It’s too thoughtful—and too disturbing—for that.

Wealthy suburban Rancho Carne High School has a football team that can’t win a game to save its life. But its cheerleading squad has captured the national title five years running.