<P>"Chicago" continues the reinvention of the musical that started with "Moulin Rouge." Although modern audiences don't like to see stories interrupted by songs, apparently they like songs interrupted by stories. The movie is a dazzling song an… [详细内容]
The film which lifted Columbia Studios into the big league by winning five Academy Awards and putting Capra's future output among the biggest box-office successes of the '30s. Gable plays a ruthless reporter who adopts a fugitive heiress making… [详细内容]
<P>Most of Martin Scorsese's films have been about men trying to realize their inner image of themselves. That's as true of Travis Bickle as of Jake LaMotta, Rupert Pupkin, Howard Hughes, the Dalai Lama, Bob Dylan or, for that matter, Jesus Chr… [详细内容]
<P>The worst thing you can do when facing the latest installment in the Harry Potter movie franchise is to yearn for the same kind of sturdy poetry J.K. Rowling has given us in the books they're based on. Which isn't to say that we haven't some… [详细内容]
<P>Made of Honor, beginning with its flat pun of a title, is another wedding-themed romantic comedy that fizzles when it should fizz. As anyone who has seen the ubiquitous posters knows, Patrick Dempsey (aka Dr. McDreamy) plays the maid of hono… [详细内容]
<P>Casual film fans who know Clark Gable only as the mysterious rogue Rhett Butler will be delighted and surprised by his other side: Gable was a brilliant comic actor, as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night amply demonstrates.</P>
<P>Peter W… [详细内容]
<P>Most of us have a hard enough time surviving high school once. What if we were given the opportunity to do it all over again? How would we react to the second chance? Would we repeat the same mistakes, hang out with the same kind of people, … [详细内容]
<P>Dr. Stephen Strange is one of the best doctors in medicine. He's so good he doesn't even have to be nice to his staff, nor does he have to care for patients he'd rather not. But the night Strange's hands are crushed in a freak auto accident … [详细内容]
<P>I saw the stage version of "Mamma Mia!" in London, where for all I know, it is now entering the second century of its run, and I was underwhelmed. The film version has the advantage of possessing Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried… [详细内容]
<P>It must be hard to misread the tone of a book as single-minded as Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr. Ripley," but Anthony Minghella manages somehow. Minghella has filmed Highsmith's nasty classic of homicidal paranoia in the deluxe style… [详细内容]
<P>50 First Dates offers viewers a kinder, gentler Adam Sandler. Gone (at least for one movie) is the narcissistic adolescent caught in a perpetual state of arrested development. In his place is a likeable goofball whose rough edges are worn of… [详细内容]
<P>In "Just Like Heaven," a man falls in love with a woman only he can see. She's not a ghost, because she's not dead, but a spirit. Why is she visible only to him? Perhaps because he has moved into her apartment. In a movie like this there is … [详细内容]
<P>In "Under the Tuscan Sun," a recently divorced writing professor and book reviewer -- played by Diane Lane -- escapes from her painful past in San Francisco to Tuscany, where she impulsively buys a ramshackle house that needs more work than … [详细内容]
<P>Being Julia has all the trappings of a well-made movie-elegant sets and costumes, lustrous cinematography, attractive people flaunting social convention-yet it feels impressionistic, as though the filmmakers were more interested in good goss… [详细内容]
<P>M aximus: I'm required to kill--so I kill. That's enough.</P>
<P>Proximo: That's enough for the provinces, but not for Rome.</P>
<P>A foolish choice in art direction casts a pall over Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" that no swordplay can cut … [详细内容]