Before the advance press screening of "The Stepford Wives" in Kansas City, members of Ron McGee's Late Night Theatre troupe performed a number from their musical of the same name. The company of femaleimpersonators donned sun hats and sundresses while pushing aroundshopping carts during a ...
Tornadoes. Floods. Hail the size of muskmelons.Sounds like springtime in Kansas.Of course, it's a little different once these forces begin wiping outthe entire Northern Hemisphere, which is exactly what happens in thedisaster epic "The Day After Tomorrow."Part throwback to the era of ...
The large green monster with the serious attitude problem is back ...and, thankfully, it's not the Hulk.Three years after the original "Shrek" raked in $270 million at thebox-office and won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the inevitablesequel has materialized. In the grand scheme of things, ...
Achilles. Ajax. Paris. Odysseus.Thousands of years after these legendary figures lived, their names still hold meaning - even if some people only know them as body parts or household cleaners."Troy" attempts to envision these godlike warriors, princes and kings as real men. For the most part, ...
One wonders if modern audiences even realize there was a time when horror films didn't rely on special effects.There was a time when horror films didn't need to have a breakneck action scene every 8-10 minutes. There was a time when filmmakers expended more effort manipulating celluloid than ...
The sets are grand, the costumes are perfect, the history of thesituation is clearly explained.But despite the attention to all the cosmetic details, there's not aframe of "The Alamo" where viewers aren't aware they're watching amovie.Director and co-writer John Lee Hancock ("The Rookie") ...
Comic books and graphic novels are being tailored for the big screenin record numbers. But for every "Road to Perdition" there is a"League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."In other words, for every skillful interpretation there is one thatmerely exploits the premise as a means to unleash another ...
It's refreshing to see Tom Hanks return to comedy.After more than a decade of validating his talent as one ofHollywood's finest dramatic actors, Hanks revisits the style forwhich he was first known - and for the initial half of his career,for which he was ONLY known.With "The Ladykillers" - a ...
I first saw George Romero's apocalyptic zombie effort "Dawn of theDead" at a midnight movie screening in Kansas City when I was 15.Needless to say it made an impression.Pre-dating flicks like "Aliens" and "From Dusk Til Dawn," theoriginal "Dawn of the Dead" was the first movie to truly fuse ...
"Pulp Fiction" is widely hailed as the most influential film of the1990s. Yet there's an argument to be made that honor should go to"Seven."David Fincher's 1995 effort about two cops on the trail of a sadisticserial killer has spawned dozens of imitators. Usually the storiesinvolve a ...