`ELEMENT’ ENTERTAINS AND THRILLS
Our Flick of the Week is "The Fifth Element," which proves that Hollywood types aren't the only ones who can make entertaining special-effects extravaganzas. French director Luc Besson, best known...
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CHARACTERS, LOGIC SUFFER A `BREAKDOWN’
Our Flick of the Week is "Breakdown," a city dweller's nightmare in which a couple from Massachusetts traveling cross-country suffers a breakdown on a remote highway in the West. And...
`VOLCANO’ MELTS WITH BORING SCRIPT
Our Flick of the Week is "Volcano," and my reaction to it is like to my response to "Twister" -- instead of "great wind; boring script," this is a case...
PRESIDENTIAL CAPER PLOTS TIRESOME
Our Flick of the Week is "Murder at 1600," yet another presidential caper -- a subject that is really getting tiresome; I'm starting to hate the sight of the White...
`ANACONDA’ GIVES GOOD SLITHER
Our Flick of the Week is "Anaconda," a surprisingly good creature-on-the-loose picture even though in a number of its most exciting scenes you can plainly see that the giant snake...
`TEAM’ AN AIR BALL EVEN WITH RODMAN
Our Flick of the Week is "Double Team," in which Dennis Rodman makes his official movie debut (he has a brainless, brief appearance in "B.A.P.S.") and turns out to have...
PITT, FORD NEVER ERR IN `DEVIL’S OWN’
Our Flick of the Week is "The Devil's Own," Alan Pakula's thriller about the so-called Irish "troubles" that ultimately is more of an anti-gun statement than anything else. Beyond that,...
OSCAR NIGHT NOT REALLY OVER UNTIL IT’S OVER
Here are insights, gossip and assorted tidbits I scooped up on the red carpet, backstage and at parties for the 69th annual Academy Awards: - It's been widely reported that...
CARREY’S NEW COMEDY IS `LITE’
Our Flick of the Week is "Liar Liar," the new Jim Carrey comedy in which he reinvents himself as a sweetheart. Hey, if Howard Stern can do it, why not...
`RETURN’ A WEAK BUT FUN END TO TRILOGY
Our Flick of the Week is "Return of the Jedi Special Edition," which I think is the weakest of the "Star Wars" trilogy. An early battle in the desert between...