January 23, 2004 | In June 1985, two young British climbers attempted to scale the previously unclimbed west face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes. Undaunted…
December 19, 1997 | The big iceberg doesn't make its first appearance until 97 minutes or so into James Cameron's three-hour-plus Titanic. And when it finally does brush against the "unsinkable"…
August 15, 1996 | Now that Kevin Costner has gotten Wyatt Earp and Waterworld out of his system, and Ron Shelton has gotten Cobb out of his, it's good to see…
November 26, 2003 | Coming so soon after the Middle Aged slapstick of Black Knight and the self-conscious tongue-in-cheekiness of A Knight's Tale – not to mention the 25 th…
October 12, 2001 | Twenty years after its brief theatrical run, Peter Bogdanovich’s They All Laughed remains a featherweight romantic comedy best remembered for a horrifying off-screen tragedy. Indeed, the advertising…
August 10, 1990 | Are you ready for a film in the grand tradition of a Raymond Chandler mystery? Not in the tradition of movies based on Chandler, mind you, but…
November 6, 1998 | Director Edward Zwick balances popcorn-movie heroics with more substantial food for thought in The Siege, a surprisingly persuasive drama that considers the ramifications of martial law as a…
June 13, 1996 | Don Simpson is gone -- he died last January at 52, the victim of prodigious self-indulgence -- but, as The Rock indicates, his influence lingers on. Along…
November 26, 2003 | For persuasive proof that, just like our mothers warned us, you really can have too much of a good thing, look no further than The Missing.…