Zoolander
September 28, 2001 | According to the production notes for Zoolander, director, star and co-screenwriter Ben Stiller based his movie “on a 1996 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards character he co-created with MTV…
Year of the Yao
April 15, 2005 | You don’t have to be a rabid hoops fanatic – heck, you don’t even have to know the difference between slam dunking and slam dancing – to…
Yanna’s Friends
July 12, 2002 | Here's the pitch: Russian émigrés endure romantic and financial upheavals after arriving in Israel just before the start of the 1991 Gulf War. Sounds like a…
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
June 1, 2001 | Like the early, tell-tale sniffles that portend a nasty cold, the opening minutes of What's the Worst That Can Happen? prime you to expect an unpleasant…
The World is Not Enough
November 19, 1999 | The World is Not Enough may be more than enough to impress most action-movie fans. But for long-time aficionados of the James Bond series, this latest…
Working Girl
December 21, 1988 | Working Girl is a clever, class-conscious fairy tale, directed with clockwork precision and razor-sharp insight by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Silkwood). Much like the recently released Dirty…
Wonderland
October 17, 2003 | Consumer alert: Don't mistake Wonderland for family-friendly fare about Mad Hatters, Red Queens and White Rabbits. This aggressively grungy drama actually is a bad-time story, a…
What Women Want
December 15, 2000 | Mel Gibson plays for keeps even as he plays for laughs in What Women Want, an unusually satisfying high-concept comedy propelled by extremely potent star power.…
Wolf
June 17, 1994 | Given Jack Nicholson's predilection for leaping over the top and feasting on the scenery, the restraint of his performance in Mike Nichols' Wolf is pretty close to…
With A Friend Like Harry
May 4, 2001 | Lots of directors seek inspiration in the classics of Alfred Hitchcock – did somebody say Brian De Palma? – but relatively few actually learn the right lessons…