POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Space Cowboys, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring the winning crew of Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner, looked like it could be a good time. While the first hour is an entertaining and human story, the second hour succumbs to the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Bring It On, Peyton Reed’s tongue-in-cheek comedy about high school cheerleading, is one of the funnier teen movies to emerge from the summer sludge. From the opening parody of a half-time cheer (“I’m sexy, I’m hot … you’re...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Spike Lee’s concert feature film, The Original Kings of Comedy, was funny, but it didn’t knock my socks off. The Kings of Comedy are four black comedians—Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac—who 29-year-old...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s a sad statement that some of the very best political speeches in the last few years have come from characters playing courageous and progressive thinking politicians in films. In The Contender, Rod Lurie’s skillfully scripted exploration...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Cross Waking Ned Divine with A Simple Plan and you get Nora Ephron’s dark new comedy, Lucky Numbers. Ephron takes a departure from her usual lighthearted romantic fare with this lightweight look at greed and treachery. It includes murder (done for...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Two film series this month are giving audiences a chance to see contemporary and classic foreign films that provide rich insight into the human condition.Cinema ClipsMeet the Parents ***It feels like a funny sitcom pilot stretched to feature length, but...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - It’s not hard to see why this fresh, feel-good love story was a hit at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s one of those amusingly benign comedies about the finer points of the mating ritual. Santa Fe native Jenniphr Goodman, who...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - In my school days we called them leeches. You couldn’t get rid of them; they wouldn’t take a hint. They were irritating people who failed to move on. They were trapped in another era while you had moved beyond their imagination. In Michael...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Cameron Crowe’s first film since his Oscar-nominated Jerry Maguire is another sort of Cinderella story. Set in 1973, it chronicles the coming-of-age of 15-year-old William (Salt Laker Patrick Fugit in his feature film debut), a music fan who realizes...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - After the first six episodes of Gilligan’s Island, aired, the TV series’ producer was contacted by the U.S. Coast Guard, who had received at least a dozen calls from concerned viewers. The viewers asked, in all seriousness, why the Coast Guard...