Movies from Film Forum, 10/25/01Riding in Cars with Boys is based on the best-selling memoirs of writer Beverly Donofrio, starring Drew Barrymore in her first attempt at a demanding dramatic lead role....
Movies from Film Forum,10/18/01But David Lynch's Mulholland Drive isn't bound for blockbusting. It's for those who want a challenge, and especially for those who enjoy David Lynch's maze-like, nonlinear...
Movies from Film Forum, 06/07/01Baz Luhrmann's over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek, sentimental Strictly Ballroom became an unexpected international hit in the mid-'90s, integrating pop tunes and a Rocky formula...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/08/01The Coen Brothers have given us some of the strangest, funniest, and darkest visions of fortune-hunting in America, from Raising Arizona to Fargo. Riding the wave of Oscar...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/08/01Speaking of great actors, Life as a House gives Kevin Kline, one of the most underrated, underused lead actors in movies, a big showy role as George, an architect struggling...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/25/01Robert Redford returns to the screen with a good-guy/bad-guy tale that capitalizes on the new wave of American patriotism, emphasizing its pro-America sentiments in its...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/01/01"Prot" is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to have arrived on Earth on "a beam of light" from the planet K-PAX. His doctor, his fellow patients, and...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/18/01Got an itch for an action flick? Consider Joy Ride, the latest thriller from director John Dahl, who hit the scene with a small wonder called Red Rock West a decade ago....
Movies from Film Forum, 12/13/01Similarly, In the Bedroom is gaining impressive kudos from almost all sides, but a few religious-press critics are nevertheless disgruntled. The story follows a family...
Movies from Film Forum, 07/19/01Widely compared to the popular comedy Clueless, Legally Blondefollows the rise of a pretty airhead through an obstacle course of intellectual and romantic challenges.Preview's...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/15/01Heist's title is straightforward about the movie's subject. Writer/director David Mamet (State and Main, Wag the Dog, Glenngarry Glen Ross) gives us an accomplished husband-wife...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/4/01This month, director Scott Hicks (Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars) brings us a big-screen adaptation of one of Stephen King's kinder, gentler tales—Hearts in Atlantis....
Movies from Film Forum, 08/09/01Or try Ghost World, which won accolades at the Seattle International Film festival and a Best Actress award for star Thora Birch (American Beauty). The movie, based on...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/18/01If none of these fit the bill, perhaps you'll go for the superhuman antics of martial-arts combatants. Iron Monkey—a movie that has already been released on video—is...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/25/01Jack the Ripper's grisly London crimes caused such a circus of news, mythmaking, and conspiracy theories that he remains one of the most famous serial killers. Numerous...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/04/01While the church-funded film Megiddo: The Omega Code 2foretells the apocalypse for mostly-Christian audiences across the country, another church-funded film opened with...
Movies from Film Forum, 11/08/01John Travolta plays one mad dad in Domestic Disturbance. His wife has divorced him and taken up with a cruel and unusual beau, played by Vince Vaughan, leaving her son...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/04/01Even as worthwhile films started a promising season, a few collapsed just out of the starting gate.In case you're curious about Glitter, that movie starring Mariah Carey,...
Movies from Film Forum, 10/18/01Since Bandits doesn't sound like it measures up, you might be tempted to buy a ticket to Corky Romano, the latest in the long mediocre line of Saturday Night Live spinoffs....
Movies from Film Forum, 12/13/01In the arthouses on the other side of town, a couple of low-profile flicks are getting some impressive mainstream responses and some bad press from the religious media.The...