Summer winding down and the onset of fall means more than just the leaves changing color and the nose returning to the grindstone. As the new season sets in, Hollywood prepares for a new season of movies sans the pointless explosiveness of summer films, but with high levels of quality geared towards a run at the Oscars.
Great expectations: Hopes high for busy fall movie schedule
What do The Pretenders, John Lee Hooker, Three Dog Night and Bad Company have in common?
Absolutely nothing! But, G.I. Jane's director Ridley Scott would like us to think so.
Having seen a million trailers for the film, I hit play expecting to hear something akin to the soundtrack from "Top Gun" - exciting, action-packed music that makes you feel like you are living out Demi Moore's adventures with her as a Navy SEAL (not a G.I., despite what the title says. Ask anyone you know in ROTC.)
'G.I. Jane' battles boredom: G.I. Jane Original Soundtrack
Attempting to cash in on the surprising success of the television series "Hercules," "Kull the Conqueror" features many of the same elements that have made the small-screen program popular, including beefcake-of-the-moment Kevin Sorbo. Still, that which makes a good TV show rarely makes a good movie, as "Kull" proves.'Kull' the Dull: Action film falls flat: Sorbo's big, hairy chest fails to inject life into 'Kull the Conqueror'
He was a handsome, respected, divorced philosophy professor at a small New England college who always followed a policy of never dating his students. She was an attractive, intelligent student with strong ideas about politics, philosophy and free love; a typical girl of her generation, but special.
Delbanco to read from 'Scores'
Recovering from this past summer's blockbuster disaster movies has been grueling, but the anguish has paid off after seeing a truly "quality" film, "Mrs. Brown." It is mind-boggling to think that all the deserved attention for such acclaimed movies as "Emma," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Much Ado About Nothing" is not also given to this latest 19th century film, a historically accurate account of the tumultuous life of Queen Victoria.'Brown' brings Queen to life
Lately, the question of the century has become, "Are we alone?" After an onslaught of movies, publications, television shows and a wide spectrum of publicized theories, it looks like it is time for us to seriously question whether there are other beings in this universe besides us.'Alien' probes enigmatic issue
09-09-97
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