EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- The lunch meeting grew into something of a legend over the years. It's gotten ''mythified,'' says Andrew Stanton, who was there.
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Write your own reviewWalking in to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, I was unaware the movie was spun off from a popular line of toy dolls -- more than 14 million of them have been sold. Nor did I know about the anticipation and excitement many little girls have for the movie, which is the fourth in the series (the previous three, made for TV, are available on DVD).
Write your own reviewNo one complains about collateral damage when Superman tries to confound Lex Luthor's schemes. The residents of Gotham never file lawsuits against Batman if he bangs up a few cars in pursuit of the Joker. For Hancock, though, fighting crime is a different story, possibly because he tends to fly to the rescue clutching a bottle of whiskey.
Write your own reviewThe idea for WALL-E, the ninth and arguably best film from Pixar Animation Studios, was born during a 1994 brainstorming session in which the company's founders knocked around ideas for follow-up movies to their upcoming debut, Toy Story, which was nearing completion.
Write your own reviewIn Roman de Gare, French filmmaker Claude Lelouche throws down the gauntlet to viewers who can spot any plot twist, no matter how illogical or impractical. Never seen a murder mystery you couldn't outwit? Here is your movie.
Write your own review''Do not scorn a weak cub,'' reads a proverb at the start of Mongol. ``He may become a brutal tiger.'' Genghis Khan, of course, is more than brutal; he will eat tigers for breakfast. The legendary 13th century conqueror, who controlled a fifth of the world at the height of his power, has been the protagonist of two previous Hollywood films. In one, he was played by John Wayne; in the other Omar Sharif. Neither film is remembered today, for good reason.
Write your own reviewOnce upon a time -- a thousand years ago, in fact -- a clan of weavers banded together to form an assassins club and, presumably, knit some nice sweaters in their down time. They do not kill randomly. They take their orders from a magical loom of fate. If your name pops up via the loom's secret code, consider yourself dead.
Write your own reviewGet Smart turns out to be a much more entertaining movie than its tedious trailers suggest. It's not going to redefine comedy as we know it, but it's amusing and briskly paced, busy with an engaging mix of supporting actors. Most crucially, Steve Carell (The Office) works out fine as this more appealing Max, more an eager bumbler than an inept know-it-all.
Write your own reviewWhen did it happen, this moment at which Mike Myers morphed from Minor Annoyance Who Used to Be Funny to Officially Unbearable Bore? Was it on the third journey to the Shrek well, or the fourth? The first Austin Powers sequel or the we're-barely-even-trying-here Goldmember? Or -- most likely -- did he get lost somewhere in the smug, smarmy chaos of Cat in the Hat, a film as charming and delightful as a hairball in your morning coffee?
Write your own reviewBased on the memoir by British writer Blake Morrison, When Did You Last See Your Father? uses its title to pose a penetrating question. When did you last see the man when he was himself -- not sick, not fading but healthy and vibrant? How you answer largely determines how you will respond to this gloomy little movie, which is frustratingly stagnant at times but ultimately a moving story about a dying father and the son who must come to terms with him.
Write your own reviewIt's easy see why The Foot Fist Way snared a cult following at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The low-budget comedy, the first release from Will Ferrell and Andy McKay's Gary Sanchez Productions, is unpretentious and crudely funny. It focuses on a clueless Taek Kwon Do instructor who runs a school in a North Carolina strip mall and suffers from delusions of grandeur that crumble when he learns of his wife's indiscretions.
Critics panned Xanadu when it hit theaters in the summer of 1980. ''Where else can you see Olivia Newton-John skate around in rags with lightbulbs on her knees?'' sniffed one scribe at the time.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Unrated) : Although it didn't make the final cut of Oscar nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film, Romanian writer- director Cristian Mungiu's suspenseful, absolutely riveting film is one of the year's best. Using the harrowing experiences of two college roommates (Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu) negotiating to secure a black-market abortion, the movie depicts the dear price paid by a society under totalitarian rule, where the most basic qualities that bind us as...
The Bucket List (PG-13) : The point of Rob Reiner's latest movie is not to explore how we cope with impending death but the concept of throwing together two cinematic lions (Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman) into reliably comfortable roles and seeing if the mix is potent enough to lure audiences. Nicholson plays a rich guy who ends up in his own hospital; Freeman is the wise sage in the next bed who helps them both come to terms with mortality. Not all that funny, and not all that special, either...
