Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. George and Gracie Burns. Gwen Harrison and Eddie Thomas.
All these Hollywood couples had the ability to make audiences fall in love with them. Together they dazzled. Apart … not so great.
In the case of “America’s Sweethearts” Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusak), audiences won’t [...]

In the last few years, the British have found renewed inspiration in the gangster film.
Writer-director Guy Ritchie undoubtedly pointed the way with his 1998 hit “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” a reinvention of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs,” then showed fellow filmmakers he could outdo even himself with last years “Snatch.”
But while the recent spate [...]

As “Southern Comfort” begins, Robert Eads tells the camera with some amusement how a member of “Take Back Georgia” asked him to join this group positioned just to the right of the Ku Klux Klan.
With his pipe, cowboy hat, sunglasses, Southern drawl and weathered face, Eads looks every inch a good old boy. But, he [...]

While growing up, Timothy Linh Bui often noticed how his Vietnamese mother would be filled with sadness.
“I wanted to understand her sorrow,” he said.
He gets closer to that goal with his directorial feature film debut, “Green Dragon,” a story that he co-wrote with his brother, Tony, about the losses and fears facing the first wave [...]

“Jurassic Park III” charged into theaters July 18, racking up about $80.9 million in five days.
Although the basic premise remains the same as the first two – bioengineered behemoths threaten human intruders – audiences will be glad to discover mathematical genius Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) has deferred center stage to paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), [...]

Marlon Brando picks his projects few and far between.
Since 1990, he has appeared in only about six films. Compare that to Robert De Niro, his costar in “The Score.” In that same time, he’s starred in about 30.
So, when fans learn Brando’s back, many are quick to queue.
Few can say this Omaha son has lost [...]

As the first entirely computer-generated feature film, “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” is a true landmark.
Hironobu Sakaguchi, president of Square USA, the company responsible for the interactive games, and director of “Final Fantasy,” the movie, exhibits a real dedication to innovation with this effort.
Desiring to push the medium further than ever before, Sakaguchi and his [...]

Had it not been for the determination of one extraordinary woman, the world might never have known the truth about the giant panda.
Following her husband’s death in 1936, New York socialite and clothing designer Ruth Harkness journeyed to China to retrieve his ashes. After reading about his brush with a giant panda in his journal, [...]

As the director of Lincoln, Nebraska’s Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, a venue for independent film, Danny L. Ladely said he attends the Sundance Film Festival and Telluride Film Festivals every year.
The connections he makes at these events translates to great opportunities for local cineastes.
Many of the judges at the sixth installment of the biennial [...]

In 1990, French writer and director Luc Besson unleashed “La Femme Nikita,” a film about a junkie criminal recruited by the government and trained as an assassin.
The film became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, spurring a dismal American remake, “Point of No Return,” and a television series that ran for four years.
In [...]