Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a veritable somnambulist, moving through life as a helmsmanless boat coursing through choppy waters.
And like that boat, Quoyle has little effect on the forces knocking against him. Instead, he has absorbed the blows as they have come.
From his father – who threw a young Quoyle into the lake and told him [...]

Ruth Fowler (Sissy Spacek), a choral music teacher, wants the best for her son Frank (Nick Stahl). She wants him to finish college and build a life that will take him from Camden, Maine.
So it comes as no surprise that Ruth disproves of Frank’s relationship with Natalie Strout (Marisa Tomei), the mother of two boys [...]

The three Tenenbaum children started out as incredibly gifted.
Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Chas (Ben Stiller) had an early knack at international finance and bought real estate in his teens. Margot Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), the adopted child, was a noted playwright, [...]

Robert Altman’s “Gosford Park” begins at a shooting party in 1932 and escalates to the murder of Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon), the lord of the manor. Throughout the film, we discover everyone harbors a secret relating to infidelities, indiscretions, bastard children and mismanaged funds.
Starring Britain’s finest actors, “Gosford” is a fascinating and entertaining exploration [...]

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Turn on CNN at any time and watch as religious and political clashes erupt into violence. How dictators, lustful for power and wealth, squeeze their people until bones crack [...]

As far as quality motion pictures go, 2001 started out molasses slow and stayed that way until nearly year’s end.
It was a year that promised much but delivered surprisingly little.
We were subjected to soulless sequels, “Scary Movie 2″ and “Jurassic Park III,” to name just two, and the rest were either derivative or wallowed in [...]