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Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. Atoning for the flop Cutthroat Island, director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors (including a Tarzan stunt echoing one of Jackie Chan's in Police Story). But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might want...
...uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist. Writer Shane Black mines his thriller premise while musing on issues of identity and redemption; he also shaped the itchy camaraderie of Davis and Jackson. "Atoning for the flop 'Cutthroat Island,' director Renny Harlin pumps up the genre adrenaline and puts his wife-star through her labors," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. "But he keeps sight of the film's disquieting subtext: that we often don't know what monsters swim inside us. And if we did, we might...
Most journalists do not understand how clever these operatives are. For instance, reporters think it fiendishly clever to ask the flip-flop question. ("Sir, in 1986 you voted to permit the building of falafel stands in the Grand Canyon. Last year you opposed the bill. Isn't there a contradiction here?" Correct response: "Not at all, Ted. You're overlooking a key distinction...
...Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn (Absurd Person Singular; Woman in Mind) wrote the book for and is directing a revamped version of By Jeeves, based on the P.G. Wodehouse character, at Connecticut's Goodspeed-at-Chester theater. The musical was a flop back in the 1970s, but its composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, seems to have done all right. He's got a new musical too: Whistle Down the Wind, which opens in Washington in December and is due on Broadway next spring. No falling chandeliers--just some kids who find a stranger...
Which isn't to say big studios ignore the DTV market. The majors have long seen DTV as a dumping ground for films they thought might flop theatrically; recently New Line demoted Theodore Rex, an excruciatingly whimsical comedy about future cop Whoopi Goldberg and her dinosaur partner, to a video release. Increasingly, though, the majors view DTV as an attractive alternative--a place to release franchise spin-offs, avoid $50 million marketing costs, make a bundle. Sequels to such mainstream fare as Land Before Time, Darkman, Children of the Corn and the Jim Varney Ernest series have been...