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Among the film’s redeeming features are several outstanding performances. Delroy Lindo plays Bobby Blane, Moore’s earnest, loyal and dependable comrade-in-arms. Though his character is limiting and static, Lindo remains charismatic and likeable. Ricky Jay’s performance is also noteworthy; the Mamet regular portrays third man Don Pincus, a consummate professional who is willing to get hit by a car to buy his accomplices time. The soft-spoken Jay is elegant and convincing in a role that, though small, becomes very crucial to the plot of the film...

Author: By Alex Potapov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Steal This Movie, Please: Mamet's 'Heist' | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...best for last. The premier monster in Monsters, Inc. is not a hairless green ogre, however, but the esteemed James P. Sullivan, nicknamed “Sulley” (John Goodman)—a genial hulk with long blue fur and purple spots, always accompanied by his loyal but absent-minded Scare Assistant, Mike Wakowski (Billy Crystal), who resembles a one-eyed green pea. Both work for Monsters, Incorporated—an energy plant in the well-run township of Monstropolis, managed by a certain Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), who scuttles around on his many legs lamenting...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The (Un)usual Suspects | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

Determined to keep the Harry Potter movie loyal to the plot of the book, the filmmakers are not cutting anything. The current anticipated run time...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

...based in Kandahar told TIME that one possible target would be a mountain complex in southwestern Afghanistan, built by bin Laden as an al-Qaeda base because of its proximity to the Pakistani border. The camp is nestled in a canyon lined with gunners--reportedly Sudanese--who are fiercely loyal to bin Laden. "The Americans are crazy to go in there," says the Afghan vet. "The Arabs are everywhere. It's like a scorpions' nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fray | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

This puts all the flaggery in an unflattering light. We have an awfully easy nation to be patriotic in. If you want to help the war effort, says the President, go out and spend money. Meanwhile he and the loyal opposition will decide whether defeating Osama bin Laden requires Americans to swallow a tax cut or suffer new infusions of federal spending. If this is what you can do for your country, then ask not what your country can do for you. It's hard to imagine how the government could coddle us more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be a Patriot. Don't Hoard Cipro! | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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