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America as a whole seems to be taking that to heart these days, with its omnivorous appetite for all things World War II, and the new video-game movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, in which Angelina Jolie travels back to spend quality time with her dead father, played by her living one, Jon Voight. If you really want to feel old and out of it (and who doesn't), go see Tomb Raider. I did, and was by four decades the oldest person in the cultist audience of teenagers. (Actually, there was another fellow my age in the theater...
...Indiana Jones film with handsomer graphics, Atlantis has almost exactly the same plot as the Angelina Jolie film Tomb Raider. Linguist-hero accompanies suspicious expedition to legendary hidden shrine; hero kills rogue male villain, vindicates visionary dead male ancestor. (Can't an action hero ever have a mother fixation?) Atlantis adroitly mixes 2-D and 3-D animation but is short on emotional heft and depth. It would be Disney's rotten luck this summer if its big-budget cartoon loses the tween market to an inferior live-action film with a boy-pleasing secret ingredient. Tomb Raider is Atlantis...
...still catching our breath from Pearl Harbor and Tomb Raider, and Jurassic Park III is yet to come. But when TIME put Steven Spielberg's JAWS (just named No. 2 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best movie thrillers) on its cover in 1975, Hollywood was just discovering the summer action blockbuster...
...Lost Highway down back roads. In September, his label will release Private Radio, a CD from actor-director Billy Bob Thornton ("I was a musician before I got into movies," he says). His CD features "dark story-songs," Thornton says, and two numbers are dedicated to his wife, Tomb Raider star Angelina Jolie. "They are songs that anyone can relate to," he says, "but there are a couple of lines that only she and I will get." He says a few tracks are "too country for country radio." Sounds as if he'll be right at home on Lost Highway...
...Tomb Raider...