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Bryan Singer, whose last film was the crisply devious crime thriller The Usual Suspects, has narrowed his focus from that film's gang of five to a two-hander in Apt Pupil, from a Stephen King story. The other three directors have bought a big canvas (at a cut rate...
In Amistad, the story of a shipful of African slaves and their struggle for freedom, Stephen Spielberg pulls out all the stops, pouring on the pathos and the pity, spooning on the sympathy and drenching it all in melodrama. Spielberg has apparently decided to stop making films and instead to...
Well, that's it. Steven Spielberg gets the Golden Ladle Award. In a desperate attempt to relive the legitimacy and respect seemingly conferred on him after Schindler's List, Spielberg thought he'd wash the bad taste of The Lost World out of his mouth by once again tackling human...
On page 1 of the book, Dahl kills off James' parents--they are devoured by a rhinoceros--and, soon after, the wicked Sponge and Spiker. The story then lurches picaresquely amid near catastrophes. Selick gives this all a bit more focus by making sure the early events, including the rhinoceros...
Fortuitously, a shipful of Conquisatores show up, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting (Anthony Calnek), in search of the Island's unspeakably precious jewel, the William Sapphire. They inadvertently bring along an evil pseudo-cleric. Missionary Position (Jon Shapiro), whose dream is to bring the Island and then the world into...