Jan de Bont

Whoa. Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze's crime-surf classic "Point Break" is finally getting a sequel, with director Jan de Bont at the helm. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original screenwriter W. Peter Iliff is returning to script the sequel,...

3½ stars (out of four) Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" is a wildly imaginative portrayal of the Dutch Resistance in 1944 and 1945 and of an improbable but intense love affair between a Jewish spy (Carice van Houten) and a German Gestapo chief (Sebastian...

Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...

The sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...

2 stars (out of 4) Ridiculously clunky title aside, "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" is superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times...

In the kinder, gentler, dare I say more soulful new Lara Croft movie, Angelina Jolie doesn't just glower — she glowers with one eyebrow slightly raised. In any other movie this discreet gesture might go unnoticed, but in an industrial product like...

It took paranoid visionary Philip K. Dick to do what Stanley Kubrick could not: Get Steven Spielberg to fully cross over to the dark side. The question now is, how happy are we to have him there? Spielberg's "Minority Report" is amplified from a Dick...

Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," with Tom Cruise as a cop on the run in 2054 Washington, D.C., is a film that can get you high on the sheer magic and exhilaration of making movies. The film, based on a Philip K. Dick pulp science-fiction story about...

Science fiction is a good genre for creating dystopias - visions of nightmarish future societies - but the awful future we see in "Equilibrium" is one we've seen a few times too often. The movie, a mishmash of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," George...

Friday May 10, 1996      Think of it as nature's nuclear weapon, the Superman of weather phenomena. With winds upward of 300 mph, it can uproot anything in its path and destroy tall buildings with a single breath. But for all its frightening fierceness,...

Friday June 13, 1997      The Seabourn Legend has everything a movie cruise ship needs, including five passenger decks, swimming pool, health club, beauty salon, plus a mad terrorist to call its very own.      It's completely appropriate that "Speed 2:...

Friday July 23, 1999      "The Haunting" is such a feeble frightfest that even its characters seem irked at it. "You brought us here to scare us, is that it?" is the disbelieving reaction of the lovely Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sentiment that people...