John Altman

The Rutles put yet another spin on pop-music reality with a 30th-anniversary event Monday in Hollywood that included what turned out to be the first performance ever by the four members of the ersatz Liverpudlian rock group. Although the Rutles made...

2½ stars (out of 4) "Shall We Dance?" is a well-meaning but overdressed Americanization of the charming 1996 Japanese romantic comedy about a repressed Tokyo businessman who blossoms at a local dance school. And it definitely has a glamor problem. Where...

"Shall We Dance?" makes the move from Tokyo to Chicago with the deftness of Fred Astaire leading Ginger Rogers. In Masayuki Suo's 1996 version, a Tokyo office manager who's hit a bored and dissatisfied passage in his life catches a glimpse of a...

Friday October 3, 1997      When the Irish finally take over the world, it'll be the likes of "The Matchmaker" that people look back on and say, "Ahhhh, that's how they caught us with our pants down. . . . "      You know the movie drill: singing,...

Friday December 4, 1998      Everyone calls her L.V., short for Little Voice, because she's so quiet her vocal powers barely exist at all. Shy to the point of being reclusive, she lives with her mother in a depressed seaside town in England's North,...

Friday March 31, 1995      What are Jerry Lewis, Leslie Caron, Ruta Lee and Harold Nicholas doing in the same film?      They and a similar contingent of British stalwarts are lending stellar support to two young actors, Oliver Platt and Lee Evans, in...