Jon Amiel

David E. Kelley's "The Wedding Planners" is already slated for a spring premiere on FOX and now the show even has a cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Teri Polo, Sarah Jones and KaDee Strickland will play three sisters who run a wedding-...

Much was lost in transition from BBC miniseries to American movie in "The Singing Detective" -- wit, soul and texture have been replaced by shallow obviousness and glib sentiment. The film is sour, unpleasant and, given its stylistic flourishes, curiously...

(PG-13). The center of the Earth has stopped spinning, electro-magnetic fields are short-circuiting and a band of intrepid pilots and scientists has to jump-start the geophysical engine. Delightfully crackpot, harebrained, exciting and funnier than most...

People in Boston are suddenly collapsing in their tracks, dropping dead at exactly the same second. Pigeons in London's Trafalgar Square are flying blind, crashing into taxis and terrifying tourists. And scientists all over the world are scratching...

Electro-magnetism and the mysteries of the earth's core are fascinating subjects, but "The Core," unhappily, turns them into pseudo-sci-fi nonsense. This elaborate misfire, which misuses an unusually good cast, is an end-of-the-world movie about a...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

Friday October 27, 1995      Every age, it's often said, gets the entertainment it deserves, and no one living in today's America can doubt that we're experiencing an era of near-paranoid obsession with crime and personal safety.      We double-lock our...

Friday November 14, 1997      "The Man Who Knew Too Little" is too little, too late. At a time when the James Bond franchise struggles to keep au courant, a sendup of those Cold War spy capers of the '60s and '70s requires considerable imagination....

Friday February 5, 1999      When enchanted restaurant chef Amanda Shelton (Sarah Michelle Gellar, TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") cries into her saucepan, the result is a dish that sends her diners into paroxysms of joyous tears. They can't help it:...

Friday April 30, 1999      "Entrapment" is meant to be a glitzy bauble, but it hasn't been polished to a truly high sheen. While the film glistens a bit now and again, a closer look reveals you've been diverted not by a diamond but by a genuine synthetic...