Kevin J O'Connor

Marlene Dietrich used to extol in song the virtues of a man who takes his time. Were she still about, the screen diva might have had a soft spot for Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson, two artists known for the long, considered intervals that...

Shortly after the Civil War, Colonel Carver (Liam Neeson) hunts Gideon (Pierce Brosnan) across the West in hopes of settling an undisclosed score. Big question: Can co-writer/director David Von Ancken ("Cold Case," "CSI: NY," "The Shield," "Without a...

3½ stars (out of four) "Seraphim Falls" is a movie some will relish and others will find a bit anachronistic. It's a violently exciting Western with a vision of the West that's grand, mythic and also full of near-surreal menace, starring two Irish-born...

3 stars (out of 4) "Van Helsing," Stephen Sommers' high-tech revision of three Universal horror classics--"Dracula," "Frankenstein" and "The Wolf Man"--is a movie that's underwritten, overdirected, overproduced and almost constantly over-the-top. But it'...

Friday January 30, 1998      With the Titanic, it was a plain old iceberg that did it in. But with "Deep Rising's" brand-new $487.6-million pleasure ship the Argonautica, it's immense sea serpents lurking in the depths of the South China Sea, surfacing...

Wednesday November 4, 1998      Great performances don't have to appear in great films; they don't raise everything else to their level; they can't even be counted on to make co-stars look good. All they do is astonish, which is what Ian McKellen does in...

Friday May 7, 1999      Oh, to be a young teenage boy with the prospect of "The Mummy" before him.      A silly and cartoonish remake of the 1932 horror classic starring Boris Karloff, this very modern "Mummy" has all the elements dear to the hearts...

Friday September 22, 1995      Michael Moore is a sniper whose main talent is taking potshots at conservatives, corporations and the constipated policies of the U.S. government. In "Roger & Me," his acclaimed documentary about trying to interview General...

Friday August 25, 1995      Imagine Charles Manson, possessed of supernatural powers, locked in combat with Philip Marlowe and you'll have some idea of stylish horrormeister Clive Barker's latest blood-and-guts thriller, "Lord of Illusions."      It's...