Movie Reviews

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Appaloosa explodes out of the starting gate, threatens to pull up lame but turns into a winner by a nose. Ed Harris as gun-for-hire Virgil Cole commands…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Since it appears that computers are well on their way to taking over our lives when it comes to work and play, it’s not too far-fetched to…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT As the barometric pressure drops ahead of a tropical storm poised to batter a bed and breakfast inn on an island off the North Carolina coast, the…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Something was lost in translation when the Pang Brothers decided to direct an American version of their 1999 film, "Bangkok Dangerous." Low budget looks aren’t helped by…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT This is a spoiler: There is no lake to be seen in director Neil LaBute’s domestic thriller, "Lakeview Terrace." There is, however, a swimming pool which is…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT George Cukor was considered a "woman’s director," and his handling of the tart Clare Boothe Luce play, "The Women," for the big screen in 1939 demonstrated his…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT How many people know a town like Minden, Illinois, in the new family drama, The Longshots, where the get-up-and-go got up and went years ago? Where jobs…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Do young women struggling with poor body images, serial boy problems and fitting in with the clique-du jour at school really need a role model like Shelley…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT One telling item in the director’s notes accompanying the DVD release of the original filmed version of Brideshead Revisited sums up what is so dismally wrong about…

BY MAGGIE SCOTT Packed with good-natured vulgarity and juvenile stupidity, the new comedy Step Brothers is like some perverted "Leave It to Beaver" episode. This free-wheeling parody of blended families…