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Byline: John Monaghan DETROIT _ John Travolta can't see the hand before his face, but he can feel the heat. He thinks he hears someone to his right, though it […]

Byline: John Monaghan When a pair of numbskulls agree to marry spinster sisters three times their age, they figure it's a matter of time before their plan pays off. "A […]

Byline: John Monaghan Look beneath about four tons of grizzled beard and you'll find Burt Reynolds as an ancient mountain man. But you'll have to look even deeper for something […]

Byline: John Monaghan Joe Camp likely had good intentions when he decided to bring Benji, the lovable movie mutt he introduced in 1974, back from the dead. An obvious animal […]

Byline: John Monaghan As Spike Lee talks, he keeps his feet squarely on the ground, his body bent forward, his eyes seemingly focused on nothing much in particular. But once […]

Byline: John Monaghan So what do you do when Pikachu has lost his mojo? How do you keep the kids you hooked on Pokemon in the market as they inch […]

Byline: John Monaghan After a pair of comic misfires since catching our attention in "8 Mile," Brittany Murphy has finally landed a movie that is worth her time and talent. […]

Byline: John Monaghan There was always something creepy-cool about the 1960s "Thunderbirds" TV show, in which a family of elaborate marionettes in toy spacecrafts routinely saved the world from natural […]

Byline: John Monaghan It has been a whole week since Hollywood delivered a teen movie about a plain Jane who snags her Prince Charming. So what makes "A Cinderella Story" […]

Byline: John Monaghan You can tell your 14-year-old daughter that getting the prime seat in the high school lunchroom isn't that big of a deal; that the boy she has […]

Byline: John Monaghan Through its profiles of marathon runners with cerebral palsy, guitar-plucking farmers and blind mountain climbers, "America's Heart & Soul" is supposed to be an inspirational view of […]

Byline: John Monaghan With "Scary Movie" and its first sequel, the Wayans brothers crafted a popular combination of slasher and slapstick conventions. Only the horror remains in their new project, […]

Byline: John Monaghan The biggest complaint against Michael Todd's 1956 Oscar winner "Around the World in 80 Days" is that it's more a Cinerama-style travelog than a rip-roaring adventure. The […]

Byline: John Monaghan Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock began with a few simple rules. He would ingest nothing but food and beverages purchased from McDonald's for 30 days straight. He would try […]

Byline: John Monaghan Jim Caviezel has been making movies for the last decade, starring in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and the Oscar-nominated "The Thin Red Line." But it all […]

Byline: John Monaghan A middle school "Mission: Impossible"? "The Italian Job" for the SpaghettiOs set? However you spin it, "Catch That Kid" is a misguided attempt at creating an adult-style […]

Byline: John Monaghan "Teacher's Pet" is a one-joke movie based on a one-joke Disney TV show about a blue cartoon dog named Spot who masquerades as a typical fourth-grader. Here, […]

Byline: John Monaghan While movies like "Kundun" and "Seven Years in Tibet" have struggled to depict the majesty of the ancient Himalayan culture, there's nothing like the truth. And that's […]

Byline: John Monaghan The creators of Disney's 'The Haunted Mansion' movie make sure to include the things we all remember from the theme park attraction on which it's based: waltzing […]

Byline: John Monaghan Since it began in 2000, the goal of Michigan's ACCESS Film Festival has been to present a more complete picture of the Arab world than what is […]

Byline: John Monaghan Sex. Drugs. Larceny. Self-mutilation. When most adults see "Thirteen," they can barely comprehend the extent that its heroine lets her young life spin out of control. Yet […]

Byline: John Monaghan Jamie Lee Curtis didn't have time to think when she was offered the mixed-up mother role in "Freaky Friday." She got the call last September, during a […]

Byline: John Monaghan He can still picture the balls bouncing over the audience, flaming ceiling timbers falling on a hapless Vincent Price, the eerie close-ups of wax faces appearing to […]

Byline: John Monaghan 1952: "Bwana Devil." This low-budget, black-and-white thriller about lions attacking a railroad crew launched the 3-D craze. 1953: "House of Wax." Vincent Price played the mad sculptor […]

Byline: John Monaghan DETROIT _ Louis Sachar has enjoyed almost cult-like success with his 1998 book "Holes." It has been published in 30 countries, won a Newbery Medal and is […]

Byline: John Monaghan "House of 1000 Corpses" is rock star Rob Zombie's homage to splatter films of the 1970s, specifically "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Last House on the Left." Every […]

Byline: John Monaghan DETROIT _ Star Derek Luke had never even sat on a motorcycle before he started filming "Biker Boyz," a new action drama about the world of motorcycle […]

"Pokemon 4Ever" only seems that long. Even the least discriminating kids will recognize how routine these annual big-screen outings based on the popular trading cards have become. Parents beware; this […]

"Pandora's Box" is a sequel of sorts to 2000's "Trois," the low-budget melodrama about a menage a trois turned deadly that ranks as that year's guiltiest pleasure. There are few […]

DETROIT _It's a half-hour before game time, and Jackie Chan still needs practice. Earlier in the week, at a Texas Rangers baseball game in Arlington, his honorary first pitch lost […]

Even without the number of real-life child abductions in the media lately, "Trapped" would be extremely disturbing. Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love play a couple who are career kidnappers, and […]

Another Internet enterprise gone sour, "Feardotcom" is the kind of horror movie where victims are warned time and again not to put themselves in obvious danger. Do not, repeat, do […]

'Time Traveler' could pass as either a Paleontology 101 textbook or an autobiography of one of the world's foremost paleontologists or both. Call it both, but it is so much […]

For some, the mere thought of seeing rappers Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre together on screen would be reason enough to see it. For the rest of us, who still […]

Chris Kattan is the rubber band man, his hyperkinetic antics perhaps the only reason to tune into "Saturday Night Live." But please, oh please, don't let him star in any […]

A bigger budget only means Michael York has better-quality scenery to chew in "Megiddo," the sequel to the 1999 evangelical Christian thriller "The Omega Code." The first movie was a […]