Vin Diesel is back, four years after originating the role that made him an up-and-coming action hero. He plays Riddick; a loner, Dottie, a rebel. He's a simple man, like Pee-Wee Herman, who is not concerned with getting the girl. But, unlike Pee-Wee, poor Riddick doesn't even have a bicycle for ...

It isn't very often that a movie physically affects how I feel while watching it. During the last half hour of "Titanic," I started shivering because I got so cold. While watching Gaspar Noe's shocking "I Stand Alone," my stomach was knotted in anticipation of whatever horrible scene was coming ...

SETTING: NEARLY EMPTY COMEDY CLUB, ONE GRIZZLED STAND-UP VETERAN ON STAGE_"Airlines are so tight-assed these days. What would it be like if a black man ran his own airline? That's what I'd like to see. They wouldn't be serving you salted nuts, that's for sure. It'd be more like: "Here's your ...

Imagine it is Election Day in America in the year 2000. After watching the news that evening, Al Gore is declared the projected winner and you go to bed early so you can get up for work the next morning. Only that evening, you suffer a coma-inducing stroke. You wake up ten months later to find ...

Stephen Sommers has discovered a formula that works. In 1999, he wrote and directed an updated and seriously re-vamped version of Universal Studios' 1932 horror classic "The Mummy." It opened to huge box office, and was one of the biggest movies that summer. His knack for lots of CGI special ...

_The following transcription is taken from a conversation that took place in my friend Cameron's van last night, after driving back from the screening of "[Envy][1]."_**Cameron:** What a waste. I thought any movie with Jack Black and Ben Stiller just had to be hilarious!**Eric:** The first ...