This &#39;Hero&#39; really kicks
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From China, courtey of Quentin Tarantino, comes a colorful martial-arts spectacle starring three very cool actors. By Robert Horton.
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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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``Presented by Quentin Tarantino,&#39;&#39; Zhang Yimou&#39;s long-delayed ``Hero&#39;&#39; often seems less like filmmaking than sorcery.
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A mighty wind blows through Yimou Zhang&#39;s martial arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; filling the air with dust, ruffling the curtains, setting the candle flames asputter, and blissfully sending Maggie Cheung&#39;s raven hair afly in the sunlight.
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LOS ANGELES Jet Li&#39;s martial-arts epic &quot;Hero&quot; fought off the competition to top the weekend box office. &quot;Hero,&quot; which was nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award for 2002, took in 17-point-eight (m) million dollars.
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After 2 years&#39; long wait, the Zhang Yimou movie &quot;Hero&quot; has nabbed the chance to make its debut in US. Featuring Chinese martial art and ancient love story, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung, star the movie.
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In another era, say as far back as the pre-BALCO days, it would have been a wonderful moment. The host country&#39;s new hero, a rising star, sets an Olympic
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A high voltage entertainer with good performances from Darshan and Navya Nair. Music is the highlight of this Kannada entertainer. Worth a watch.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Brooke Ellison&#39;s true-life story would be extraordinary no matter who was telling it. Here it is in masterful hands. Christopher Reeve directed what would be his final completed project before his death.
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Mira Nair's film grabbed the audience from the first frame.
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The actor-director delivers another soul-stirring film.
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Hamsalekha's rocking music, pleasing visuals and competent performances from newcomers Yashas and Meghana all make this a neat film.
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Sivaji does not disappoint but neither does it completely sweep you off your feet. It is a fun and colourful movie, with a human touch.
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The women of &quot;X-Men: The Last Stand&quot; can kick your butt.
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Director Taylor Hackford has made one good movie (1982&#39;s &quot;An Officer and a Gentleman&quot;) and a lot of bad ones (recently, &quot;The Devil&#39;s Advocate,&quot; &quot;Proof of Life&quot;).
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Movie version of the stage production deserves to be seen on a big screen - don&#39;t wait for the DVD. And Emmy Rossum is perfectly cast as Christine.