COMING ATTRACTIONS.Byline: - Bob Strauss and Glenn Whip The following list of 2002 movie releases was compiled by Daily News film critics Bob Strauss and Glenn Whipp. It is as complete and accurate as could be ascertained through the weekend of May 3, when the first summer blockbuster movie, ``Spider-Man,'' comes out. After that, the year's other significant titles are listed according to the month or season they've been scheduled to appear. As always, the dates noted here are subject to change. Jan. 25 BEIJING BICYCLE: Chinese villager takes job as delivery boy, only to have prized bicycle stolen. (Sony Pictures Classics) THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes; wrongly imprisoned in the dungeons of Chateau D’If. . [Fr. Lit.: The Count of Monte Cristo, Magill I, 158–160] See : Imprisonment Count of Monte Cristo : Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling swash·buck·le intr.v. swash·buck·led, swash·buck·ling, swash·buck·les To act as a swashbuckler, as in a movie or play. [Back-formation from swashbuckler. tale is told - again. Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce cross swords for director Kevin Reynolds (``Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''). (Touchstone) JANE WHITE IS SICK & TWISTED: Midnight movie about a woman who'll do anything to prove an outrageous talk-show host is her father. Some TV actors make guest appearances. (D&K Enterprises) KUNG POW: ENTER THE FIST: The commercials for this spoof look as appetizing as week-old wonton. (20th Century Fox) MAY DAY - MAYHEM: Rollicking rol·lick·ing adj. Carefree and high-spirited; boisterous: a rollicking celebration. rol Hungarian fun about soccer and a political celebration during the communist 1950s. (Bunyik Entertainment) METROPOLIS: Not Fritz Lang's silent classic, but a Japanese anime epic along the same lines, about class struggle in a robot-dominated, retro- future city. (Sony Repertory) THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES: Reporter (Richard Gere) investigates psychic visions and sightings of winged creatures in small-town West Virginia. With Laura Linney and Debra Messing. (Screen Gems) THE SON'S ROOM: Cannes Film Festival Cannes Film Festival Film festival held annually in Cannes, France. First held in 1946 for the recognition of artistic achievement, the festival came to provide a rendezvous for those interested in the art and influence of the movies. top prize winner sounds a bit like ``In the Bedroom, Italian Style.'' Admired cinematic essayist Nanni Moretti's first fictional feature in a dozen years charts the effects of a teen-age son's death on a middle-class family. (Miramax) STORYTELLING: Director Todd Solondz (``Happiness'') returns with his upbeat take on life. (Fine Line) TRICKY LIFE: Uruguayan Oscar entry is based on a true story about a South American woman's struggle to escape from Italian prostitute traffickers. (Bavaria Film International) A WALK TO REMEMBER: Pop princess Mandy Moore learns about love - and acting - in this teen romance. (Warner Bros.) Feb. 1 AMERICAN ADOBO a·do·bo n. pl. a·do·bos A Philippine dish of marinated meat or fish seasoned with garlic, soy sauce, vinegar, and spices. [Spanish, from Old Spanish adobar, to stew : Five Filipino-American friends cope with life in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . (Outrider out·rid·er n. 1. A guide; an escort. 2. One that goes in advance; a forerunner. 3. A mounted attendant who rides in front of or beside a carriage. Films) BIRTHDAY GIRL: Ben Chaplin is a wimpy Wimpy sloppily dressed comic strip character; always “forgets” to pay for hamburgers. [Comics: “Popeye” in Horn, 657–658] See : Irresponsibility banker whose Russian mail-order bride (Nicole Kidman) comes with postage due in the form of some unsavory relatives. (Miramax) SLACKERS: Collegiate losers master the art of cheating until a geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. (``Rushmore's'' Jason Schwartzman) threatens to turn them in unless they set him up with the co-ed of his dreams. (Columbia) TIME OF FAVOR: Controversial, award-winning Israeli film about a love triangle among Orthodox army officers that's connected to a plot to retake re·take tr.v. re·took , re·tak·en , re·tak·ing, re·takes 1. To take back or again. 2. To recapture. 3. To photograph, film, or record again. n. 1. Arab sites in Jerusalem. (Kino kino the juice of certain plants, some tropical and some Australian eucalypts, used in medicine as an astringent. International) TUVALU: Nearly silent foreign film about a public pool operator's efforts to prevent his swimming facility from being paved over. (Indican indican /in·di·can/ (in´di-kan) potassium indoxyl sulfate, formed by decomposition of tryptophan in the intestines and excreted in the urine. in·di·can n. ) WAYDOWNTOWN: A bunch of young Canadians who work and live in a vast, enclosed complex of high-rises vie to see who can go the longest without ever stepping outside their controlled environment. Repeated scenes of people falling from high windows delayed this social satire's release last year. (Lot 47) Feb. 8 BIG FAT LIAR Big Fat Liar is a 2002 comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle), Paul Giamatti and Nickelodeon's Amanda Bynes Plot Jason Shephard (Frankie Muniz : Following in the footsteps of Jay and Silent Bob, ``Malcolm in the Middle's'' Frankie Muniz travels to Hollywood to sabotage the crooked producer (Paul Giamatti) who made a blockbuster movie out of one of his school essays. (Universal) COLLATERAL DAMAGE: Ah-nold kicks terrorist butt. Will we cheer or be repulsed? (Warner Bros.) LIFE AND DEBT: Documentary look at how First World economic policies devastate a developing country like Jamaica's financial and social fabric. Narrated by author Jamaica Kincaid, on whose book ``A Small Place'' it's based. ROLLERBALL: A top Internet geek tastemaker taste·mak·er n. One that determines or strongly influences current trends or styles, as in fashion or the arts. saw an early screening of this remake and hated it. Hopefully, the whole movie - about a popular future bloodsport - wasn't entirely retooled to appeal to his fanboy A male (or female if a "fangirl") who is completely devoted to a particular work. Fanboys are fiercely loyal and steadfast in their opinion. With regard to computers and technology, fanboys outnumber fangirls by a huge margin and may be enamored with particular computer platforms, MP3 aesthetic. Then again, the original wasn't all that good to start with. Starring Chris Klein, LL Cool J and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. (MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. ) SCOTLAND, PA: Another Shakespeare update. This one's ``Macbeth'' in a fast-food restaurant. In spite of that, it's said to be clever. With Christopher Walken and James LeGros. (Lot 47) SHIRI: Northern assassins infiltrate the South in this kinetic Korean political thriller. (Samuel Goldwyn Films) THE WAY WE LAUGHED: Another slice of ultra-serious social realism from Italy's Gianni Amelio (``Stolen Children,'' ``Open Doors''). Two Sicilian brothers struggle to get ahead in 1950s Turin. (New Yorker) Feb. 15 CROSSROADS: MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. Films graces us with Britney Spears' very first movie, about three childhood friends getting reacquainted on a cross-country trip. There's been no mention of snake dances. Kim Cattrall and Dan Aykroyd appear. (Paramount) HART'S WAR: Bruce Willis is the ranking American officer in a World War II POW camp who stages a court martial trial to distract the Germans from an escape attempt. With Colin Farrell and Terrence Howard. (MGM) JOHN Q: Desperate man (Denzel Washington) takes an emergency room hostage to get a transplant for his 9-year-old son. Didn't we just see this on ``ER''? (New Line) LAST ORDERS: Lifelong friends take a stroll down memory lane after one dies and leaves them to carry out his final wishes. Michael Caine, Ray Winstone, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren head the cast of the film, which had a one-week Academy qualifying run in December. (Sony Pictures Classics) LITTLE OTIK: Disturbing Czech puppet animator Jan Svankmajer (``Alice,'' ``Faust'') does a semi-live action, modern-day take on a local legend about a childless couple who raise a tree stump as their own. To each his own ... until the wooden baby gets hungry. (Zeitgeist Films) RETURN TO NEVER LAND: Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinker Bell fly again. It's a cartoon.(Disney) SUPER TROOPERS: ``Police Academy'' for the new millennium. So much for progress. (Fox Searchlight) WAKING UP IN RENO: Long-threatened romantic comedy in which two married couples (Patrick Swayze and Charlize Theron, Billy Bob Thornton and Natasha Richardson) are tempted by infidelity en route to a monster truck show. (Miramax) Feb. 20 TREMBLING BEFORE G-D: Documentary about gay Orthodox Jews. (New Yorker Films) Feb. 22 DRAGONFLY dragonfly, any insect of the order Odonata, which also includes the damselfly. Members of this order are generally large predatory insects and characteristically have chewing mouthparts and four membranous, net-veined wings; they undergo complete metamorphosis. : Kevin Costner is a doctor who thinks his dead wife is trying to contact him through his patients in this supernatural thriller directed by, of all people, Tom Shadyac (``The Nutty Professor,'' ``Ace Ventura,'' ``Patch Adams''). (Universal) GENTLEMAN BANDIT: Real-life bank robber Charlie Mattera wrote and stars in this autobiographical tale of an ex-con trying to rebuild his life in L.A. Ryan O'Neal co-stars. (Pathfinder Pictures) HOW TO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR'S DOG: Insomniac in·som·ni·ac n. One who suffers from insomnia. adj. Having or causing insomnia. playwright (Kenneth Branagh) deals with creative dry spell, confused mother-in-law (Lynn Redgrave) and wife (Robin Wright Penn) who wants a baby. And, oh yeah, that barking neighbor's dog. (Artistic License) MONSOON WEDDING: Nuptials reunite far-flung Indian family. Mira Nair (``Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'') directs. (USA) QUEEN OF THE DAMNED: Rumor was that this Anne Rice adaptation was going straight-to-video before its star, pop singer Aaliyah, died. Another reason to rue that plane crash. (Warner Bros.) THE TOWN IS QUIET: Well-regarded French film is a multicharacter mosaic of social, interpersonal and racial dysfunctions in modern-day Marseilles. (New Yorker) WENDIGO: A family vacation in upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. turns into a weekend of terror involving mad hunters and Native American spirits. (Magnolia Pictures) March 1 BARAN: Majid Majidi (``Children of Heaven'') directed this visually stunning study of Afghan refugees, as seen through a young Iranian man's eyes. (Miramax) BORSTAL BOY: Based on Irish writer Brendan Behan's time spent in an English boy's prison during World War II. (Strand Releasing) CHOP SUEY: Famed photographer and documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an also doc·u·men·ta·rist n. One that makes documentaries or a documentary. Bruce Weber turns a young wrestler into a gay modeling icon. (Zeitgeist Films) 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS: Holy Noah! Relationship-hampered Josh Hartnett vows to give up all romantic activity for Lent, and of course immediately meets the girl of his dreams (``A Knight's Tale's'' Shannyn Sossamon). Being billed as America's first no-sex comedy, evidently by people who weren't around when Doris Day was making movies. (Miramax) PROMISES: Documentary about Israeli and Palestinian kids in Jerusalem. (Cowboy Booking) SCRATCH: Documentary about hip-hop DJs. (Palm Pictures) STOLEN SUMMER: The movie that resulted from HBO's ``Project Greenlight'' contest series. Two young Chicago boys try to do something for God. (Miramax) WE WERE SOLDIERS: Mel Gibson leads the platoon (Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Barry Pepper) in this fact-based movie about the first major combat between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese army. Directed by ``Braveheart'' scripter Randall Wallace. (Paramount) March 8 ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS: Bounty hunter and bail-jumper find themselves in the middle of a diamond heist and join forces to score. Ice Cube and Mike Epps star. (New Line) BIG BAD LOVE: Alcoholic Vietnam vet (Arliss Howard) battles ex-wife (Debra Winger, Howard's real-life wife) to see his kids. (IFC (Internet Foundation Classes) A class library from Netscape that provides an application framework and graphical user interface (GUI) routines for Java programmers. IFC was later made part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). See JFC, AFC and AWT. See also ICF. ) FULL FRONTAL: The frighteningly prolific Steven Soderbergh returns to his ``sex, lies and videotape'' roots after detours onto the big canvasses of ``Traffic'' and ``Ocean's Eleven.'' Low-budget romantic roundelay roun·de·lay n. A poem or song with a regularly recurring refrain. [Middle English, alteration (influenced by lai, poem, song)of Old French rondelet, diminutive of rondel stars David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer. , Blair Underwood and introduces someone named Julia Roberts. (Miramax) PANIC ROOM: Divorced mom (Jodie Foster) and young daughter play cat-and-mouse game with thugs during a home invasion. David Fincher (``Fight Club'') directs. (Columbia) THE TIME MACHINE: H.G. Wells' classic about a Victorian inventor flung into the far (if backward) future returns, this time starring ``Memento's'' Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons. Directing credit goes to H.G.'s great-grandson, Simon Wells. (DreamWorks) TROUBLE EVERY DAY: Director Claire Denis' (``Beau Travail'') modern horror film about an unusual cerebral-sexual ailment and cannibalism cannibalism (kăn`ĭbəlĭzəm) [Span. caníbal, referring to the Carib], eating of human flesh by other humans. . It's French. (Lot 47) UNDISPUTED: Prison boxing drama with Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes Snipes (Diminutive for Snipers) is a text-mode networked computer game that was created in 1983 by SuperSet software. Snipes is officially credited as being the original inspiration for Novell NetWare. , directed by recently unlucky auteur auteur (ōtör`), in film criticism, a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or author, of the motion picture. Walter Hill (``Last Man Standing,'' ``Wild Bill''). (Miramax) March 13 KISSING JESSICA STEIN: A woman burned out by her fruitless search for Mr. Right answers a classified ad from a lesbian. Rethinking ensues. (Fox Searchlight) March 15 HARRISON'S FLOWERS: Searching for her missing photojournalist husband in a far-off land, Andie MacDowell learns some hard truths about war. Elias Koteas, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody and David Strathairn co-star. (Universal) HEAVEN: German Tom Tykwer (``Run Lola Run'') directs Australian Cate Blanchett and American Giovanni Ribisi in this Italy-set meditation on law and grace, co-written by the late Polish filmmaker Krysztof Kieslowski (``The Decalogue''). Small world, ain't it? (Miramax) ICE AGE: Computer-animated movie about a woolly mammoth, a sloth sloth (slōth, slôth), arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical forests, where they sleep, eat, and travel through the trees suspended upside down, clinging to and something called a scrat (combination of squirrel and rat) and their attempts to make some prehistoric history. (20th Century Fox) PAULINE AND PAULETTE: Bickering Brussels sisters try to make peace at a late age. (Sony Pictures Classics) RESIDENT EVIL: Michelle Rodriguez (``Girlfight'') and Milla Jovovich show that video games can be fun for girls, too, in this adaptation of a popular time-waster. It's about a commando team fighting mutants. (Screen Gems) SHOWTIME: Hardboiled detective (Robert De Niro Noun 1. Robert De Niro - United States film actor who frequently plays tough characters (born 1943) De Niro ) gets paired with wiseguy cop (Eddie Murphy) on a reality TV show. Sparks fly and hilarity ensues. (Warner Bros.) Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN: A long way from his adaptation of ``The Little Princess,'' Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's graphic study of sex and politics charts a wild weekend two inexperienced teens share with an unhappy but very accommodating older woman. ``Amores Perros' '' Gael Garcia Bernal stars. (IFC) March 19 WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP: Documentary look at the benighted be·night·ed adj. 1. Overtaken by night or darkness. 2. Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened. be·night town of Black River Falls, where all kinds of horrible and depressing things happened to the population in the 19th century. (Vitagraph) March 22 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL: Gala 20th anniversary reissue of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic, with new footage, computer-sweetened graphics and, notoriously, fewer guns. (Universal) LOLA: ``E.T.'' isn't the only notable re-release of the day. Jacques Demy's dreamy, French New Wave classic, featuring Anouk Aimee at the height of her glory as one of cinema's signature showgirls. (Wellspring well·spring n. 1. The source of a stream or spring. 2. A source: a wellspring of ideas. wellspring Noun ) NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VAN WILDER: PARTY LIAISON: Dad finally cuts off seven-year campus kingpin Van Wilder's funding, so he sets about earning his keep by planning parties. Intellectual, collegiate stuff stars Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. (Artisan) SORORITY BOYS: Desperate frat boys go the ``Bosom Buddies'' route. (Touchstone) March 29 BAY OF ANGELS: Another Jacques Demy de·my n. pl. de·mies Any of several standard sizes of paper, especially paper measuring 16 by 21 inches. [Alteration of demi-.] Nouvelle Vague classic, starring Jeanne Moreau in a transcendent tale of love and gambling. (Wellspring) BLADE 2: Wesley Snipes bares his teeth again, playing the half- man/half-vampire out to save the world from Armageddon (the apocalyptic event, not the movie ... unfortunately it's too late for that). (New Line) CLOCKSTOPPERS: Nickelodeon teen sci-fi adventure, apparently based on the old ``Twilight Zone'' episode in which a special wristwatch freezes time for everyone except its wearer. ``Star Trek's'' Jonathan Frakes directed. (Paramount) DEATH TO SMOOCHY smoochy adj (col) → blandengue smoochy adj (inf) → langoureux/euse smoochy adj [music, tape : Kiddie kid·die or kid·dy n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child TV clown (Robin Williams) gets fired in a bribery scandal and looks to exact revenge on his replacement, a sweet clown named Smoochy (Edward Norton). Danny DeVito directs. (Warner Bros.) FESTIVAL IN CANNES: Self-regarding auteur Henry Jaglom (``Eating'') applies his personal brand of schmaltzy schmaltz·y also schmalz·y adj. schmaltz·i·er, schmaltz·i·est Informal Of, relating to, or marked by excessive or maudlin sentimentality. See Synonyms at sentimental. insight to the most prestigious celebration of cinema on the planet. Maximilian Schell and Anouk Aimee are reportedly very good in it. (Paramount Classics) MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE: Reissue of insane 1975 martial arts flick, in which a blind assassin stalks a one-armed killer. (Epoch Entertainment) NO SUCH THING: A young journalist (Sarah Polley) befriends a murderous monster (Robert Burke) who has issues with evolution. Helen Mirren and Julie Christie also appear in Hal Hartley's social satire. (United Artists) THE ROOKIE: Dennis Quaid plays the real-life high school coach who rediscovers his fastball and gets a gig with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are a professional baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida, Florida. The Devil Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Devil Rays have played in Tropicana Field. . (Disney) THE SWEETEST THING: Cameron Diaz gets raunchy raun·chy adj. raun·chi·er, raun·chi·est Slang 1. a. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] as a babe chasing the man of her dreams (Thomas Jane), who skipped town after their one-night stand. Wait a minute; didn't she just do that in ``Vanilla Sky''? (Columbia) TIME OUT: Acclaimed French filmmaker Laurent Cantet (``Human Resources'') returns with another withering look at workplace politics. Make that out-of-workplace; in this one, a laid-off executive goes to drastic lengths to make his friends and relatives think he's still employed. (Think Film) March unscheduled FLEEING BY NIGHT: Taiwanese film about a theatrical love triangle in a small, 1930s Chinese twon. (Strand Releasing) 1 GIANT LEAP: Multiculti, multimedia ``we are the world''-sounding thingamajig. (Palm Pictures) April 5 THE ACCIDENTAL SPY: One of Jackie Chan's Hong Kong martial arts comedies. (Dimension) BIG TROUBLE: A nuclear bomb brings a disparate bunch of people together in Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy, which was an early casualty of 9/11. Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Tom Sizemore and Omar Epps run around in this adaptation of a Dave Barry book. (Touchstone) THE CAT'S MEOW meow see mew. : Sporadically great director Peter Bogdanovich (``The Last Picture Show'') looks at an infamous, if hushed-up, Hollywood death that involved such figures as William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst) and Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard). (Lions Gate) THE CHERRY ORCHARD: Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates star in this lush adaptation of Chekhov's classic play. (Kino International) CRUSH: Three women see their close-knit friendships unravel when one of them finds a man. (Sony Pictures Classics) GIRLS CAN'T SWIM: Teen girls meet every year on the Brittany coast. Their 15th summer proves especially memorable. (Wellspring) HIGH CRIMES: Wife (Ashley Judd) learns husband (Jim Caviezel) has shocking past and must defend him against heinous war crime. Morgan Freeman helps the cause. (20th Century Fox) MAELSTROM: French-Canadian story of high-style self-destruction; told, the notes say, by a fish. (Arrow Releasing) April 12 FRAILTY: Actor Bill Paxton (``Apollo 13'') makes his directing debut and stars in this Texas-set, serial-killer mystery. Matthew McConaughey co-stars. (Lions Gate) < GANGSTER NO. 1: British gangster film in which No. 1's number is up. At least Quentin Tarantino gave his hoods colors. (IFC) HUMAN NATURE: Obsessive scientist and female naturalist battle over an ape man. The screenplay's from Charlie Kaufman (``Being John Malkovich'') Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins star. (Fine Line Features) LONE STAR STATE OF MIND: Hayseeds look to escape their rural roots. (Screen Gems) MURDER BY NUMBERS: Sandra Bullock gets gritty in a thriller from Barbet barbet Any of about 75 species of tropical birds (family Capitonidae) named for the bristles at the base of their stout, sharp bill. They are big-headed and short-tailed, 3.5–12 in. Schroeder. (Warner Bros.) NINE QUEENS: Small-time small·time or small-time adj. Informal Insignificant or unimportant; minor: a smalltime actor. small swindlers reach for the brass ring. Argentine film has been doing well on the festival circuit. (Sony Pictures Classics) THE PIANO TEACHER: They loved this tale of a repressed music instructor's sadomasochistic sa·do·mas·o·chism n. The combination of sadism and masochism, in particular the deriving of pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting or submitting to physical or emotional abuse. affair with one of her students at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed in Vienna by an Austrian, but starring France's grand mistress of erotic experimentation, Isabelle Huppert. (Kino International) RAIN: A beachside beach·side adj. Situated on or along a beach. vacation turns into an intra-family battle of sexual intrigue and discovery in this New Zealand drama. (Fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to Pictures) THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: Adaptation of a 1732 play stars Mira Sorvino as a princess in love with a young philosophy student. Trouble is, the philosopher and his sister (Ben Kingsley and Fiona Shaw) don't permit any monkey business. (Paramount Classics) April 19 PEPE LE MOKO For the form of Māori tattooing, see . For the bronze drum found in Indonesia, see . For the smart phone project, see . In the mythology of Mangaia in the Cook Islands, Moko is a wily character and grandfather of the heroic Ngaru. (Gill 1876:234). : Reissue of France's 1937, Algeria-set crime classic, with the incomparable Jean Gabin as our escort through the Casbah. (Rialto Pictures) THE SALTON SEA: Val Kilmer goes looking for the man who murdered his wife and - surprise - finds trouble instead. (Warner Bros.) THE SCORPION KING: WWF's the Rock reprises his role from ``The Mummy Returns'' in this prequel pre·quel n. A literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel. [pre- + (se)quel.] , set 5,000 years in the past. He helps unite desert tribes against the evil ruler of Gomorrah. Yeah, but does he say anything this time? Executive produced by - who else? - Vince McMahon. (Universal) April 26 CITY BY THE SEA: Robert De Niro plays a homicide detective forced to confront the sins of his past when his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. son is suspected of murder. (Warner Bros.) DEUCES WILD: Gang problems in Brooklyn, circa 1958. No wonder the Dodgers left town. Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Frankie Muniz and Johnny Knoxville get ready to rumble. (United Artists) DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS: Documentary about 1970s skateboarders. (Sony Pictures Classics) FRANK McKLUSKY, C.I.: ``C.I.'' stands for ``claims investigator,'' which Frank does for a living. ``C.I.'' also stands for ``choice idiocy IDIOCY, med. jur. That condition of mind, in which the reflective, or all or a part of the affective powers, are either entirely wanting, or are manifested to the least possible extent. 2. Idiocy generally depends upon organic defects. ,'' which this movie aspires to. (Touchstone) IN PRAISE OF LOVE: Jean-Luc Godard's latest incomprehensible plunge into theoretical cinema. We hear the aging New Wave enfant terrible makes fun of Steven Spielberg, at least. (Manhattan Pictures) LIFE OR SOMETHING LIKE IT: Angelina Jolie plays a TV reporter who's told by a homeless man that she has one week to live. She decides to make it a good one. (20th Century Fox) THE MYSTIC MASSEUR masseur /mas·seur/ (mah-sur´) [Fr.] 1. a man who performs massage. 2. an instrument for performing massage. : Ismail Merchant, who usually does producing duty for his partner James Ivory, directed this adaptation of Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's story about the Asian Indian community in Trinidad. Such top British actors as Om Puri, Jimi Mistry and James Fox participate. (Think Film) April unscheduled CHANGING LANES: A minor auto accident escalates into a full-blown contest of wills. Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. , William Hurt and Amanda Peet star. (Paramount) LUCKY BREAK: Musical prison escape comedy from ``Full Monty'' director Peter Cattaneo. (Paramount) THERE'S ONLY ONE JIMMY GRIMBLE: A magic pair of boots enables a stage-frightened English boy to become a star soccer player. But there's a price to be paid in this uplifting comedy starring ``Sexy Beast's'' Ray Winstone and ``The Full Monty's'' Robert Carlyle. (Strand Releasing) WORLD TRAVELER: A guy leaves his family for a cross-country odyssey, encounters various women along the way. Billy Crudup, Julianne Moore. (Think Films) May 3 THE CHATEAU: American brothers inherit French property and battle snooty servants. (IFC) CHELSEA WALLS: Ethan Hawke directed a number of close associates, including wife Uma Thurman, in this multicharacter check into Manhattan's storied Chelsea Hotel, sometime home of great artists and more permanent fleatrap for those who just imagine that they are. (Lions Gate) CQ: Onset romance interferes with the shooting of a movie in 1969 Paris. Jeremy Davies (``Saving Private Ryan'') stars opposite an eclectic supporting cast that includes Gerard Depardieu, Giancarlo Giannini, John Phillip Law, Jason Schwartzman and Dean Stockwell. A Coppola directed. (United Artists) HOLLYWOOD ENDING: Woody Allen's latest, self-starring comedy. The cast, relatively downscale To resize lower or convert down. See scale, downsample and downconvert. for an Allen film, features George Hamilton, Tea Leoni, Debra Messing and Treat Williams. (DreamWorks) SPIDER-MAN: Peter Parker steps into the superhero su·per·he·ro n. pl. su·per·he·roes A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. void left by Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent. Tobey Maguire plays Spidey; Willem Dafoe is his nemesis, the Green Goblin. Sam Raimi directs. (Columbia) May ABOUT A BOY: ``American Pie'' brothers Paul and Chris Weitz directed this latest adaptation of a book by ``High Fidelity'' author Nick Hornby. Hugh Grant stars as a bachelor who fakes having children in order to meet available women, then finds himself dealing with a real troubled kid. (Universal) THE BELIEVER: Sundance Film Festival favorite, commercial distribution hot potato about a young Jewish man (Ryan Gosling) who joins a neo-Nazi hate group. Performances are supposed to be great; philosophy is reportedly, well, challenging. (Fireworks Pictures) ENOUGH: ``Sleeping With the Enemy'' knockoff knock·off n. Informal An unauthorized copy or imitation, as of designer clothing: "the place to go for quality knockoffs" Women's Wear Daily. Noun 1. with Jennifer Lopez playing the victimized woman who finally says, ``Enough!'' (Columbia) INSOMNIA: Al Pacino goes to Alaska to investigate the murder of a teen-age girl. His primary suspect is played by ... Robin Williams (!) Chris Nolan (``Memento'') directs. (Warner Bros.) STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES: If the movie is as good as its title, then, um, be afraid. Very, very afraid. (20th Century Fox) UNFAITHFUL: Diane Lane plays the wife embodying the movie's title; Richard Gere is the wounded husband, and Adrian Lyne (``Indecent Proposal'') is the director, so you know there will be plenty of empty- headed, soft-core eroticism Eroticism Aphrodite novel of Alexandrian manners by Pierre Louys. [Fr. Lit.: Benét, 783] Ars Amatoria Ovid’s treatise on lovemaking. [Rom. Lit. . (20th Century Fox). ZU WARRIORS: ``Crouching Tiger's'' Zhang Ziyi headlines this martial arts fantasy by Hong Kong's best, director Tsui Hark and stunt coordinator Yuen Wo-ping. (Miramax) Spring unscheduled INVINCIBLE: Jewish blacksmith travels to 1930s Berlin to join a cabaret as ``world's strongest man.'' Nazis don't appreciate his act. (Fine Line) THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE: Perpetually tan Hollywood producer Robert Evans narrates his life's story. Like he would let anyone else do it. (USA) June BAD COMPANY: Delayed terrorist comedy starring Anthony Hopkins and Chris Rock as a couple of mismatched CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). agents trying to negotiate a weapons deal. (Touchstone) THE CROCODILE HUNTER: Cable's favorite Australian nature boy, Steve Irwin, tries to save another big amphibian amphibian, in zoology amphibian, in zoology, cold-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Amphibia. There are three living orders of amphibians: the frogs and toads (order Anura, or Salientia), the salamanders and newts (order Urodela, or Caudata), and the from poachers - unaware that they're actually American CIA agents after the croc. (MGM) LALO & STITCH: Disney's animated summer entry tells the story of a young girl's close encounter with a cute extraterrestrial. For those who missed ``E.T.,'' either the first time around or in its March reissue. (Disney) MINORITY REPORT: Steven Spielberg delves into dark sci-fi again with this adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's story about a futuristic society where police arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crimes. Tom Cruise plays the head of this psychic unit and must cope with the fallout when the premonitions point the finger at him. (20th Century Fox) MR. DEEDS: Goofball goof·ball or goof ball n. A barbiturate or tranquilizer in the form of a pill, especially when taken for nonmedical purposes. inherits a fortune, must protect it from Winona Ryder in this remake of the Capra classic. It's the first of three (!) Adam Sandler movies this year. (Columbia) POSSESSION: Long-delayed film from Neil LaBute (``Nurse Betty'') about a couple of scholars (LaBute regular Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow) who fall in love while investigating a secret affair between two Victorian writers. (USA) SCOOBY-DOO: Ruh-roh. With Sarah Michelle Gellar Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as the fictional character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. and Freddie Prinze Jr. (Warner Bros.) SKINS: ``Smoke Signals'' director Chris Eyre returns with this reservation story about a tribal police officer and his alcoholic brother. (First Look) SUNSHINE STATE: Edie Falco and Angela Bassett play two vibrant women who return to small-town Florida after their dreams fail in this multigenerational mul·ti·gen·er·a·tion·al adj. Of or relating to several generations: multigenerational family traditions. drama from John Sayles. (Sony Pictures Classics) THE TUXEDO: Chauffeur Jackie Chan is turned into a secret agent when he tries on his boss' ultra-special duds. With Jennifer Love Hewitt. (DreamWorks) WINDTALKERS: ``Face/Off's'' Nicolas Cage and director John Woo reteam for this World War II drama about Navajo code talkers in the Pacific during the brutal Battle of Saipan The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June 1944 to 9 July 1944. The American 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions and 27th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant General Holland Smith . (MGM) July AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER: Yeah, baby? Well, at least Mini-Me is back. But then, so is Fat Bastard. (New Line) COUNTRY BEARS: The bears sing no more at Disneyland; if that upsets you, go see the movie and maybe they'll reopen the attraction. If you're really upset, boycott. But then, you'd be missing all them good John Hiatt songs. (Disney) DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a novel written by Rebecca Wells. It is the sequel to Little Altars Everywhere. Unlike its predecessor, which is a series of short stories, Divine Secrets is a novel. : Southern gals gab and look for the meaning of life in this adaptation of the Rebecca Wells best seller. Sandra Bullock heads the cast. (Warner Bros.) GANGS OF NEW YORK: Martin Scorsese's delayed epic about Irish organized crime in the 1860s stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz and some mighty funny-looking garments. Even if it doesn't work, we can't wait to see how. (Miramax) K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER: Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson star in this fact-based story about a Soviet nuclear sub commander's tough choices when a meltdown on his boat threatens to trigger World War III World War III (abbreviated WWIII), or the Third World War, is a term used to describe a hypothetical conflict on the scale of World War I and World War II, or even larger, such as a nuclear holocaust. . (Paramount) MEN IN BLACK II: Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones For the musician, see . Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. Biography Early life Jones was born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Clyde C. don their sunglasses again to save the universe and director Barry Sonnenfeld's career. (Columbia) POWERPUFF GIRLS: THE MOVIE: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere. make the leap from the Cartoon Network to the big screen to once again battle the evil monkey, Mojo Jojo. (Warner Bros.) REIGN OF FIRE Reign of Fire can refer to:
ROAD TO PERDITION: Hmmm. Just why did they put off the release of this period hit-man drama from last year's holiday season? It stars Tom Hanks, co-stars Paul Newman and Jude Law, and was directed by ``American Beauty's'' Sam Mendes. Even if it doesn't work, we can't wait to see how. (DreamWorks) STUART Stuart, British royal family Stuart or Stewart, royal family that ruled Scotland and England. The Stuart lineage began in a family of hereditary stewards of Scotland, the earliest of whom was Walter (d. LITTLE 2: Or, how to build a better mousetrap "Build a Better Mousetrap" is the 15th episode of season two of the television sitcom Married... with Children.
A mouse finds its way into the Bundy home. . (Columbia) August THE BANGER SISTERS: Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon play onetime supergroupies who reunite in middle age. (Fox Searchlight) BLOOD WORK: Clint Eastwood directs himself in this story of an FBI profiler brought out of retirement to track a serial killer. Rumor has it this could be Clint's last go-round. (Warner Bros.) RING: No hobbits In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. They first appear in The Hobbit and play an important role in the The Lord of the Rings story. This is a list of hobbits that are mentioned by name in Tolkien's works. here, but ``Mulholland Drive'' discovery Naomi Watts should be sufficiently intriguing in this American version of the alarming Japanese suspense-game. (DreamWorks) SIGNS: M. Night Shyamalan Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan (born August 6, 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, /'ʃæ.mæ.lɔːn (``The Sixth Sense'') returns with this thriller about a man (Mel Gibson) looking for the meaning of those mysterious crop circles. (Touchstone) SPY KIDS 2: Sequel to the one truly clever children's movie of 2001. Robert Rodriguez directs again. (Dimension) VIEW FROM THE TOP: Gwyneth Paltrow will do anything to become the best flight attendant in the world. It's a comedy. (Miramax) XXX: Vin Diesel reteams with ``Fast and Furious'' director Rob Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , playing an extreme sports athlete recruited for spy work. Sam Jackson co-stars in lieu of a ``Shaft'' sequel. (Columbia) Summer 8 MILE: Shock-rapper Eminem's movie starring debut, about (big surprise) a Detroit loser's struggle to make something of his life. But before you dismiss the whole project out of hand, note that it's directed by the estimable es·ti·ma·ble adj. 1. Possible to estimate: estimable assets; an estimable distance. 2. Deserving of esteem; admirable: an estimable young professor. Curtis Hanson of ``L.A. Confidential'' and ``Wonder Boys'' fame. (Universal) THE SUM OF ALL FEARS: A double dose of dread accompanies this latest Tom Clancy techno-thriller. Not only is Jack Ryan being played by the relatively callow Ben Affleck, but scenes of a major terrorist attack are reportedly freaking freak·ing adv. & adj. Slang Used as an intensive: Traffic was a freaking nightmare. [Alteration of frigging, present participle of frig.] out test audiences. Morgan Freeman co-stars. (Paramount) September DARK BLUE: Ron Shelton, usually known for directing superior sports comedies, and David Ayer, who wrote ``Training Day,'' team up on a noirish L.A. police procedural set in the days leading up to 1992's Rodney King verdict riots. (United Artists) GODS AND GENERALS: Prequel to ``Gettysburg'' tracks the early years of the Civil War. Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Sissy Spacek and Mira Sorvino head the cast in this sweeping epic. (Warner Bros.) October FRIDA: Salma Hayek's labor-of-love biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] about the famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Alfred Molina plays her mural-painting husband Diego Rivera. Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas and Geoffrey Rush also appear. (Miramax) RIPLEY'S GAME: Tom Ripley's back, but Matt Damon isn't. This, the third book in Patricia Highsmith's series, follows Ripley (John Malkovich) in modern Italy as he concocts his special brand of revenge for silly socialites. (Fine Line) WHITE OLEANDER oleander: see dogbane. oleander Any of the ornamental evergreen shrubs of the genus Nerium (dogbane family), which have poisonous milky juice. Numerous varieties of flower colour in the common oleander, or rosebay (N. : Teen girl drifts after mom (Michelle Pfeiffer) commits a crime of passion. Based on the novel by Janet Fitch. (Warner Bros.) November ADAM SANDLER'S 8 CRAZY NIGHTS: For those who can't get their fill of Sandler, he returns in an animated musical comedy, giving voice to not one, but three, characters. (Columbia) BOND 20: The 20th official installment of the 40-year-old spy film franchise. Pierce Brosnan reactivateshis licence to kill. Halle Berry plays the bad girl. (MGM) CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND: George Clooney makes his feature-directing debut with this adaptation of game-show creator Chuck Barris' tall-tale memoir. Sam Rockwell is the ``Gong Show'' host/secret government assassin. Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts and Clooney himself make appearances. (Miramax) HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS: Magical tots confront the dark side of the force, not to mention Chris Columbus' earnest direction. (Warner Bros.) I SPY: Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson go the Cosby-Culp route, proving that nothing was learned by watching feature versions of ``The Avengers'' and ``Wild Wild West.'' (Columbia) THE SANTA CLAUSE 2: THE MRS MRS - Modifiable Representation System. An integration of logic programming into Lisp. ["A Modifiable Representation System", M. Genesereth et al, HPP 80-22, CS Dept Stanford U 1980]. . CLAUSE: Ho, ho, hell. (Disney) UNITLED ANTWONE FISHER PROJECT: This is the famous, autobiographcial screenplay by a studio security guard that got made into a movie. Denzel Washington makes his directorial debut and co-stars as the Navy psychiatrist who helps a troubled young recruit cope with life. Autumn ADAPTATION: OK, pay attention. ``Being John Malkovich'' screenwriter Charlie Kaufman wrote this movie about a self-loathing L.A. screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman who's bedeviled by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading brother. (Nicolas Cage plays both brothers.) The credits list Kaufman's brother, ``Donald,'' as co-writer, only Kaufman doesn't have a brother. ``Malkovich'' director Spike Jonze directs, a perfect choice for the bizarro This article is about the fictional character. For other uses, see bizarro (disambiguation). Bizarro is a fictional character, a doppelgänger of DC Comics’ Superman. movie of the year - which, wonderfully, features Meryl Streep as a co-star. (Columbia) ALL OR NOTHING: Another ultra-improvised, working-class family drama from Britain's acclaimed Mike Leigh (``Topsy-Turvy,'' ``Secrets & Lies,'' ``Naked''). (United Artists) ANALYZE THAT: More De Niro, this time in the familiar role opposite Billy Crystal. Watch the barbs and bullets fly. (Warner Bros.) THE FARM: CIA bigshot (Al Pacino) recruits smart college student (Colin Farrell) with decidedly mixed results. (Touchstone) GOODBYE HELLO: Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Holly Hunter and newcomer Jake Gyllenhaal star in a drama about marriage and family. (Touchstone) THE HOURS: Michael Cunningham's Virginia Woolf-centric best seller gets the all-star treatment with Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman as three very different women who are affected by the author's ``Mrs. Dalloway.'' Stephen Daldry (``Billy Elliot'') directs. (Paramount) THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE: Alan Parker directs Kevin Spacey spac·ey adj. Slang Variant of spacy. Adj. 1. spacey - stupefied by (or as if by) some narcotic drug spaced-out, spacy unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles" as an anti-death penalty activist who's convicted of murdering a colleague. With Kate Winslet and Laura Linney. (Universal) ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO: Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez returns to El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), the slinger of guns and guitars, who, this time is after a drug cartel kingpin. It's the final installment of the Mariachi/Desperado trilogy. (Columbia) ONE HOUR PHOTO: The dark makeover of Robin Williams climaxes with this tale of a lonely photo developer who obsessively intrudes on a family of customers. Yes, it sounds like another whatever-from-hell movie, but it just got great response at the Sundance Film Festival. (Fox Searchlight) PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON UNTITLED: A ``sweet romantic comedy'' from the maker of ``Magnolia'' about the owner of a struggling phone-sex business who's being chased by three thugs. Eventually his hobby of collecting pudding coupons pays off, and he's able to win enough frequent-flier miles to take a trip to Hawaii, evade the thugs and meet a mysterious girl. Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star. Whether the sky will rain frogs is anyone's guess. (Columbia) SHANGHAI KNIGHTS: Sequel to ``Shanghai Noon'' ... but darker. (Touchstone) SWEET HOME ALABAMA Sweet Home Alabama (song) : New York fashion designer (Reese Witherspoon) snags city's most eligible bachelor. Nuptials go askew when redneck husband from Dixie shows up. (Touchstone) SWEPT AWAY: Remake of Lina Wertmuller's classic class-conflict sex comedy. Guy Ritchie (``Snatch'') directs his wife, Madonna. You've been warned. (Columbia) THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE: ``Silence of the Lambs'' director Jonathan Demme returns to the suspense genre, sort of, with this remake of Stanley Donen's frothy romantic thriller ``Charade.'' Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton take the Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn parts in the Paris-set romp. (Universal) THE YOUNG BLACK STALLION: Prequel to the 1979 thoroughbred; this time it's in IMAX IMAX Noun a film projection process that produces an image ten times larger than standard . (Disney) Holiday CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: Steven Spielberg directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in this true-life tale of a precocious young bank robber who successfully pretended, at various times, to be a doctor, an attorney and an airline pilot. (DreamWorks) CHAMBERMAID: Jennifer Lopez does ``The Nanny.'' We'll only watch if she wears one of those frilly frill n. 1. A ruffled, gathered, or pleated border or projection, such as a fabric edge used to trim clothing or a curled paper strip for decorating the end of the bone of a piece of meat. 2. French maid outfits. (Columbia) CHICAGO: It's taken a long time for the award-winning stage musical to make it to the movies, but here it finally comes. Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the Jazz Age dames run up on murder raps, and Richard Gere is the supersmooth lawyer. (Miramax) CINDERELLA MAN: Pugnacious pug·na·cious adj. Combative in nature; belligerent. See Synonyms at belligerent. [From Latin pugn Russell Crowe collaborates with cuddly ``Chocolat'' director Lasse a. & adv. 1. Less. Hallstrom for this story about real-life, Depression-era Rocky figure Jimmy Braddock, who fought his way from chump to a bout with the champ, Max Baer. (Universal) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS: A sequel that we actually want to see? Unbelievable. We won't even make fun of the geeks who line up early for this one. (New Line) PINOCCHIO: Roberto Benigni continues his search for life's beauty in this live-action adaptation of the famous Italian fairy tale. (Miramax) RED DRAGON: Anthony Hopkins plays a younger Hannibal Lecter in this ``Silence of the Lambs'' prequel, previously made as Michael Mann's ``Manhunter.'' Brett Ratner, the ``Rush Hour'' guy, directs this one. We won't make the obvious joke about some people's eyes being bigger than their stomachs. With Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson and Philip Seymour Hoffman For other persons named Philip Hoffman, see Philip Hoffman (disambiguation). Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Biography Early life Hoffman was born in Fairport, New York to Gordon S. . (Universal) STAR TREK: NEMESIS: Another ``Next Generation'' space adventure. This is an even-numbered sequel, and they are traditionally the better ones. (Paramount) TREASURE PLANET: Disney animated tale takes ``Treasure Island'' and transports it into a parallel universe of supernovas, black holes and cyborgs. (Disney) UNTITLED SANDRA BULLOCK/HUGH GRANT PROJECT: And guess what ... it's a romantic comedy. (Warner Bros.) THE WILD THORNBERRYS: The annual big-screen adventure of a popular Nickelodeon cartoon series. In this one, Eliza learns how to talk to the animals. (Paramount) Undated ABOUT SCHMIDT: Jack Nicholson plays a man set adrift by his wife's sudden death. He ends up taking a trip in a Winnebago to attend his daughter's wedding, writing letters to a Tanzanian boy along the way. If the plot sounds a little odd, consider the source: director Alexander Payne and his writing partner, Jim Taylor, the team behind ``Election.'' But even if it doesn't work, we can't wait to see how. (New Line) JASON X: Jason is the never-say-die anti-hero anti-hero, principal character of a modern literary or dramatic work who lacks the attributes of the traditional protagonist or hero. The anti-hero's lack of courage, honesty, or grace, his weaknesses and confusion, often reflect modern man's ambivalence toward you've come to know from the nine previous ``Friday the 13th'' movies. ``X'' hopefully marks the spot where the series will end. (New Line) SIMONE: Hollywood producer (Al Pacino) creates the first totally believable synthetic actress. And here we thought Sharon Stone had already blazed that trail. (New Line) CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) and Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) return in ``Austin Powers in Goldmember,'' coming in July. |
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