| Vol XXXV No. 28 |
Thursday, October 4, 2001 |
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`Word' says more than your average thriller
By JUDE SEYMOUR
Scene Movie Critic
 Movies within the kidnapping genre often try to play up tension while their plots meander in predictability and their endings gleam with happiness. The genre is limited by two of Hollywood's oldest conventions: The kidnappers must be brought to justice and ... [more]
Stiller struts his comedic stuff in `Zoolander'
By MARIO BIRD
Scene Movie Critic
Ben Stiller has carved out a niche in Hollywood with incredibility. In prior films, audiences watched in disbelief as Stiller's everyman character met with not just hardship, but incredible hardship. A sort of incredibility-meter rises as Stiller's scenarios transform from mildly ... [more]
Mexico unleashes `Perros'
By MATT NANIA
Scene Movie Editor
When "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film last year, it beat, among other contenders, the Mexican film "Amores Perros." But this astounding directorial debut by Alejandro Inarritu hasn't gone uncelebrated. It's carried off a bunch ... [more]
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