Jerry Goldsmith

Classical composer Eric Zeisl had a tough time living in mid-20th century Los Angeles. The somber, heavy-browed Austrian, who left Nazi-dominated Europe in 1938, stated that the two things he hated most in this world were Hitler and the sun. He was...

Friday January 30, 1998      With the Titanic, it was a plain old iceberg that did it in. But with "Deep Rising's" brand-new $487.6-million pleasure ship the Argonautica, it's immense sea serpents lurking in the depths of the South China Sea, surfacing...

Friday March 6, 1998      Warner Bros., which probably knows what it feels like to be persecuted and unloved (especially after a year like last year), has put its waning hopes and diminished expectations behind traditional values--one, at any rate:...

Friday July 25, 1997      No, Harrison Ford isn't the president, not even a candidate for the job, but given the chance, who wouldn't vote for him in a Beltway minute? A hero with a human face, Ford projects both rectitude and concern while playing...

Friday September 26, 1997      Few movie spectacles are more satisfying than great performers playing deadly rivals, than natural-born antagonists going at it fang and claw, so to speak. "The Edge" has such a rivalry going, but it's not quite what you...

Friday July 10, 1998      "Small Soldiers" is a little boy's fantasy of toys come to life. And like small boys it is often charming and funny, occasionally malicious, and finally too focused on gizmos and effects for its own good.      What if,...

Friday September 19, 1997      Fascinated by the spectacle of fallible men and fallen women trapped in a corrupt and heartless world that's too cold to care, filmmakers in every generation have never stopped reinventing film noir. From 1940s classics...

Friday December 11, 1998      No disrespect intended to the proud Son'a people but, hey, where are the Borg when you need them?      It was the terrifying and thoroughly alien Borg who made the last "Star Trek" film, "First Contact," one of the best...

Friday August 27, 1999      Movies like "The 13th Warrior" aren't meant for prime-time consumption. You should shove them into your system on a Saturday afternoon, the way you gobble a hot dog at a ballpark. Thinking too much about the contents will ruin...

Friday May 7, 1999      Oh, to be a young teenage boy with the prospect of "The Mummy" before him.      A silly and cartoonish remake of the 1932 horror classic starring Boris Karloff, this very modern "Mummy" has all the elements dear to the hearts...

Friday July 23, 1999      "The Haunting" is such a feeble frightfest that even its characters seem irked at it. "You brought us here to scare us, is that it?" is the disbelieving reaction of the lovely Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sentiment that people...

Friday August 4, 2000      Like a demented salesman, invisible man Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) keeps trying to convince us of the virtues of not being seen. "You have no idea how much fun this is," he says, adding later, "You have no idea what it's...