Jerry Goldsmith

Friday April 6, 2001      There are both mysteries and surprises in "Along Came a Spider," a reasonably diverting albeit frequently improbable thriller, but the biggest mystery of all is hardly a surprise: How does star Morgan Freeman manage to give a...

Stars attract stars. With the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall such a celebrated event, it was only a matter of time before the celebrities started showing up en masse, parading before clicking cameras. Last night, "Soundstage L.A.," the final...

LOS ANGELES -- Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the "Star Trek" and "Planet of the Apes" series to "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Dr. Kildare,"...

Film: ``Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' 2003 ``The Sum Of All Fears'' 2002 ``Star Trek: Nemesis'' 2002 ``The Last Castle'' 2001 ``The Mummy'' 1999 ``Mulan'' 1998 ``Star Trek: Insurrection'' 1998 ``The Edge'' 1997 ``LA Confidential'' 1997 ``Star...

Friday June 19, 1998      Memo to the gang at Walt Disney animation: Your formula is showing.      It's a fine formula, and as displayed in Disney's "Mulan," the latest in the self-replenishing stream of animated features from the studio, it produces...

With all the recent fuss over the longevity of the James Bond franchise, the folks over at "Star Trek" must be feeling like intergalactic chopped liver. Has everyone forgotten that since starting out in 1966, the Trekkers have turned out four TV series...

As if Academy Award-nominated composer Hans Zimmer didn't have enough things to worry about in the weeks before the Oscar ceremony, along comes a reporter wondering what piece of music will be played when -- and, of course, if -- someone associated with...

Just because all inmates of the military prison known as the Castle are disgraced former soldiers, don't believe they don't still have the stuff of heroes in them. Just because these men have committed the worst kinds of crimes, don't think they can't be...

In the wake of Sept. 11, "The Sum of All Fears" could hardly be more timely or frightening in its depiction of the world's vulnerability to weapons of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists. This crackling, if overly complicated, version of the Tom...

Soon after the comedy "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" opens, Daffy Duck riffles through another script in which he gets the short end of the carrot stick. Seated at the head of a mile-long table lined with strikingly inanimate human movie executives, Daffy...

"Alien: The Director's Cut" is an old nightmare, made shiny new. It's a scream from another era that still echoes around us. Director Ridley Scott's new, digitally refurbished and re-edited version of his 1979 pop science-fiction hit -- the subzero tale...

Friday February 16, 1996      "City Hall" is inside information in search of a movie, a forced marriage between the trappings of reality and the fantasy of a jerry-built plot. Reasonably intelligent, neither offensive nor enticing, it passes its time...