John Polson

Russell Crowe, who tenderized his opponents in the "Cinderella Man" boxing ring, will try a little "Tenderness" this time around. The 42-year-old actor has signed up for director and fellow Aussie John Polson's indie thriller for GreenStreet Films,...

Lionsgate has snagged the rights to Russell Crowe's new indie thriller "Tenderness." The independently financed flick from GreenStreet Films will get the Lionsgate touch in North America, the United Kingdom, Australian and South Africa when it opens in...

In a junior version of "Fatal Attraction," Jesse Bradford and Shiri Appleby play a perfect young couple whose life crawls into a danger zone with the arrival of an obsessive and seductive new babe in town, played by Erika Christensen. John Polson...

3 stars (out of 4) Robert De Niro, one of our greatest living movie actors, needn't spend the rest of his career sitting on most of his talent while getting huge salaries for wringing broad laughs out of a "Meet the Fockers" and an "Analyze This" or...

It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...

The year's first laugh-out-loud-funny thriller, "Hide and Seek," owes much to Stephen King and not a little to the perilous path of being too self-referential. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" beckons an oft-repeated piece of dialogue, echoing...

Between the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...

Ripped from the pages of the "See Dick Run, See Jane Stalk Him" handbook, the thrill-less thriller "Swimfan" is as dumb as it gets. Teenage boy with teenage girlfriend beds teenage girl who isn't his girlfriend. The latter turns out to be psycho. (She has...

Wednesday March 8, 1995      When we meet the father and son of the warm and deeply affecting "The Sum of Us," they strike us as typical Aussie blokes who have an especially close and affectionate relationship. They * are in fact typical--the father is a...