Michael Jeter

When it comes to death with celebrities, you get weird reactions. If it’s somebody like Amy Winehouse, you might hear somebody cavalierly say “It figures.” If it’s Phyllis Diller, the response might be “Wasn’t she in...

Friday August 1, 1997      If ever there was a 12-year-old boy who needed a dog, it would be Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers) in Disney's delightful family comedy "Air Bud." If ever there was a dog in need of a new master, it's a golden retriever Josh names...

Friday December 19, 1997      "Home Alone," with a mouse.      When you can pitch a movie idea in five words, you're talking major studio release, and sure enough, here comes DreamWorks' "Mouse Hunt."      With a three-inch field mouse in the...

Margot Kidder is back, looking far too young and beautiful to be the mother of a 30-year-old son, and giving a beguiling performance as an easygoing parent in Stephen Kijak's skittish "Never Met Picasso." It's a wry comedy, decidedly on the callow side,...

Friday August 14, 1998      Last summer's screen fare was considerably brightened by a delightful family comedy called "Air Bud," in which a boy, who has just lost his father, befriends a golden retriever that turns out to be a terrific basketball star....

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...

Friday December 10, 1999      The face of Hollywood today is the face of power. Director's power. The power of special effects. Together, they can create wonders, but if unchecked they can also lead to things that are not so wonderful, things that are...

Friday December 15, 2000      In his directorial debut with the western "South of Heaven, West of Hell," singer-composer-actor Dwight Yoakam displays a genuine depth of feeling for the Old West, only to cancel it out with self-indulgence.      Overlong,...

Say what you like, think what you will, scoff if you have to (and you will definitely have to), but in the final analysis Kevin Knows Westerns. Returning to the genre that won him Academy Awards for best director and best picture with 1990's "Dances With...

3 stars (out of 4) It's hard to calibrate magic, harder still to conjure it flawlessly, especially the magic of Christmas that a child experiences. In "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks try for that special combination of...

In the genial, low-wattage comedy "Welcome to Collinwood," a handful of petty thieves and idlers try to break into a neighborhood jewelry store thinking they've hit the criminal big time. Since that more or less describes what happens, or at least the...

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...