Mike Vogel

Fasten your seat belt for a flight back to the 1960s. By definition, a series titled "Pan Am" would have to be set in an earlier era, since the title airline went out of business in 1991 after 64 years of operation. However, it's now back in business for...

NEW YORK - They could have called it a stage or a studio, but the term they prefer is “the hangar.” Why not? Handily adjacent to Brooklyn's Steiner Studios lot is a cavernous storage shed now used for housing a key component of ABC's new series, “Pan...

Michelle Williams was a recent Oscar nominee for her intense work in director and co-writer Derek Cianfrance's drama about the arc of a relationship. She and Ryan Gosling play a couple who experience many changes, from the time they meet as teenagers...

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (2011/B-/Directed by Ivan Reitman/Starring Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes, Greta Gerwig, Lake Bell, Mindy Kaling, Olivia Thirlby, Chris Bridges/DreamWorks//Rated R/Comedy/107 minutes/Available on: DVD and Blu-...

"Heaven's Rain" is a delicate, frequently profound drama based on the 1979 home invasion murders of an Oklahoma minister and his wife, whose two children were brutally shot and terrorized in the process. Unfortunately, the resulting film needed a more...

The characters in the new skater comedy "Grind" inhabit the precipice of adulthood that has served films from "American Graffiti" to "American Pie," but this ode to thrashin' is aimed squarely at a younger crowd — grommets, if you will — the...

Vroom. Vroom vroom. Vrrroooooomvrrrroooooommm. VRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOM. Hey, keep it down, willya? I can't hear the heavy-metal music. Imagine a motorcycle movie scored by Vivaldi. Now erase it from your mind. The motorcycle movie, needless to say, is a...

Directed by Ronald Neame, 1972's "Poseidon Adventure" earned eight Oscar nominations and took in more than $84 million, an astounding total for the time. Some filmmakers would feel pressure to repeat that success, but not Wolfgang Petersen. "If you watch...

The sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...

Let's just say that Wolfgang Petersen's remake of Irwin Allen's 1972 disaster classic "The Poseidon Adventure" rings more bells than Quasimodo at noon, and all you hear is a knell. The movie is set on a luxury liner sailing for New York from parts...

Wolfgang Petersen's mega-budgeted "Poseidon" doesn't seem like a typical festival film, but the disaster epic will hold its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. The fest has scheduled a gala event for Saturday, May 6 featuring the first open...

For those who have feverishly believed that what the world needs now is a remake of the 1974 horror movie "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," may I suggest ... therapy. Barring some extensive time on the couch, however, anxious gore-hounds may want to...