Doug E. Doug

Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment. Confession: Until last week, I hadn't...

New releases: "Stuart Little 2" (PG)--Stuart Little has a death-defying adventure and his first romance in this handsomely wrought sequel, a neat blend of live action and computer animation, based again on characters from E.B. White's classic. Tots and...

You've fixed the air conditioner for the seventh time this week. (And it's only Wednesday!) You've played fetch with the dog, catch with the kids, "Truth or Consequences" with your spouse. You're aiming higher in your summer reading this year. But your...

"Shark Tale" is an underwater movie that's gone to the well once too often. For reasons both in and out of its control, it does not have as much invigorating freshness as audiences have come to expect in computer animation. One thing "Shark Tale"...

Friday February 14, 1997      Disney's reworking of its beloved 1965 "That Darn Cat" is too contrived and drawn out to have much appeal for audiences beyond small children, who may be diverted by the antics of a clever feline but who may also start to...

Friday July 28, 1995      As a pleasing family adventure-comedy, "Operation Dumbo Drop" is as familiar as its setting is unlikely: Vietnam, 1968. Even more unlikely, however, is that it was inspired by an actual incident in which some Green Berets...