Haley Joel Osment

Since its 1967 release, Disney has reissued "The Jungle Book," inspired by Rudyard Kipling's stories, many times and even made a live-action, direct-to-video sequel in 1998. At last it has produced a big-screen, animated sequel, "The Jungle Book 2," a...

September Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star: TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts (David Spade) is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for the role of a "normal" guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything...

If you've been to Disney World more than once, you've probably appreciated how useful that "Country Bear Jamboree" of singing automated bears can be when you're trying to cool down young 'uns who have been overstimulated by thrill rides. Still, no matter...

Friday August 6, 1999      It would be rash--foolhardy, even--to imply that summer '99 has seen anything like a renaissance of the horror genre. "Lake Placid" and "Deep Blue Sea" were beached whales. "The Haunting" had all the psychological terror of a...

Wednesday November 22, 2000      Copycat films are a fact of life in Hollywood, and once writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" grossed more than $600 million worldwide and earned six Oscar nominations, it was inevitable that someone...

Friday October 20, 2000      Is it live or is it Memorex? Is it a diamond or is it authentic cubic zirconium? Is the feeling in "Pay It Forward" genuine or is it a carefully created emotional forgery, the kind of fake tinsel that's been a Hollywood...

Friday October 20, 2000      When "Shanghai Noon" was winning friends for Jackie Chan a few months back, one troublesome critic (no names, please) grumbled that it was bittersweet that these new fans couldn't get a chance to see the Asian action...

It's back to the '50s in "Signs," M. Night Shyamalan's odd, semi-comic science-fiction tale centering on a weirdly sculptured cornfield in Bucks County, Pa., and a lapsed reverend played in shifting moods by Mel Gibson. Recalling "The War of the Worlds"...

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...

2 stars (out of 4) Everyone has an awkward, ugly-duckling period. For Macaulay Culkin, it was "Getting Even with Dad" (1994). Haley Joel Osment, post "Secondhand Lions," is experiencing it right now. So is computer animation. While Pixar and a few...

NEW YORK - This is it. It's real. A decades-old doctoral dissertation has grown into an actual product supported by a fledgling company, which on this early autumn day is being unveiled in a windowless ballroom several stories above the cab-choked streets...

2 stars (out of 4) Some movie sequels—like the mediocre shark string that followed "Jaws" or the recent, appalling "Dumb and Dumberer"—probably should never have been made. "The Ring Two" isn't quite that bad, but despite some impressive technical...