Haley Joel Osment

1-1/2 stars (out of 4) "Secondhand Lions," writer/director Tim McCanlies' terribly ineffective family drama, is the story of Walter (Haley Joel Osment), a timid 14-year-old boy in early 1960s Texas who's already been beaten down by the hardships of his...

"Secondhand Lions" is something we want to like more than we can. It's a mild family film with an excellent cast that never develops traction. The kind of idiosyncratic fable it has designs on becoming turns out to be hard to construct even when you've...

At the moment, Hartford's movie-lovers can savor some of the best pictures of 2002, released at the end of the year in major markets and now spreading to the provinces. Still, it is a long way to the start of the next big movie season, which begins May...

Friday September 6, 1996      "Bogus" is a celebration of the transforming powers of the imagination, a fantasy of infinite charm for all ages and a triumph for all concerned. It is a work of classic movie magic, the kind that relies upon talent,...