John Doe

Friday August 13, 1999      The first 20 minutes of "Brokedown Palace" promises an exciting and suspenseful adventure. Two lifelong friends, Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale), in a small Midwestern town, are graduating from high school...

Friday September 17, 1999      "Sugar Town," a light, wry take on the slippery slopes of the local contemporary music scene, reunites Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, who with cinematographer Dean Lent made "Border Radio," a gritty 1988 gem that exuded an...

Friday August 25, 2000      A shaggy-dog story in support hose, "The Crew" should effect a marked upswing in the opening of IRAs, Keoughs and contributions to 401(k)s. After all, who wants to end up like its four hotel-dwelling wheeze-guys, standing in...

3 stars (out of 4) Director James Wan's "Saw" is a nasty, nasty piece of business. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. Even for those with ironclad stomachs and eccentric movie tastes, Wan's tense, grisly cinematic morsel won't go down easy....

Several years ago, Todd Stephens wrote an affecting semi-autobiographical script for "Edge of Seventeen," in which a high school youth struggles to accept his homosexuality. Stephens set his story in his native Sandusky, Ohio, which is also where his...

Hospitals, morgues, courtrooms and nostalgia - that's where you'll again find most of the action in the new television season. • • • Cops and hospitals. Hospitals and cops. It's a topical cul-de-sac on TV, where the highest-rated shows in recent...

Friday December 8, 1995      It's not as if Jennifer Jason Leigh isn't a known quantity, not like the kind of intense, edgy, nervous work she specializes in has not been seen and appreciated up to now. But, even with all that as a backdrop, what she...