Scott Hicks

While many of this year's feature documentary Oscar contenders focus on an inattentive (or worse) government, some are notable for their intimate portrayals of an individual. Kimberley Roberts, whose home-video footage of Hurricane Katrina forms the heart...

Romantic comedies about food are supposed to turn us all into Pavlov's dog. Whatever we feel for the romantic leads, the love with which exotic, erotic meals are prepared has to make our mouths water. We must savor the dishes and the romance they...

In the poster for the new Catherine Zeta-Jones vehicle, "No Reservations," the actress and her charismatic costar Aaron Eckhart are shown standing hip to hip in a restaurant kitchen, stirring up something saucy while flashing their dazzling smiles at each...

One of the longest running and most prestigious in-season basketball tournaments in Indiana might need to be renamed the Cathedral Invitational.  The Irish defeated Arlington 74-49 Monday night, the school's fourth straight boys' title.   Scott Hicks'...

Stephen King is a writer with an eye for the grotesque, never at a loss for a strange way to make somebody die. Scott Hicks, director of "Shine" and "Snow Falling on Cedars," is a filmmaker of noticeable, at times overwhelming, gentility. They do not seem...

Wednesday December 22, 1999      The fog is thicker, thicker than you can imagine. The sound of the sea is the only one heard. Out of nowhere, a pair of one-man fishing boats come face to face. Wary, disbelieving, the owners stare at each other--it's not...

Friday November 22, 1996      It's a rainy night and a man is walking in the downpour, soaked through and talking much too fast. He's one of the legion of the mentally unstable--erratic, intriguing, even frightening--that city dwellers instinctively...