William Hickey

The graphic video stars Paul McCartney and a lot of suffering animals, including a cow still alive with its head half chopped off. The video claims to show the reality of what happens in slaughter houses. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...

09/01/11 - OUT ON HOME VIDEO - By Lisa Miller - 775-322-6676 Home Video Releases for the Weeks of 8/30 through 9/06/11__________________________________________OUT ON HOME VIDEO - By Lisa Miller(Ratings Out of Four Stars.)PROM(2011)* *1/2 (B-)Directed...

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas -- Tim Burton's vision, Henry Selick's 1993 movie -- is a masterpiece. A work of grand visual wit, clever songs, funny gags and genuine pathos, it is perhaps the greatest stop-motion animated film ever, a...

Friday December 19, 1997      "Home Alone," with a mouse.      When you can pitch a movie idea in five words, you're talking major studio release, and sure enough, here comes DreamWorks' "Mouse Hunt."      With a three-inch field mouse in the...

Friday December 12, 1997      Imagine the late William Hickey--maestro of cadaverous, insinuating evil--cast as Andre, a latter-day Fagin, operating a male brothel out of a lavish old Manhattan townhouse rather than running a gang of youthful pickpockets...

Margot Kidder is back, looking far too young and beautiful to be the mother of a 30-year-old son, and giving a beguiling performance as an easygoing parent in Stephen Kijak's skittish "Never Met Picasso." It's a wry comedy, decidedly on the callow side,...

Friday May 19, 1995      Billy Crystal plays a National Basketball Assn. referee in "Forget Paris," which means he makes a lot of jokes about a short guy yelling at tall guys. He milks his gift for yammering, he milks us for tears and he milks us for...