The Usual Suspects: Catching Up with Keyser

Kevin Pollak, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro, Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey. Photo: Gramercy Pictures After seeing the drama Public Access at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, Kevin Spacey went…

American Beauty: Beyond Italian Upholstery

Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks The story of how American Beauty, one of the most celebrated films of the 1990s, was made is the story of how a struggling TV writer…

Se7en: A Tour of Sins

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Photo: New Line Cinema Director David Fincher's first feature, Alien³ (1992), had the misfortune of following in the footsteps of some of Ridley Scott's and…

Superman Returns

Five years after the events in Superman II (1981), the Man of Steel (Brandon Routh) returns to Earth only to find that Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth) has a son and…

a bug’s life 

In my opinion, a bug’s life and its same-year rival Antz are equally good, but this one might appeal more to kids. Conceived with plenty of imagination, this is a…