Martha Coolidge

Brain-numbing movies in August are as common as the hum of cicadas and tropical humidity. And, like both of those things, they can put you right to sleep. This time around, in "Material Girls" — doesn't the title make you the teensiest bit anxious?...

Movies that are new on DVD and VHS, with Newsday's reviews: KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (R) - Honeymoon killer: Having dispatched most of her would-be assassins, the bride now gets to throw the razor- studded bouquet. Electrifying, in its rhythms and tension,...

1-1/2 stars (out of 4) "The Prince & Me" is a romantic comedy about the farmer's daughter and the traveling prince - winsome Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles) from Wisconsin and dapper Prince Edvard (Luke Mably) from Denmark - and despite its cast and director...

After close to half a century on stage and screen, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, the co-stars of "Out to Sea," keep fooling, beguiling and surprising us. Nothing can sink or ruffle them. Even with substandard scripts or dubious projects, they remain one...

As film and TV writers are walking the picket line, the directors who bring their scripts to life are walking their own fine line. Directors are in a quandary over when to begin their contract talks with the major studios. Historically, directors have...

Brain-numbing movies in August are as common as the hum of cicadas and tropical humidity. And, like both of those things, they can put you right to sleep. This time around, in "Material Girls" -- doesn't the title make you the teensiest bit anxious? --...

(PG). Tirelessly uplifting romance about a driven pre-med student and the inconsequential playboy who is secretly the prince of Denmark. To buy or not to buy ... that is the question. With Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, Ben Miller, Miranda Richardson, James...

Once upon a feminist time, stories about princes on white horses were verboten unless the prince looked like Alan Alda and was super-sympathetic to the female orgasm. Times and feminism change, however, and these days, a woman can have an advanced...

John Waters and New Line Cinema go way back, almost to the beginning. In 1972, New Line and its founder, Robert Shaye, took a chance on a proudly perverse Baltimore director and his film about a dog-poop-eating transvestite. The gamble paid off and...

Friday October 27, 1995      "Three Wishes" is a wonderful film, full of warmth, humor and charm, a family drama with the possibility of the supernatural. It is an uncommonly accurate period piece, the kind that goes beneath the surface, and its stars,...