Van Heflin

I don't want to oversell " The Rocker," but in a summer of erratic, assaultive comedies all up and down the budget scale, this Rainn Wilson vehicle—a kind of "Home School of Rock"—stakes out its own corner of the market. It's a lot of fun. Its...

I don't want to oversell "The Rocker," but in a summer of erratic, assaultive comedies all up and down the budget scale, this Rainn Wilson vehicle—a kind of "Home School of Rock"—stakes out its own corner of the market. It's a lot of fun....

NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •'The Year My Parents Went on Vacation' *** 1/2 (Brazil; Cao Hamburger, 2008). This...

Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," must have gotten word that the housing slump hasn't hurt sales in the upper tiers of the market. He has listed his Hancock Park home at close to $9 million, according to area real...

Absolute Power (1997) Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...

2½ stars (out of four) Two of the finest westerns of the 1950s traded in a particularly wily brand of snake-charming antagonist, an outlaw being brought to frontier justice but vexing the vulnerable protagonists something fierce en route. One was "The...

Two of the finest westerns of the 1950s traded in a particularly wily brand of snake-charming antagonist, an outlaw being brought to frontier justice but vexing the vulnerable protagonists something fierce en route. One was "The Naked Spur," in which...

Fifty years ago, 3:10 to Yuma was a lean, mean morality tale that featured movie good-guy Glenn Ford as a villain, a desperado guarded by a poor farmer (Van Heflin) on their way to a train that will take the bad man to prison or the end of a rope. Much...

If "3:10 to Yuma" feels familiar, and it does, it's not just because it's a remake of the classic 1957 western. Almost every plot point -- psycho gunslingers, savage Apaches, even doctors who say "that bullet has to come out" -- is a trope that has been a...

LOS ANGELES -- Janet Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller "Psycho" was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was 77. The...

3 stars (out of 4) Crime movies can be either tight and tense or irreverently funny, and in the hands of a pro's pro like writer Elmore Leonard and a neat director like George Armitage, they can be both at once. "The Big Bounce" is the latest movie...

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