Brief Encounter

Lost in Space, directed by Stephen Hopkins, is just too silly for words. In yet another cinematic updating of a long-forgotten TV series, William Hurt plays Professor John Robinson, a scientist who has been chosen to emigrate with his family to the planet Alpha Prime, which is ten years in a fast spaceship away, but…

Near the end of The Mod Squad one of the three drop-dead hip teen cops, Pete Cochran (Giovanni Ribisi), says to another, Julie Barnes (Claire Danes): “Dirty cops, drops at the airport: I feel like one of us should say, ‘We’re getting too old for this s***’.” Julie replies: “At least it’s not going down…

The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over

Bruce McCulloch does the best he can to make a movie his fellow Canadian, Tom Green, cannot reduce to an episode of “The Tom Green Show.” He can’t.

An interestingly innovative and very watchable updating of Shakespeare’s late study of military honor

Mel, we may love you for the enemies you’ve made, but your movie is still a mess