The Haunted Mansion is the second movie this year based on a Disney theme park ride. There is a plot of sorts about Eddie Murphy's wife being a double for the mansion's owner's longlost love, and Eddie Murphy and his wife being realtors looking to sell the mansion, and a big storm trapping their family in the mansion for the night, but none of the ( Read more... )

The Missing is a Western directed by Ron Howard. Cate Blanchett plays a frontier woman with two young daughters and Tommy Lee Jones plays her estranged father, who conveniently shows up in time to help track the Indians who kidnapped the older daughter. Blanchett, Jones, and the little girl who plays the younger daughter are all excellent and the ( Read more... )

Timeline is an uninspired adaptation of Michael Crichton's time travel story, directed by Richard Donner. It's about a team from an archaeological dig in France who are sent back to the fourteenth century after their leader is stranded there by an unscrupulous technology company who accidentally discovered a wormhole. The novel is nearly as good as ( Read more... )