On tour promoting her sexy new suspense thriller Perfect Stranger -- no, not an adaptation of that 80's sitcom with Balki Bartokomous - Oscar-winner Halle Berry had a quick chat with 34ST.
STREET: What have you not yet accomplished in your film career?
Those who frequent Bible Study (or anyone who's watched The Prince of Egypt) are probably familiar with those 10 little inconveniences called the deadly plagues: locusts, frogs, rivers of blood and all that jazz.
These guys and gals may be all over Hollywood - big screen, small screen, behind the camera, in front of it, possibly on the side of it - but they all come from the same place: the University of Pennsylvania.
First Snow
Four stars
Directed by: Mark Fergus
Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo
PG-13, 121 min.
First Snow follows a man named Jimmy (Guy Pearce) who's waiting for his death after a fisherman/cowboy/fortune-teller predicts that he will die after the first snow.
Pride is so faithful to the sports underdog movie formula that a plot summary seems unnecessary. Let's instead imagine a montage sequence, much like the ones interspersed throughout the movie: begin with the run-down Philadelphia Department of Recreation on the brink of closure.
The problem with being funny in Hollywood is that once you've established your rep as a comedian, you're rarely allowed the chance to do anything except be funny.
In writing the sequel to last year's The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, director of the Scream trilogy, had a little help from someone who possesses a mind as sick and disturbing as his own: his son.
Starter for 10
2.5 stars
Directed by: Tom Vaughan
Starring: James McAvoy, Alice Eve
PG-13, 96 min.
A screenwriting professor at Penn used to say, "If you aim for The Godfather and come up short, you still have Goodfellas.
It's rare to be so entertained by one of the worst movies you'll ever see. In her latest time-travel disaster Premonition, Sandra Bullock awakes one day to find that her husband has been killed in a random car accident, but when she wakes up the next day, he is alive and well.
Kal Penn proves that he's capable of more than Van Wilder in The Namesake, an intimate portrait of a displaced Bengali immigrant couple forced to cope with isolation and culture shock while raising a son and daughter in Boston.
Darfur. We learn about the terrible situation every day. But how often do we hear the stories of individuals who have escaped the carnage of the Sudan?
Narrated by Nicole Kidman, God Grew Tired Of Us reveals the plight of young Sudanese men growing up in a Kenyan refugee camp and then traveling more than a thousand miles to the U.S.
Gray Matters
2.5 Stars
Directed by: Sue Kramer
Starring: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh
R, 96 min.
It is not often that a first-time writer/director snags big name talent like Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek and Heather Graham for an offbeat romantic comedy about coming out.
Chris Rock is growing up. In his new film, I Think I Love My Wife, he attempts to incorporate his inimitable shtick into a more traditionally respectable format than, say, Pootie Tang.
In the wake of such epics as Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, one imagines director Zack Snyder's 300, about the Roman Battle of Thermopylae, would have had little trouble getting picked up in Hollywood.