Claire Bloom

*Hancock: Will Smith shows off his box-office superpowers again, taking a dark story about a superhero who despises the people he's bound to protect and turning it into his latest summer hit. Smith plays the title role, a boozy misanthrope with a...

Yup, that's the big important date to remember, when TCM will devote its full Sunday schedule to Paul Newman classics, including ...Cool Hand Luke (1967), Somebody up There Likes Me (1956), Torn Curtain (1966), Exodus (1960), Hud (1963), and......

Lady Marchmain, the lead foot on the spiritual engine of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," seems as anachronistic as a detachable collar, bobbed hair or the Latin Mass. And her strain of Roman Catholicism -- unflinching, irreproachable,...

PREMIUM CABLE 'Mighty Aphrodite' *** 5:15 p.m., Showtime Fans of Woody Allen's early comedy work will appreciate his return to form -- more or less -- in this 1995 offering. Allen's character, a sportswriter, plays matchmaker and career consultant...

SHORTLY AFTER James Whale's "Frankenstein” opened in November 1931, the manager of a certain Granada Theater received a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "I can't sleep,” said the unhappy patron. "So I'll be darned if you're going to sleep either!” The anecdote,...

If Argentinians can avoid crying after assaults on their history from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Madonna, they will certainly weather the new political thriller, "Imagining Argentina," which stars Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson. Set in 1976 Buenos...

VEGAS WILL give odds. And pundits will spar over who among the Academy Award nominees announced Tuesday will come away with statuettes. But between now and Oscar night, March 24, the only sure winners are from the past. And although nearly all previous...

Vegas will WILL give odds. And pundits will spar over who among the Academy Award nominees will come away with statuettes. But between now and Oscar night, March 24, the only sure winners are from the past. And although nearly all previous winners of the...

Friday December 6, 1996      Kit Latura, able to absorb enough blows to disable a tank, takes a licking and keeps on ticking as the hero of "Daylight." What hurts him the most, however, are the verbal jabs from the very people he's trying to help, a...

Friday July 23, 1999      "The Haunting" is such a feeble frightfest that even its characters seem irked at it. "You brought us here to scare us, is that it?" is the disbelieving reaction of the lovely Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sentiment that people...