Clea DuVall

Before this TV season started, you might have known Greg Grunberg as the funny nice guy on "Felicity" and "Alias." But now that he's playing super-powered policeman Matt Parkman on "Heroes," you almost certainly know who he is. Grunberg and the rest of...

"Two Weeks," written and directed by Steve Stockman, is the story of a woman dying from ovarian cancer and her four adult children as they gather at her Wilmington, N.C., home for what they believe to be her final days. The loss of a parent is difficult...

(R). Dark and stormy night, desolate motel, stranded travelers drop dead one by one. A number of very reputable actors (including John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Rebecca De Mornay) give heart and soul to a patently absurd thriller that has the good sense to...

3 stars (out of 4) Almost all horror movies have a social agenda, or at least seek to redeem their heroes in some way. "Nightmare on Elm Street's" villain was a damned child-killer, "Friday the 13th" raged against teen sex and even the "The Sixth Sense"...

Early on, Takashi Shimizu's stylish but silly, credibility-defying horror picture "The Grudge" features one lucky Tokyo real estate agent. He's been showing a large modern house to an American businessman (William Mapother), the man's wife (Clea DuVall)...

3 1/2 stars (out of 4) "21 Grams," with Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts brilliantly playing three people united by chance and violence, is a cinematic shock wave. This second film from Mexican director Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu - whose...

At a motel along a deserted stretch of a Nevada highway, 10 people take shelter during a storm only to be killed, one by one, in the sleek and clever thriller "Identity." Throughout, the film teeters tantalizingly on the preposterous, but James Mangold'...

"13 Conversations About One Thing" is about as far removed from a Hollywood movie as a film can be and still have familiar stars and a traditional narrative form--albeit with some deft shifts back and forth in time. Tautly written, resolutely low-key,...

At the moment, Hartford's movie-lovers can savor some of the best pictures of 2002, released at the end of the year in major markets and now spreading to the provinces. Still, it is a long way to the start of the next big movie season, which begins May...

Friday December 25, 1998      Before you can say "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," a group of students at a small-city Ohio high school begin suspecting that their teachers are turning into aliens. Can the student body be far behind?      Amid the...

Friday July 21, 2000      "But I'm a Cheerleader" is the result of the kind of good intentions with which the road to hell is paved.      Director Jamie Babbit and co-writer Brian Wayne Petersen set out to send up the cruel absurdity of aversion therapy...