Oliver Hirschbiegel

Enough with the snatching, already. Originally serialized in Collier's in 1954, the Jack Finney story "The Body Snatchers" has spawned four official film versions, two of them (1956 and 1978) terrific, plus dozens of genetically mutated variations on a...

"Help me," the young woman screams. "They're coming, they're among us." No one on screen is paying attention, but we know what it means. That's right, the body snatchers are once again on the prowl. "The Invasion," starring the upscale duo of Nicole...

(C-) Apparently cooked up by a squad of Oxford-educated chimps and edited by a team of Iron Chefs soused on sake, the fourth version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers has nothing going for it except the smashing good looks of Nicole Kidman and Daniel...

Any movie serving up the fourth version of a familiar story isn't expected to shake the planet, much less transform it. "The Invasion," the latest spin on "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," does a few clever things here and there with Jack Finney's oft-...

Nicole Kidman finally gets to put her immobile face to good use as a survivor in a world where masked emotion is the key to survival. Based on the thrice-adapted 1955 book "The Body Snatchers," "The Invasion" is a forgettable but taut thriller that...

2 stars (out of four) Enough with the snatching, already. Originally serialized in Collier's in 1954, the Jack Finney story "The Body Snatchers" has spawned four official film versions, two of them (1956 and 1978) terrific, plus dozens of genetically...

A psychiatrist (Nicole Kidman) works to protect herself, her son and her semi-platonic pal (Daniel Craig of "Casino Royale") after an extraterrestrial species starts turning most of the planet into emotionless pod people. Big question: Do we really...

Nicole Kidman was briefly hospitalized early Thursday (Jan. 25) morning after a car accident on the set of her upcoming thriller "The Invasion." "Entertainment Tonight" and "Extra!" are reporting that Kidman was behind the wheel of a Jaguar being towed...

There's an old cliche of movie history that really fits this year's movies: The films of 2005 -- especially the best ones -- kept shifting between the two great movie extremes of realism and fantasy. Sometimes, they plunged us into harsh truth, as with...

Finally, a movie where Baltimore gets to play Baltimore - and starring Nicole Kidman, no less. The Visiting - formerly known as Invasion - begins filming here Monday. But a news conference featuring its stars and director was held yesterday in...