Philip Kaufman

Hollywood has never been known for its originality. But in an age when recycling is lauded, maybe the public will warm up to the latest Nicole Kidman vehicle, "The Invasion." If the story of a mother uncovering a sinister, otherworldly plot to replace...

(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-...

James Gandolfini will extend his relationship with HBO beyond next year's final episodes of "The Sopranos." The Emmy-winning actor has signed a three-year production deal with the premium-cable network, under which he'll develop projects exclusively...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

From The Times: Feb. 16, 1989 MGM/UA's "Rain Man" grabbed a narrow lead in the 61st Oscar race Wednesday with eight nominations, including Dustin Hoffman's sixth best-actor nod for his portrayal of a numbers-crunching autistic savant on a cross-country...

At the Oscars next month, an unprecedented contest will unfold. Jamie Foxx, nominated in the best actor category for his role as Ray Charles in Ray, will be up against the highly regarded Don Cheadle from Hotel Rwanda. And for best supporting actor,...

Marlon Brando's extraordinary emotional intelligence expressed itself in every inch of his body for every second - the phrase "being in the moment" might as well have been coined for him. Of course, other actors in New York and Hollywood had been as...

In the junky woman-in-peril thriller "Twisted," Ashley Judd enters laughing, but not for long. Butched-out with cropped hair, leather jacket and a bloodstream gurgling with booze, Judd's Jessica Shepard has just been bumped from beat cop to homicide...

In the new thriller Twisted, Ashley Judd stars as Jessica Shepard, a newly promoted detective in the San Francisco Police Department's homicide division. She's tough-as-nails, an accomplished officer who doesn't mind bending the rules (aren't they all?),...