FROM THE SEA TO THE STAGE, BILL NIGHY IS WORTH CATCHING IN ALL ACTS

By BARBARA HOFFMAN

January 14, 2007 - 'I've been a zombie, a vampire and a squid," Bill Nighy says, cheerfully. "It's quite nice to play someone in a normal pair of trousers." These days, it's twice as...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

January 14, 2007 - PENCIL this in on your calendar: A newly restored print of "Eraser head," the never-to-be-forgotten feature debut by David Lynch, receives a one-week run, starting Thursday...more >

By KYLE SMITH

January 13, 2007 - 'PRIMEVAL" is one of the few monster-crocodile movies that simultaneously tries to rip off "Jaws" and "Meet the Press." Ads for the movie, and the headlines in the...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

January 12, 2007 - WHO knew? Justin Timberlake shows that he can do more as an actor than just take his shirt off - though he does that a lot as well - in the irresponsible, uncommercial but surprisingly watchable...more >

By KYLE SMITH

January 12, 2007 - AND the first great film of 2007 is . . . not "Arthur and the In visibles." Very, very not. This kids' cartoon from France is such a surreally demented attempt to connect with children...more >

By LOU LUMENICK

January 12, 2007 - MANI Ratnam's often absorbing "Guru" is sort of a Bollywood "Citizen Kane," a decades-spanning drama with a compelling Abhishek Bachchan as a ruthless Indian business...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

January 12, 2007 - WHAT do you get when you mix a Douglas Sirk melodrama with a Sergio Leone Western? "Tears of the Black Tiger," a high-camp Western from, of all places, Thailand. After gathering dust...more >

By V.A. MUSETTO

January 12, 2007 - ADD to the list of sick acts committed by the government of North Korea's "dear leader," the height-challenged Kim Jong Il: kidnapping a 13-year-old girl on her way home from school...more >

By KYLE SMITH

January 12, 2007 - 'STOMP the Yard" takes you to the world of stepping - the traditional heavy-booted dance show put on by black fraternities that resembles what the 82nd Infantry would look like if it were...more >

By KYLE SMITH

January 12, 2007 - 'GOD Grew Tired of Us" could almost call itself the funny Sudan documentary - a nonfiction "Coming to America." That would be stretching a point, but there are surprising...more >