The Minnesota Daily

Melodrama gold

by Tom Horgen
Published October 9, 2003

"Alias" exerts a gentle pressure on our emotions while indulging our thirst for thrills.

Fun at the expense of others

by Tom Horgen
Published October 2, 2003

Jack Black's turn as a wacky teacher leaves some of his students out in the cold.

Love and scooters in the eternal city

by Gabriel Shapiro
Published October 2, 2003

Audrey Hephburn and Gregory Peck star in the mod classic "Roman Holiday."

Through the looking-glass

by Tom Horgen
Published October 2, 2003

"Lost in Translation's" stunning cinematography conceals its dubious Euro-centric politics.

With fiends like these

by Tom Horgen
Published September 25, 2003

Into the rabbit hole we fall again. Leather-clad body armor, twin automatic pistols, glorious slow-motion. A feast for the eyes. But this isn't "The Matrix." This is horror. Vampires, werewolves and thousands...

The chance won’t come again

by Niels Strandskov
Published September 18, 2003

Dig 1960s radicalism in "The Weather Underground."

Art films, indies and more

by Tom Horgen
Published September 18, 2003

Minnesota Film Arts' two screens offer dozens of great movies every month.

Amen to that!

Published September 18, 2003

Good luck finding a glass slipper in this Cinderella story. Take a drunk Alabama organist, a "barbershop" quartet and a 7-foot prison inmate who sings like Tiny Tim. Throw in some rap and a Michael Vick...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep

by Tom Horgen
Published September 11, 2003

Eli Roth's directorial debut pursues an atavistic kind of horror.

There’s a battle outside ragin’

by Tom Horgen
Published September 11, 2003

Bob Dylan puts a little bite behind his bark in "Masked and Anonymous"