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Different computer trickery created The Polar Express, which might also be called Gollum: The Movie. The same technology used to create the The Lord of the Rings wretch brings this supertrain adventure to life. That, plus Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis...
...imposing as the range of his art. He goes for majesty over subtlety and, often as not, finds what he's looking for. Magic-lantern images are everywhere: in the blood pouring from an altar crucifix; in the Castle Dracula chauffeur garbed as Darth Vader; in the endless supertrain of the count's cape; in the placental gel and rat's-nest cocoons that encase the vampire. But more: in the wonderfully spectral mood that does justice to the romance at Dracula's heart...
Crowe devotes most of the two hours to Linda (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve (Campbell Scott). Steve busies himself with engineering an atmospherically beneficent supertrain to unclog his beloved city's roads. Linda's environmental organization saves the world...
...skater's picture of paradise. In Albertville, days of driving rain that left the ice bumpy alternated with sunny ones that left it slushy. World records? Personal bests? This track was about survival, not records, and woe to the skater unable to block out the noise of the TGV supertrain from Lyons rushing by on tracks 600 ft. from the north curve...
...frenzied peak. Sitcoms like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley are riding high in the Nielsens. Blockbuster mini-series are vying to reproduce the huge audiences that tuned in for Roots. Star programmer Fred Silverman, the Man with the Golden Gut, is ready to try everything from Gary Coleman to Supertrain in his quest to lift NBC out of the prime-time ratings cellar...