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While the Ferreira children cope with the ordeal of spending a weekend with their father (Ray is divorced), the earth suddenly faces the somewhat more daunting ordeal of death-dealing tripod machines rising from the ground and massacring innocent bystanders. Apparently, the tripods were buried by malevolent aliens centuries earlier...
There aren’t many chances for the acting in the film to impress audiences. The character development is satisfactory but not great: actors spend the vast majority of the movie running, swimming, stumbling, and hiding away from the deadly tripod machines. But the brief development and Cruiseâ?...
Spielberg makes a visual argument for the ugliness of the human character under pressure. The theft of a minivan; thousands of people left behind to die as tripods approach the ferry; and the descent into apparent madness by Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), one of Ferreira’s acquaintances during his...
Sensible, sixtyish Marianne (Liv Ullmann) is getting exasperated with her cranky, octogenarian ex-husband Johan (Erland Josephson). "Sometimes," she says, "you act like a forgotten character from some stupid old film." That moment in Ingmar Bergman's new film Saraband will stir recollections in viewers who are Marianne's age...
DIED. JOHN FIEDLER, 80, and PAUL WINCHELL, 82, voice-over specialists known for delighting young fans of the animated Winnie the Pooh films with their performances as the ever-anxious Piglet (Fiedler) and the peripatetically perky Tigger (Winchell); in Englewood, New Jersey and Moorpark, California, respectively. Fiedler, a veteran character...