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Signs There's something spooky in the field next to the farmhouse where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lives with his two kids (Rory Culkin and Abigail Breslin) and his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix): gigantic crop circles. Are they an elaborate prank or the harbinger of an alien race's intervention? Given M. Night Shyamalan's earlier hits (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable), you can forget prank. The writer-director wants you to believe in signs, from beyond the grave or the solar system, from the Bible or a good man's troubled heart - for Graham is still in mourning...
...Mel G. a no-show for our weekly tennis match. Message says dog ate his racket. Donny Osmond towel snaps me around locker room--wouldn't have tried that a couple of years ago. Ten to one, Eisner...
...Astaire, who made his name on the stage, just below that of his dancing sister Adele, inspired a recycled Broadway hit spun two generations later from his 20s Gershwin show "Funny Face" ("My One and Only" in the 80s). And on the low end, in the 1974 "Young Frankenstein," Mel Brooks duded up his monster (Peter Boyle) in top hat, white tie and tails to sing an Astaire favorite, "Puttin' on the Ritz...
Signs (Aug. 2): The newest film from the writer/director of The 6th Sense and Unbreakable, Signs stars Mel Gibson as a man whose life is changed after a 500 hundred foot design mysteriously appears in his crops. Hopefully Signs will be an improvement on Unbreakable, giving us a satisfying if unspectacular movie going experience...
...Mel Bochner...