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But then top sergeant Robert Lee (Scott Glenn) arrives and lays down some new laws. He intends to clean up the base and he immediately pegs Elwood as a source of the problem. Elwood thinks he can simply "work a deal" with Lee but he underestimates his new opponent. When Elwood finally realizes that Lee won't play along, he decides to take a different tact-he throws down the gauntlet and seduces Lee's rebellious daughter Robyn (Anna Paquin). The two men are now heading for a showdown that's more serious than Elwood anticipated. The situation grows more complicated when Elwood decides to sell $5 million in stolen arms to a Turkish drug dealer and then discovers that he really loves Lee's daughter.

Ralph Fiennes delivers brilliant performance

After spending 20 years in a mental institution, Spider has just been released back into his old neighborhood in the East End of London. He's sent to a halfway house run by the brusque Mrs. Wilkenson (Lynn Redgrave). There he meets Terrence (John Neville), a talkative resident who explains that in a loud world, the halfway house is like an island ruled by a queen. Terrence tries to befriend Spider who keeps very much to himself. But Spider still manages to irritate Mrs. Wilkenson by initially refusing to bathe and insisting on wearing all his clothes at once. As Terrence notes, "Clothes maketh the man. The less the man, the more the need for clothes."

In an odd way, the surprise box office success of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's earlier film,

In terms of story, there are no surprises in

After 20 years of trying to break into Hollywood, Asian superstar Jackie Chan now has the U.S. market wired. The formula thats reaping profits for Chan is to pair him with an American actor--the blonde Owen Wilson in

Spidey Swings Into Action

The language of Shakespeare may be gone but the images and themes remain. Kurosawa had been contemplating an adaptation of Lear for ten years before finally bringing Ran to the screen. His idea was to set Lear against the backdrop of Japans 16th century civil wars and cross the story with the legend of Mori, a feudal warlord who had three good sons. Lears story prompted Kurosawa to think what would have happened if Moris sons had not been loyal. So Lears daughters are transformed into sons but the basic plot remains the same. In this case, Lord Hidetora wants to relieve himself of the burden of power but not the honor and ceremony that attends it. So he divides his lands amongst his sons. The two eldest flatter their father and then betray him whereas the youngest calls his father a fool and is cast aside. But soon Hidetora is humiliated and abused by his two false sons and this drives him to madness.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

The Balkan conflict provides the backdrop to the Hollywood action film Behind Enemy Lines but in No Mans Land (opening December 12), Bosnia moves to the forefront. KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando speaks with director Danis Tanovic about this year's Bosnian Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film.