• January 3, 2003
• Adventure, At Home, Fantasy

Just when you think director Peter Jackson is in over his head with the extravagant special effects, numerous characters, and the large scope of J.R.R. Tolkein’s book, he proves...

• December 28, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Diane Lane, in a Golden Globe-nominated performance, plays Connie, a suburban housewife who has a perfectly nice home, a perfectly nice son, and most importantly, a perfectly nice marriage...

• December 26, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Crime

Catch Me tells the so-unbelievable-it-can-only-be-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (the eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio) a con man of the highest caliber, who happened to pull his greatest scams...

• December 24, 2002
• At Home, Drama

The Nose. Much hubbub has been made about The Nose. Specifically Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose in her role as Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed...

• December 22, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

These schoolboys, blurrily indistinguishable from each other for a large part of the film, basically run wild in their loosely structured classes, re-enacting scenes from old Bette Davis movies,...

• December 10, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Horror

The setting: a boy’s orphanage out in the middle of freakin’ nowhere at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The building is extremely isolated (of course), and is...

• December 5, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Music, Romance

Synopsis: A seriously fun cross-cultural comedy that revels in its Desi roots, Deepa Mehta’s (Earth, Fire) rollicking faux-Bollywood romantic musical employs all the conventions of the genre to tell...

• November 23, 2002
• Animation, At Home, Family

Remember that time when a nice girl named Belle was held prisoner by a gruff beast named Beast?  And he was bitter and ate sloppily and had all sorts...

• November 20, 2002
• At Home, Drama

This completely by-the-book feel-good sports drama sticks in your head about as long as a Nike commercial. No, I take that back. Nike has had some pretty good advertising...

• November 14, 2002
• Adventure, At Home, Family, Fantasy

Before I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I had asked several people what they had thought of the film, as I tried to decide whether or...

• October 30, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Crime

Stephen (Greg Lauren) and Danny (Christopher Gartin) are a totally open gay couple who met while they were both Army Rangers. (Isn’t that where true love usually happens?) Anyway,...

• October 25, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Television

Tipping the Velvet is a three-hour television adaptation of the surprisingly successful first novel by Sarah Waters (read Moviepie’s exclusive interview with Sarah Waters about the series). Surprising in...