it becomes downright riveting in "Rescue Dawn," a below-the-radar summer movie that shapes up to be a Vietnam-era version of "The Great Escape."There's the sprinkling of levity despite the ...

The acting world’s leading masochist, Christian Bale, who swam in snake-infested Thai rivers and ate live maggots to star in Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn, insists his job isn’t that tough.

“Rescue Dawn” is that kind of stylization. Sublime truth through dazzling poetics. It’s what makes every Herzog movie such dessert for the mind. Reach Michael Booth at mbooth@denverpost.com ...

Actually, it’s not a film. It’s a movie. If you only knew the premise and hadn’t seen “Rescue Dawn” – the true story of Dieter Dengler, an American pilot who made a daring escape from ...

One of the best things you can ever say about a movie is that you feel you're inside it even as you're watching it. In Rescue Dawn, I felt the boredom, the depression, the despair, the anger and ...

Tom Fudge: We're going to start today's film club in a fairly unusual way, by talking about a movie that none of us has so far seen. I'm talking about The Simpsons Movie , which opens this weekend.

Movie writerNew version of 'Bonnie and Clyde ... Jeremy Davies' turn as POW Gene DeBruin in the intense Vietnam-era "Rescue Dawn." In reaction to a July 28 Times-Picayune profile of the actor ...

Rescue Dawn, the true story of Dieter Dengler (Christian ... and more recently played Charles Manson in a TV movie, is wonderfully neurotic as he threatens to ruin the escape.

A movie about a priest deciding whether a couple can get married really gets me excited to go to the theater (yes, that was sarcasm). Rescue Dawn - Two of my favorite actors, Christian Bale and ...