(I Love My) Bento Box

Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky (Perry) is a dentist in suburban Montreal stuck in a loveless marriage to Sophie (Arquette). One day a new neighbor moves in next door, and Oz recognizes notorious Chicago hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudesky (Willis), hiding out from the Chicago mobsters that he ratted on. Sophie suggests to Oz that he tell mob boss Yanni Gogolack (Pollak) about their new neighbor in order to collect a bounty, so that she can stay behind to plot Oz's death and collect insurance money. In Chicago...

The Coen brothers' ``The Big Lebowski'' is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck, and should come with a warning like the one Mark Twain attached to ``Huckleberry Finn'': ``Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.'' It's about a man named Jeff Lebowski, who calls himself the Dude, and is described by the narrator as ``the laziest man in Los Angeles County.'' He lives only to go bowling, but is mistaken for a millionaire named the Big Lebowski, with dire consequences.....

``Dark City'' by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like ``Metropolis'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey.'' If it is true, as the German director Werner Herzog believes, that we live in an age starved of new images, then ``Dark City'' is a film to nourish us. Not a story so much as an experience, it is a triumph of art direction, set design, cinematography, special effects--and imagination...Like ``Blade Runner,'' it imagines a city...