The State of Cool - By Jeffrey Chen Barry Sonnenfeld directed Get Shorty, and, like several Sonnenfeld films, it's preoccupied with its own cleverness and light cynical attitude. There's cynicism in the new sequel, Be Cool, too, but in F. Gary Gray's hands it's less sarcastic, more direct, probably... MORE >>
Nobody's Definition of Cool - By John P. McCarthy Being cool and acting cool are two separate things. No one exploits that gap amongst second-tier criminals with funnier results than novelist Elmore Leonard. His creation Chili Palmer was born cool and John Travolta, the actor portraying him for a second time in this sequel to Get... MORE >>
