Ron Howard made a SPLASH with the Tom Hanks-Daryl Hannah fish-out-of-her-mind tale. NIGHT SHIFT
and GRAND THEFT AUTO
are entertaining as well, if not particularly taxing, mentally. However, since the opening of COCOON
, the child-star turned childish filmmaker has slipped down the banana-peeled slope of box-office-driven, simple-minded, commercial filmmaking. He makes Spielberg look like Tarkovsky. But with the OscarĀ®-certified FROST/NIXON
has Howard regained some credibility or is he still leaking hot air, like the deflated President of his Best Picture nominee?