Film

Genre: Drama Director: Sydney Lumet Starring Cast: Martin Balsam, John Fielder, Lee Cobb Twelve jury members are sent out to deliberate over the verdict of a murder trial. If the defendant is found guilty, he will be...

It is often said, they just don’t make it like they use to. I can usually agree with that sentiment, but there is one thing that hasn’t changed and that is a good mobster movie. I remember watching ‘The Godfather’ in...

I’m going to try and give you a very objective view of this movie. I mean, it’s a little hard because I really, really, really like Daniel Craig you know! If ‘Casino Royale’ felt a bit like elementary Bond, Craig and...

This movie is strictly for those who laugh very easily. Don’t expect to be thrilled off your seat by this romantic film, in which a ghost tries to prevent her boyfriend, correction, ex-boyfriend, from falling in love...

I will admit, I’m very easy to scare. Pack in a few loud noises with some scary characters and you’ve got me. I won’t be sleeping for the next couple of days. But ‘Mirrors’, well, let’s just say I slept very peacefully...

Genre: Musical Director: Lloyd Bacon Starring Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler The word goes up and down the street: producers Jones and Day are doing a new show “Pretty Lady”. Rich business...

In a word, this movie was a joke. Given the subject line – corporate executives who play spy games with their competitors, I honestly thought the movie would hold my interest. But I was wrong because the writing, the...

1977 was a memorable year and we have two movies this year to remind us of that. ‘Frost/Nixon’ and ‘Milk’. Harvey Milk is remembered as the first gay man to be elected to public office. He became part of the San...

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, “Driving Miss Daisy” was 1989’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture. Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy, in an Oscar-winning role) is a wealthy, Southern widow struggling...

Reunions can be messy, but do they ever get this bad, No, never. That makes you wonder why the film was thought up in the first place, and why an eclectic range of actors from Sissy Spacek, Rebecca Romjin and Dave...

Genre: Comedy Director: Fred C. Newmeyer Starring Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred David The Boy wants to better himself in order to marry the Girl, so he leaves his home town for the big city and becomes a salesman in a...

Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy Director: Fred M. Wilcox Starring Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot After contact with the colonists of distant planet Altair 4 is lost, a spaceship captained by...

In the long line of films made exclusively because technological advancements allow it to be made, here comes Eagle Eye. This thriller, executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, just doesn’t seem to take movie watchers...

This movie is a thinly disguised biography of the Supremes, Motown’s premier “girl group” of the 70’s and 80’s. With a star-studded cast, including Jamie Foxx and Beyoncé Knowles, it is the story of a trio of women with...

Remember how Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Marty the zebra, and Gloria the hippo got on to that ship to head home to the New York Zoo, Well, they don’t actually get home! ‘Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa’ takes up the...

Genre: Horror Director: James Whale Starring Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson Following on directly from 1931’s Frankenstein, We discover Doctor Henry Frankenstein and his creation were not killed. With...

Genre: Sci-fi Fantasy Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden Insane Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper issues the go code to his bomber wing through fear of an...

This film remake of a fable by John Boyne is all about dealing with difficult and painful circumstances, but the problem is, the movie itself is a difficult and painful experience. This is horror through a child’s eye...

To be very honest I wasn’t expecting anything when I went to watch ‘I’ve Loved You So Long’. After a string of other bad movies, I was in no mood for a directorial debut. But I was so wrong. Philippe Claudel’s...

I recently watched Mike Nichol’s “The Birdcage”, a film that may be one of the funniest of the 1990s. And it occurred to me that there seems to be a dichotomy in films where at least one lead character cross-dresses:...