Film

Genre: War Director: Henry King Starring Cast: Gregory Peck, Dean Jagger At the height of World War II, a US bomber squadron based in England is demoralised having suffered many losses on dangerous raids over Germany...

Brace yourself, sickly sweet tweens are back to rule the roost. Disney’s high school gang returns for the third instalment of their singing/ acting pursuits. Singing basketball player, (sounds hilarious, but it’s...

So many forgettable films have stunning visual effects. What makes them forgettable is that there is nothing else. Amateur filmmakers hide behind visual effects rather than use them. What sets director Robert Zemeckis...

Don’t Mess with the Zohan can definitely be considered an improvement over ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry’. Did I just describe Don’t Mess…. an improvement over anything. Yes, it’s an improvement but barely so...

It’s been three years since one of America’s most controversial presidents has been forced out of his office but Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) hasn’t said a word. Yet. Its 1977 and Nixon agrees to do a series of...

Genre: Drama Director: Mike Nichols Starring Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katherine Ross This iconic movie has numerous famous images and often quoted lines of its script connected with it. Suffice it to say...

The hottest movie this award season is James Cameron’s “Avatar,” which was released in December in time for the holiday film going season. By the end of the year it had grossed almost $600 million and was fast eclipsing...

Genre: Action/Adventure Director: Michael Curtiz & William Keighley Starring Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone Saxon Sir Robin of Locksley (Flynn) falls foul of the Norman authorities and turns...

“You can’t spell families without lies,” says Brad (Vince Vaughn) in this season’s newest take on the “meet the parents” premise. The movie has been released as ‘Four Holidays’ and ‘Four Christmases’ so don’t get...

As horror movies go, ‘Audrey Rose’ presents an interesting idea. Elliot Hoover, played by Anthony Hopkins, tells Janice and Bill Templeton (played by Marsha Mason and John Beck) that Ivy, their daughter (played by Susan...

Still a legend in the halls of the FBI, the life of Joseph D. Pistone became the thing that legends are made of and is the basis for the 1997 film ‘Donnie Brasco’. It is the mid-70’s and New York City is teeming with...

Mel Gibson returns to the front of the camera and reclaims his action-hero status in the drama-thriller “Edge of Darkness”. Not since 2002’s “Signs” has Gibson starred in a movie, but that doesn’t mean the public hasn’t...

Genre: Drama Director: Nicholas Ray Starring Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood One of the edgiest, rawest movies ever to be created in the 1950s, “Rebel Without a Cause” paired a young Natalie Wood with Hollywood’s leading...

It isn’t often that a modern horror/thriller isn’t synonymous with blood splatters and guts. These days, most films are a cornucopia of human slaughter splattered across the screen. Few movies follow the axiom: less is...

I think I was in grade school when “Spaceballs” first came out on video. I remember watching it at a slumber party and thinking, “This is different.” I had no idea what terms like “satire” and “parody” meant. Although I...

‘Arachnophobia’ is a recent thriller with some really great chills. The best part about it all is that it didn’t require many fancy special effects. For the most part, it was all done with real live spiders. The story...

At first look ‘Changeling’ seems like another version of ‘Mystic River’ but Clint Eastwood never ceases to amaze me. Not only was ‘Changeling’ a really good movie to watch, it made me marvel at Clint Eastwood, who’s...

If you’re a music buff, you will probably enjoy ‘Cadillac Records’ a lot. The movie is about the rise of Chess Records. It is the label that popularised what was known as “race music” during a time racial segregation...

If any film deserves a spot on the list of best films of all time, Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” is it. While the film is first and foremost a comedy, Allen’s wildly creative direction transcends genre. Simply put – the...