Film

This film was pure trash, but still I enjoyed it. Sometimes I like films that are silly and serve no real purpose. They let me escape from the pressures of everyday life. Madea Goes to Jail is a mix of comedy, a bit of...

Genre: Science Fiction Director: Alexander Mackendrick Starring Cast: Alex Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough An eccentric scientist develops a fabric that can never get dirty and will never wear out...

Men love watching heroes. As kids, we read Robin Hood and King Arthur. Then we got older and got into sports legends. Regardless of age, we want to be heroes. This is why “Casablanca’s” Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine is...

If I am made to watch another movie that has a nuclear power plant as its central theme, I will scream my lungs out. Someone I know actually described ‘Dance of the Dead’ as one of the greatest horror comedies ever’. I...

This tense, absorbing drama revolves around a cultured, educated ex-con who leaves prison after 15 years. Juliette Fontaine (played by Kristin Scott Thomas) comes to stay with her professor sister, Lea (played by Elsa...

Genre: Drama Director: Peter Bogdanovich Starring Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepperd Nothing much happens in the Texan town of Anarene, well nothing very different from thousands of other small towns...

The Academy Awards ended its first century of motion pictures by awarding its top prize to “American Beauty”. In a tradition of musicals, sagas and epics, the film seems a strange and unlikely addition. The plot follows...

Carver is one of those movies that the second it begins, I realize that it will be about the things which I absolutely detest! First, we are informed that the film we are about to watch is based on a true story. Ok...

God, I remember like it was yesterday going to see this 1970s film when it was a new release in theatres. It was the kind of movie that you didn’t go to without bringing along a full box of Kleenex. It was the story of...

Carlito Brigante is released from prison with the help of his corrupt lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld, played by actor Sean Penn. Carlito vows to change his old ways of crime and violence and live a straight life. He meets up...

Genre: Action Thriller Director: Peter Collinson Starring Cast: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill Charlie Croker has just been freed from jail but, far from going straight, Charlie is engaged in setting up his next...

I recently watched Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” and couldn’t even finish it. This disappointed me because it’s become a personal Halloween tradition. But films are permanent and don’t change. It is people that change...

Peter Shaffer’s original screenplay, “Amadeus”, may have nearly no historical accuracy to it all. And yet, it doesn’t have to; the story is compelling enough on its own. Anyone watching the film for the first time will...

Since author Truman Capote’s death in 1984, it seems as though there are as many films about him as there are adaptations of his writing. He led a bizarre life, but “Capote” hones in on the time he spent writing his...

This is a series that has only recently been released on DVD. It is a hit American television series that is still running and being filmed in the Hawaiian islands. It’s a drama and this first season gave us a lot of...

This is one of those British horror films of the 1950’s; so there isn’t much in the way of blood and guts. By and large, the thrills and chills are psychological. Dana Andrews plays an American psychologist, John...

If you like older films, this one is a classic that you will definitely want to see. It is a film about show business in its glory days and especially about the backstage life of the female thespians on Broadway as it...

Genre: War Director: J. Lee Thompson Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Stanley Baker A unit of commandos comprised of Allied and Greek soldiers, each with special skills, is formed by British intelligence with the...

Now, here’s something unique in the history of horror sci-fi movies: a sequel as good as the original. Writer-Director James Cameron wisely decided not to just give us another “haunted house in space”. Instead, he picks...

‘Lord of the Flies’ has some chilling scenes to it, and can be seen as an allegorical story for human society. A group of boys from an English school are shipwrecked, and they try to form their own society. Initially...