Adams’s Rib (1949)

Genre: Romance Director: George Cukor Starring Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell Mr and Mrs Bonner, Adam and Amanda (Tracy and Hepburn) are legal professionals. Each of them lands a new...

Sunshine Cleaning

As soon as one picks up a review about this movie and reads the premise, it is easy to think it will be a comedy. But that is not the case at all. This is a story of two sisters, Rose and Norah, who enter into a most...

Little Shop of Horrors

When you hear this title, you may think of the musical/comedy, but this review is on the 1960s movie made by Roger Corman. It’s said that he made it in four days when someone bet him that he couldn’t make a movie in so...

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Here’s an unusual movie to be found on a horror list! After all, Abbott and Costello are best known for comedy. Well, this movie has comedy, of course, but it also manages to throw in some chills. This isn’t such a...

Spartacus (1960) USA

Genre: Action/Adventure Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring Cast: Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton Originally released in 1960, one of the most iconic of the older classic Hollywood epics is...

Coraline

This is one of those animated stories that is great for children but can warm the hearts of adults as well. Coraline is a young girl so typical of kids today. Mom and dad have fallen on hard times, so the family is...

Little Miss Sunshine

What a funny little film! “Little Miss Sunshine” is a road film that follows none of the typical road film conventions. A middle-class family travels from their hometown so that the daughter can compete in a pageant...

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” plays a great trick on the audience: the lead characters are hilarious and likable, despite their criminal behaviour. The two have a quick, dry wit that often comes out in strange...

Step Brothers

This is a great comedy, but it shows a very real slice of life too. Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are two grown men who are still living at home with their single parents. They are somewhat spoiled, doted on, and have...

Coma

Here you have quite the modern suspense/horror movie, made all the more chilling by the fact that it could actually happen! It’s little wonder that fewer people signed up to be organ donors after this film was released...

Bruno

Bruno is about an Austrian fashion queen comes to America looking to find fame and fortune. Of course, Bruno is a homosexual who claims to be working as a reporter for a television network in Austria. Working his way...

Little Caesar (1931)

Genre: Mystery/Thriller Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring Cast: Edward Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell Little Caesar, often called the grandfather of the gangster movie, was produced at the beginning of the...

Star Trek

This latest (and supposedly last Star Trek film) is interesting in that it follows the original crew of the Star Ship Enterprise through the time before they served together. It is basically a prequel to the hit...

South Pacific (1958)

Genre: Musical Director: Joshua Logan Starring Cast: Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Mitzi Gaynor, Ray Walston The year is 1943; the place is the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. The US armed forces want to set up a...

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

‘Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ is yet another of the comedy/horror films that Abbott and Costello made together. This time, Boris Karloff joins them (for the second time) in the dual roles of Jekyll...

‘Colour of Night’

‘Colour of Night’ hit theatres during the summer of 1994. The movie did not experience success at the box office, but it did achieve success when it was released on video shortly afterwards. ‘Colour of Night’ was...

A Good Man is Hard to Find

This is one of those movies that you can enjoy a lot more if you’ve seen the stage play by David Payton. This movie is an adaptation of that play, but it contains enough differences to make it interesting. Even if...

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I thought it was time to watch this movie again, especially in preparation of going to see the new Star Trek picture in theatres this week. From childhood I had always enjoyed the original Star Trek television series...

“Bruce Almighty”

Jim Carrey may have one of the most inconsistent track records of any modern comedian, but with “Bruce Almighty”, he scores another win. Bruce is a down-on-his-luck reporter for a local news channel or, rather, he...

Shoulder Arms (1918)

Genre: War Director: Charles Chaplin Starring Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Albert Austin, Henry Bergman Chaplin is a soldier in the army at a training camp at the time of World War 1. Although his drilling company is not very...