With the surprise box office success of 1962’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Hollywood legends Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, director Robert Aldrich was hoping lightning would strike twice when he reunited the two stars for Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte…
Nicolas Cage turns up again as the Captain of the USS Indianapolis, the ill-fated naval ship first given big screen notoriety via a monologue in Jaws. Equal parts wartime weepie, shark attack movie and half-baked court room drama, USS Indianapolis:…
Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train offers up a few Hitchcockian inspired twists, but never explores the psychological torment or creates the level of suspense as accomplished in Rare…
Set just after the end of World War II in 1945, John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock is a suspenseful drama, film noir and a western. Based on the short story “Bad Time at Hondo” by Howard Breslin and…
I have a reputation for enjoying some pretty bad movies. I freely admit to spinning the Barbra Streisand version of A Star is Born once a year. Yes, the story is ridiculous and sappy, but Kris Kristofferson looks good, Streisand…
Based on the worst oil spill in U.S. history, Deepwater Horizon stars Mark Wahlberg as Mike Williams an electronics technician employed by Transocean, hired to dig a well in the Gulf of Mexico that will be pumped for oil by…
A 33-year old former dancer and Broadway chorus girl, Paul and McFadden’s world is turned upside down when her live-in boyfriend unexpectedly dumps her and leaves for Italy. Once again single, Paula must find a job to support herself and…
Based on the hit Broadway play by Frederick Knott, fifty years after its initial theatrical release, the last fifteen minutes of Wait Until Dark has lost none of its memorable bite. Audrey Hepburn received her fifth Oscar nomination for her…
Shallow and predictable, When the Bough Breaks wastes a talented cast on a domestic thriller that appears to have been inspired by the success of films like Fatal Attraction and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle but the genuine tension…
Ben Affleck’s third film of 2016, The Accountant finds him playing Christian Wolff, a self-described high-functioning autistic, with incredible math abilities and even better skills with a gun. He can process years’ worth of corporate ledgers in a single night…