Criterion | 1957 | 96 mins. | NR A bomb at the time of its release in 1957, Sweet Smell of Success was largely thought to be a thinly veiled attack on Walter Winchell, who for decades had been the…
Touchstone Pictures | 2010 | 105 mins. | PG Kristen Bell made her name playing a high school outcast as the title character on televisions Veronica Mars. From there, in the movie Fanboys, she slipped comfortably into a Princess Leia…
MGM | 1991 | 130 mins. | R As a frequent moviegoer, I was thrilled when Thelma & Louise showed up at my local multiplex in 1991. After years of waiting, there was finally an honest-to-goodness female buddy picture that…
Paramount | 2010 |111 mins. | PG In Waiting for Superman, director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) closely examines the public-education system in the United States by following a group of students as they apply to charter schools in different…
Disney | 1951 | 75 mins. | G Over the years, there have countless adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. However, it’s Walt Disney’s 1951 animated classic that stands out from the crowd…
Warner Bros. | 1985 | 153 mins. | PG When The Color Purple hit theaters back in 1985, I didn’t quite know how to feel about it. Though I was only twelve at the time, I had read Alice Walker’s…
MGM | 1990 | 234 mins. | PG-13 To date, Dances With Wolves is by far actor/director Kevin Costner’s best work. Aided by writer Michael Blake, Costner used the Civil War as a background for the story of Dances With…
Paramount | 2009 | 112 mins. | R It’s hard to believe now, but there was actually a time during the early days of the internet (the early to mid ‘90’s), when people wondered if the technology would ever really…
Criterion | 1991 | 98 mins. | R An international breakthrough for Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991’s The Double Life of Veronique is one of those films that gives the viewer bits and pieces of the story, but then leaves…
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 114 mins. | PG-13 Why is it that when actors experience success on television, they suddenly decide their too big for the medium? I mean, what’s wrong with making movies during the summer hiatus? The…