Particularly during the 1970’s, the late David Bowie often cast himself as a kind of ulterior being–something not of this world, a kind of Space Oddity. How appropriate then, that he play the role of an alien in Nicolas Roeg…
For every John Wick, Keanu Reeves seems to have a film that goes straight to video, or spends two minutes in the multiplex, only to be quickly forgotten. In the latter category, The Whole Truth, is an occasionally engrossing courtroom…
Based on true events, Battleground tells the story of a group of men in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Surprisingly realistic for the time, none of the men are heroic and…
Inferno is the third in a trilogy of films based on Dan Brown best bestsellers. Like the first two films, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Inferno stars Tom Hanks as art historian and cryptologist Robert Langdon, who…
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:…
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…
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…