Stephen King is one of the most successful writers ever, but films based on his books have been lackluster at best. While The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption often appear on lists of the greatest films ever made, others like…
A thin but undeniably enchanting film, Indiscreet marked the second pairing of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. In an age of romantic stars dressed in tailored tuxedos and elegant gowns, no onscreen couple looked as good as they did. Adapted…
The first live-action film from director Robert Zemeckis since Castaway twelve years ago, Flight is a movie about addiction that manages to include all of the elements of the genre while finding an innovative and powerful way to tell the…
An odd hybrid of documentary and historical reenactment, The Men Who Built America is an eight-hour mini-series that covers the period between the end of the Civil War and America’s entry into World War I. In that relatively brief time,…
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy is a touching film about an unlikely friendship. Set in the waning years of segregation, this is an example of the mutual understanding that managed to exist…
A second prequel to 2008’s Death Race, Death Race 3: Inferno picks up just after Death Race 2 ended. Essentially, the prisons have been taken over by private, for profit corporations. One of the ways the corporations make money is…
The Best Picture Oscar Winner of 1932, Grand Hotel was directed by Edmund Goulding (Dark Victory, The Razor’s Edge) and is based on the novel and play by Vicki Baum and the American stage version by William A. Drake. A…
Based on the fictional British housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs. Miniver was one of the first war movies to take viewers off the battlefield and into homes of people trying to…
Based on the novel by Chantal Thomas adapted by Benoît Jacquot and Gilles Taurand and directed by Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen (Les Adieux à la Reine), narrates the turmoil at Versailles in the week following the storming of the Bastille…
In August of 1926, the Warner Brothers introduced Vitaphone—an analog sound-on-disc system—with the release of their silent film Don Juan. While there was no dialogue, the movie had been retrofitted with a symphonic musical score and sound effects. While Don…