The saga of Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt comes to an end with "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." It is an excellent action-adventure spy film with Hunt's IMF team in a race against time to find The Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence that can destroy the [..]

"Beneath the Planet of the Apes" continues the saga of "Planet of the Apes" with a second spacecraft arriving on the planet searching for Chuck Heston. When they are reunited, the Earthmen realize that the apes are not their greatest threat. Director Ted Post [..]

"Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde" has Reese Witherspoon back in her role as Elle Woods, recently graduated from Harvard and moving to Washington, D. C., to campaign for animal rights. She has a tough go, but is helped out by a Congresswoman played by [..]

Angelina Jolie reprises her role as explorer Lara Croft as she tries to locate Pandora's Box before criminal elements seize it for their own evil purposes in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life." Dutch director Jan de Bont ("Twister" 1996) put together a high-quality action-adventure [..]

"The Last Rodeo" is the story of an aging and retired rodeo star who enters a high-stakes rodeo competition in order to make money to cover his grandson's medical expenses. Along the way he confronts issues of the past, makes new friends in the present, and discovers faith. [..]

John Wayne and James Arness go to post-war Honolulu to weed out communists in the labor unions there for the House Un-American Activities Committee in "Big Jim McLain." Director Edward Ludwig ("The Fighting Seabees" 1944) put together a dramatic black-and-white film noir political thriller that has [..]

"Legally Blonde" is a comedy film about a young woman who decides to get a law degree from Harvard to win back her former boyfriend and, in the process, helps to erase stereotypes against blondes. Director Robert Luketic ("Monster-in-Law" 2005) creates a formulaic comedy which nonetheless is very [..]

"Tora! Tora! Tora!" is a dramatization of the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of September 7, 1941. Directors Richard Fleicher (American sequences) and Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese sequences) put together an excellent epic motion picture that is accurate to [..]

"Beaches" is a story about the friendship of two women who meet as children and remain close buddies throughout the decades. Director Garry Marshall ("Young Doctors in Love" 1982) put together an engaging and engrossing musical comedy-drama that has a fast moving two hour running time. The script [..]

"The Wall" is a war film about two American soldiers in postwar Iraq who find themselves pinned down by a sniper and taking refuge behind a crumbling stone wall. Both are injured and shortly discover the sniper has all of the advantages. Director Doug Liman [..]