"Beyond the Rocks" tells the story of star-crossed lovers featuring two of silent film's most popular stars: Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Director Sam Wood, who would continue working into the era of talkies, turning out classics like "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939), did an outstanding job [..]
Hocus Pocus (1993)
"Hocus Pocus" is a Halloween comedy film about three witches from 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, who are suddenly translated three hundred years into the future to 1993, on Halloween night. The three villainous and mischievous women cause all kinds of trouble and hijinks, contributing greatly to the [..]
Freelance (2023)
"Freelance" is an action film telling the story of a retired Army Special Forces agent who takes a job providing security for an American journalist as she travels to the mythical South American country of Paldonia to interview the president of the country. They run into trouble, as [..]
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold (2005)
Tom Selleck embarks on a new phase in his career playing the police chief of a small New England town in "Jesse Stone: Stone Cold." This made-for-television movie is the first in a series of nine films based on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels. The [..]
Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)
"Bad Girls from Valley High" is a teen comedy film someone should be ashamed to be associated with. That would be director John T. Kretchmer and screenwriters Robert Locash and Andrew Lane. This story of three high school teens causing trouble everywhere they go has horrible [..]
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)
New Zealand cinema has reached its zenith with "The World's Fastest Indian." It is the true story of New Zealand motorcyclist Burt Munro who longs to take his act to America, and succeeds through tenacity and perseverance. New Zealand producer-director-screenwriter Roger Donaldson ("Dante's Peak" 1997) put [..]
The Italian (2005)
"The Italian" is a moving Russian drama film about a six-year-old boy living in an orphanage who embarks on a search for his birth mother. This is in spite of the fact that he has been designated for adoption by an Italian couple; hence, he has been [..]
The Island (2005)
"The Island" is a science fiction thriller about two human clones living in an isolated community where residents are held for organ harvesting to benefit their human counterparts. Producer-director Michael Bay ("Pearl Harbor" 2001) and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci have a movie that heavily borrows [..]
Munich (2005)
Producer-director Steven Spielberg ("E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial" 1982) made a film that looks at the events surrounding the Israeli government's retaliation against the Palestine Liberation Organization for the murder of eleven of their athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in "Munich." The nearly three hour picture was [..]
The Honeymooners (2005)
A bad version of a moldy-oldy television series is brought to us courtesy of director John Schultz ("Like Mike" 2002) in "The Honeymooners." Schultz and the screenwriters (Barry W. Blaustein, Danny Jacobsen, David Sheffield, Don Rhymer) give us sloppy direction from a mediocre script, with the lines [..]