Will Ferrell plays a professional race car driver in the very funny sports comedy "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." Director Adam McKay ("Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" 2004) and screenwriters McKay and Ferrell have the right combination of laughs, satire, and some drama in [..]

"Bonneville" is a comedy-drama film that tells the story of three women on a road trip from Pocatello, Idaho, to Santa Barbara, with the goal of delivering the ashes of one of the women's deceased husband to his daughter. Three major stars, Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and [..]

"The Slanted Screen" is an interesting documentary film which takes a look how Asian-American males have been portrayed by Hollywood in movies and television. Producer-director-screenwriter Jeff Adachi, himself a Japanese-American, interviews some actors including Jason Scott Lee, Dustin Nguyen, James Shigeta, Will Yun Lee, Justin Lin, Tzi [..]

Forest Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland." Whitaker convincingly portrayed the President of Uganda (1971-1979) under the superb direction of Kevin MacDonald ("Being Mick" 2001) from an outstanding screenplay written by Jeremy Brock [..]

Producer-director Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd" is a fictional story telling of the beginning of the spy business at the Central Intelligence Agency. The consistency and pacing of the film is terrible, thanks to director De Niro and screenwriter Eric Roth. They alternate from brilliant [..]

A predictable plot and the obnoxious rants of Robin Williams pretty much describe "Man of the Year." Director-screenwriter Barry Levinson ("Diner" 1982) demonstrates little creativity or originality in creating this stale political comedy-drama. Williams plays Tom Dobbs, a popular host of a [..]

Tom Selleck has another winner with "Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise." Director Robert Harmon also returned for the third outing, ensuring that this made-for-television movie retains the class of its two predecessors. Selleck co-wrote the teleplay with J. T. Allen and Michael Brandman. [..]

"Polite Society" is a marital arts comedy film about a British-Pakistani teenager who aspires to become a movie stuntwoman. She pursues her dream despite discouragement from family and friends. British director-screenwriter Nida Manzoor has put together a film with a good combination of comedy, drama, and [..]

"Stranger Than Fiction" is an off-beat drama-comedy-fantasy film where Will Ferrell portrays a man who one day starts hearing a voice narrating his every move. He finds out that the voice belongs to a famous author, and the strange comedy and drama proceeds from there. Director [..]

Director-screenwriter Russell Crowe stars in his own "thriller" movie as a tech billionaire who holds a poker game for his close friends, which is disrupted by thieves breaking into his home to steal valuable art from his personal collection. The poorly written and unfocused script combined with [..]