"Gran Turismo" is a sports drama that tells the real life story of how British teenager Jann Mardenborough transitioned from being a Gran Turismo video game player to professional race car driver. Director Neill Blomkamp ("Elysium" 2013) had his act together while constructing this film. It [..]

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a movie version of George Orwell's famous dystopian novel of the same name, published in 1949. The film is actually quite watchable despite dealing with dark themes of a futuristic society ruled by a socialist dictatorship. Credit goes to good direction by Michael [..]

"The Ice Pirates" is a science fiction comedy film telling the story of a future where water is a rare commodity, with pirates dealing ice on the intergalactic black market. Director Stewart Raffill ("Across the Great Divide" 1976), who co-wrote the screenplay with Stanford Sherman, provides some [..]

Drama in the U. S. Army enters center stage when a colonel impregnates his commanding officer's daughter and persuades her to have an illegal abortion, resulting in her death, in "Sweet Revenge." Director David Greene ("Friendly Fire" 1979) and teleplay writer Andrew Peter Marin probably had good [..]

"License to Kill" is a made-for-television crime drama film about a man who kills a teenage girl while driving under the influence of alcohol and evades legal prosecution, much to the frustration of the girl's parents. Drama inside and outside of the courtroom [..]

The Best Picture of 1928-1929 is....."The Broadway Melody." This musical melodrama is the story of two stage-struck sisters vying for the attention of the same man, an entertainer who is appearing in the same Vaudeville play. Although it is a good picture for its time, "Melody" [..]

"Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" continues the story that began in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." It has Admiral James T. Kirk and his bridge crew risking their careers absconding the decommissioned Enterprise to return to the restricted Genesis planet to recover Spock's [..]

"A Bigger Splash" is a psychological drama movie that tells the story of an internationally famous rock star who is vacationing on an Italian island with her boyfriend when an old flame unexpectedly joins them with his daughter. Italian director Luca Guadagnino has created quite a satisfying [..]

"Top Secret!" is a satirical comedy movie about an American singer who travels to East Germany to participate in a music festival, only to fall in love with a local girl and become involved with a resistance group. This wacky comedy from directors-screenwriters Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, [..]

"Arsenic and Old Lace" is a classic screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant as a drama critic who must deal with his two murderous aunts and other crazy relatives in Brooklyn, New York, as he becomes engaged to the girl next door, the daughter of a local minister. [..]