"The Thief of Bagdad" is a swashbuckler action silent movie that tells the story of a small-time street thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. Director Raoul Walsh and producer-star Douglas Fairbanks skillfully made this film into what is universally acclaimed [..]

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" is a psychological thriller movie about a con artist who is sent from New York City to Italy to persuade a young millionaire playboy to return home. After failing, he takes extreme measures and the situation rapidly disintegrates. British director-screenwriter Anthony Minghella [..]

"Tears of the Sun" is an action film telling the story of a U. S. Navy SEAL team sent on a rescue mission in a civil war in Nigeria. They are to extract an American doctor from her jungle hospital before a vicious group of rebels reach [..]

An all-star cast is featured in this exciting thriller about a government coverup of a Mars landing hoax. "Capricorn One" has obvious influences of the 1970's Watergate/Vietnam War era, capably put together by director-screenwriter Peter Hyams ("Peeper" 1975), guiding actors to wonderful performances and giving the project [..]

Director Martin Scorsese's attempt to salute the musicals of the 1930's and 1940's largely stumbled and fell on its face. "New York, New York" is a victim of sloppy directing with amateurish dialogue from a bad script, over-acting (especially Robert De Niro), and dumpy looking sets. [..]

"Pete's Dragon" is Walt Disney's story of a boy named Pete and his pet dragon. The cast is of this musical fantasy movie is live-action except for the title character, the animated dragon named Elliot, Pete's friend and protector. Director Don Chaffey [..]

Burt Reynolds is at the top of his game in "Smokey and the Bandit," the story of two truckers attempting to smuggle a truck load of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia. First time director Hal Needham made sure the film is filled with laughs [..]

"Semi-Tough" is a sports comedy-drama movie starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh. The plot features a love triangle between the three and includes a parody of Werner Erhard's New Age EST seminars, all set in the world of U. S. professional football. [..]

"Bobby Deerfield" is a romantic drama film where Al Pacino plays a famous American race car driver who falls in love with a terminally ill Swiss woman. Producer-director Sydney Pollack ("Three Days of the Condor" 1975) kept an even keel at the helm of this movie, basically an [..]

"The Man from Toronto" is an action comedy film about a bumbling fitness trainer who gets confused with a professional assassin, known for vicious torture, when he accidentally goes to the wrong cabin at an Airbnb. Director Patrick Hughes ("The Expendables 3" 2014) assembled this humorous movie that [..]