"What we have here is a failure to communicate." This is a famous line from "Cool Hand Luke," a signature role of Paul Newman, where he plays a convict in a Florida prison camp in the 1950's who refuses to submit to the system. A big [..]

"The Cobbler" is a fantasy comedy-drama about a shoe repairman who is able to assume the form of anyone when he puts on their shoes, if it repaired by a stitching machine left to him by his grandfather. Director Tom McCarthy ("Win Win" 2011), [..]

"The Company You Keep" is a story where Robert Redford plays a man who has been hiding from the FBI for over thirty years, due to his activities as a Weather Underground operative and anti-Vietnam War militant in the 1960's and 1970's. He goes on the run [..]

"Coco Chanel" is a biopic about the life of the famous French fashion designer. Director Christian Duguay went though her life history with heavy emphasis on flashbacks. Shirley MacLaine played the older Chanel, while Italian actress Barbora Bobulova portrayed the younger Coco, taking up the bulk [..]

Science fiction movies filled with special effects have been very popular with the public in recent decades, and one of the first of this type was "The Lost World." It was released in 1925 by First National Pictures, one of the big studios at the time. [..]

"Kung Fu Panda" is the story of a panda named Po in the Valley of Peace in ancient China who is selected to defend his hometown from an upcoming attack from a vicious snow leopard. Po is at first reluctant, but proceeds with training from Master Shifu. [..]

Director Leonard Nimoy ("Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" 1984) and producer Harve Bennett have concluded the three-movie story arc with "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." With the Enterprise crew on the planet Vulcan, the Earth finds itself under attack by a mysterious alien probe, [..]

"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" is an uproariously hilarious comedy about a wealthy couple who try to help a homeless man by taking him into their home. There are lots of laughs in this film due to focused direction by Paull Mazursky ("Moscow on the Hudson" [..]

"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a spy comedy film about a bank clerical worker who stumbles into the world of international espionage. This just plain terrible movie suffers from a badly written screenplay, terrible acting, and lack of focus and poor execution by the director, which happens to [..]

"Three Amigos" is a Western comedy movie about three silent film stars who are mistaken for real heroes by residents of a small Mexican town suffering under the oppression of a group of bandits. In this spoof of "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), there are genuine comedic moments [..]