Director Christopher Nolan ("Insomnia" 2002) has lifted the Batman story out of its cartoonish origins and turned the franchise into high drama. "Batman Begins" with the tale of Bruce Wayne's fear of bats as a child, the death of his parents at the hands of a mugger, [..]

The Best Picture of 2005 is....."Crash," probably one of the most skillfully crafted motion pictures of all time. Producer-director Paul Haggis wove together several storylines to form the film, winning three Oscars. Haggis co-wrote the screenplay with Robert Oresco, for which they won the [..]

A new version of "The Poseidon Adventure" from director John Putch is telling the same story but updates things with modern special effects and a post-9/11 emphasis on terrorism. It tells the familiar tale of the SS Poseidon capsized by a terrorist bombing, instead of a huge [..]

"The Birth of a Nation" moved the motion picture industry into the modern era with its innovative film techniques. Producer-director-screenwriter D. W. Griffith was the first movie director to use panoramic long shots, night photography, panning camera shots, and a carefully staged battle scene with hundreds of [..]

Director Martin Scorsese ("The King of Comedy" 1982) has put together an epic crime drama set in the 1920's about a series of murders on the Osage Nation Indian reservation after the discovery of oil in "Killers of the Flower Moon." Scorsese has incorporated very high production [..]

"The Shaggy Dog" is a terrible remake of the 1959 movie of the same name that tells the story of a man who is turned into a dog. Stupid comedy scenes ensue, with Tim Allen as the unfortunate human, replacing Fred MacMurray from the very superior original. [..]

"Friends with Money" is a comedy-drama story about a single woman working as a maid who has three affluent friends she spends time with. Director-screenwriter Nicole Holofcener ("Lovely and Amazing" 2001) put in enough humor to make this a watchable film in a "chick flick" sort of [..]

"The Da Vinci Code" is billed as a mystery thriller but in reality is a poorly written and sloppily directed story that seems to be an attack on the world of the Christian religion. Producer-director Ron Howard ("Splash" 1984) and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman put together a bloated [..]

"The Black Hole" is the story of the formation of a black hold in St. Louis, Missouri, after a malfunction at a particle accelerator facility. An energy-consuming creature comes out of the black hole and wreaks havoc on the city of St. Louis. This made-for-television movie [..]

"Kelly's Heroes" is a World War II heist film about some America GIs who go AWOL to rob a French bank, behind German lines, of gold bars that actually belong to the Nazis. The comedy on display in this movie is not traditional World War II fare, [..]