"Little Man Tate" is a drama movie about a seven-year-old boy who is a child prodigy. His mother allows him to go to a summer camp for gifted children, hoping to give him experiences of life around other young geniuses. This excellent story was well-crafted by Jodie Foster [..]
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
"Sorrowful Jones" is the first of four films that Bob Hope and Lucille Ball appeared in together. This picture is more of a drama than the other three, but does have plenty of one-liners for Hope to deliver. Director Sidney Lanfield ("Swanee River" 1939) [..]
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
"Shadow of a Doubt" is a psychological thriller movie about a man from Newark, New Jersey, visiting relatives in Santa Rosa, California, where his niece slowly becomes suspicious that he is a serial killer on the run from the law. Director Alfred Hitchcock applied all of his signature [..]
The Critic (2023)
"The Critic" is the story about a theater critic in London in the 1930's who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with dire consequences. This slow-moving film gets bogged down in a morass of sloppy directing by Anand Tucker and a tedious screenplay by [..]
Best Sellers (2021)
"Best Sellers" is a comedy-drama film about a young woman who inherits a failed publishing company from her father. She attempts to revive the firm's fortunes by talking one of its most popular authors of the past into releasing something new, or something old, as he [..]
Hang ‘Em High (1968)
"Hang 'Em High" is a western film where Clint Eastwood plays a man who survives a lynching by a gang of nine men and later is offered a deputy marshal job, under the condition that he bring in the men for trial and not seek revenge on his [..]
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Doris Day and Danny Thomas star in "I'll See You in My Dreams," the biography of lyricist Gus Kahn, composer of such songs as "Making Whoopee" and "I'll See You in My Dreams." Director Michael Curtiz ("Noah's Ark" 1928) put together a winsome musical comedy from a decent [..]
Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
Ma and Pa Kettle become grandparents in the third installment of their Universal-International franchise. It is called "Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm" and has the plain-speaking couple and their fourteen younger children move out of their ultra-modern, all-electric home back into their old dilapidated farm [..]
Storm Warning (1951)
"Storm Warning" is a gripping drama about the illegal activities of the Kl Klux Klan in a small southern town. Ginger Rogers plays a model visiting her sister (Doris Day), and soon finds out that her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) is a member of the illegal organization. Ronald Reagan [..]
Royal Wedding (1951)
"Royal Wedding" is a lavish MGM musical production featuring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell in London at the time of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. Director Stanley Donen ("On the Town" 1949) pulled out all the stops with music by Burton Lane and [..]