Producer-director Robert Redford ("Ordinary People" 1980) made a war movie that tells the story about the connection between a reporter, a college professor, a U. S. Senator, and an Army platoon in Afghanistan in "Lions for Lambs" This project by Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan [..]
Dumb Money (2023)
"Dumb Money" is a comedy-drama film about the true story of the Game Shop "short squeeze" of January, 2021, where this company's stock unexpectedly rose, providing enormous profit to shareholders. Sloppy directing by Craig Gillespie ("Cruella" 2021) and untidy writing by authors of the screenplay Lauren Schuker [..]
The Expendables (2010)
Director Sylvester Stallone ("Paradise Alley" 1978) put together an action film where a group of elite mercenaries are hired to overthrow a Latin America dictator in "The Expendables." They soon discover that the despot is actually a puppet of a renegade CIA agent. Loads of drama [..]
The Thing About Pam (2022)
Renee Zellweger delivers quite a tour-de-force performance as Pam Hupp, a Troy, Missouri, woman accused of murder in the mini-series "The Thing About Pam." It is a true story adapted from "Dateline NBC" reports of the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, whose husband is accused and convicted [..]
The Bad News Bears (1976)
"The Bad News Bears" is a sports comedy film about an alcoholic ex-professional baseball pitcher hired to coach a youth baseball team called the Bears. Walter Matthau is perfect in the lead role as the coach who is a bit rough around the edges. Director Michael [..]
Endgame (2007)
Controversial right-wing talk show host Alex Jones takes on the globalist crowd in "Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement." Producer-director-screenwriter-narrator Jones presents his view that a group of people have been promoting a one-world government, with the use of eugenics. Jones does not specify exactly how [..]
Waikiki: Riding the Waves of Change (2007)
"Waikiki: Riding the Waves of Change" documents the history of Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, concentrating on the stories of the famed beach boys, locals who instructed tourists in the sport of surfing. This 53-minute documentary film from Pu'wawai Productions of Honolulu [..]
Plane (2023)
"Plane" is a riveting action thriller movie which stars Gerard Butler as an airplane pilot who must crash land a plane en route from Singapore to Honolulu (via Tokyo). As fate would have it, they had to make the emergency landing on a Philippine island controlled by [..]
Empire of Light (2022)
"Empire of Light" is the story of employees at a movie theater in the coastal town of Margate, United Kingdom, in the 1980's. The main character is Hilary Small, the duty manager, whose struggles in life, particularly with bipolar disorder, begins to interfere with her job. [..]
Music and Lyrics (2007)
"Music and Lyrics" is an innocuous romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, telling the story of a washed-up pop star attempting to revive his career by writing a hit song for a new singer. Grant's character receives help from his domestic help (Barrymore). [..]