"Taken 2" features Liam Neeson back as Brian Mills, this time on holiday with his family only to be kidnapped by the father of one of the men he killed in "Taken" (2008) when he saved his daughter. Director Olivier Megaton ("Columbiana" 2011) and screenwriters Luc [..]

"Cloud Atlas" is an extremely ambitious project from directors-screenwriters Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and Andy Wachowski. With six storylines proceeding all at once in six eras, the group may have bitten off more than they could chew. The confusing and hard-to-follow film was adapted from the [..]

A good story performed by an outstanding ensemble cast accurately describes "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." This film from director John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love" 1998) tells the story of seven retirees from England who move to India to escape the high cost of living in their [..]

"Trouble with the Curve" is a pleasant baseball picture starring Clint Eastwood as an aging Atlanta Braves scout who relies on old methods and has trouble adapting to changes in Major League Baseball. This project is a perfect opportunity for Eastwood to put his talent and charisma [..]

"Arbitrage" is an absorbing crime drama movie about a hedge fund manager who has been "cooking the books" of his company as he nears retirement. People at the firm begin to get suspicious, including his daughter, who is employed there. To complicate matters, he crashes his [..]

"Skyscraper" is an action-adventure film about a former FBI agent and security specialist who must rescue his family from a Hong Kong skyscraper when terrorists set fire to the structure. Director-screenwriter Rawson Marshall Thurber ("We're the Millers" 2013) filled the movie with loads of action sequences (especially [..]

"Road Trip" is a road sex comedy movie from director Todd Phillips in his big screen debut. Phillips also wrote the screenplay, with Scot Armstrong, which tells the story of high school sweethearts who attend different colleges, in New York and Texas, and have trouble maintaining their [..]

The Best Picture of 2023 is....."Oppenheimer." Producer-director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan ("Tenet" 2020) has put together quite a cinematic extravaganza about the life and times of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his running the Manhattan Project in the early 1940's to a subsequent fall from grace in the 1950's. [..]

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actor Dwayne Johnson team up for a third time in "Red Notice." The story has Johnson playing an FBI agent tracking a missing artifact from the first century that was a gift from Roman general Mark Antony to Egyptian ruler Cleopatra. [..]

"Triple Frontier" is an action-adventure picture from director J. C. Chandor ("All is Lost" 2013) that tells the story of five U. S. Army Delta Force friends who reunite to plan a major heist of a South America crime kingpin. Despite an uneven storyline in the first [..]