Tom Cruise stars as a retired Army military police officer who gets involved with investigating crimes with local law enforcement in Pittsburgh., Pennsylvania. "Jack Reacher" is a watchable movie put together by director-screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie ("The Tourist" 2010) that is entertaining and holds the audience's attention throughout [..]

The first of a prequel movie trilogy to "The Lord of the Rings" series is the very watchable "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." Producer-director-screenwriter Peter Jackson has given us an almost three hour film with good performances, rife in 3D special effects, and more Middle Earth stories [..]

Producer-director-screenwriter Judd Apatow put together an entertaining comedy-drama film called "This is 40." It is a sequel of sorts to his 2007 product "Knocked Up," with this film continuing the story of the characters played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, who had support roles in the [..]

"Silver Linings Playbook" is a dull and mundane romantic comedy from director-screenwriter David O. Russell ("Three Kings" 1999). He adapted the material from the 2008 novel of the same name by Matthew Quick, which is basically art house/chick flick stuff. The actors [..]

Uneven direction, bad casting, and terrible writing plague the period musical film "Les Miserables." Director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech" (2010) and his screenwriting team based the movie on the stage play of the same name, so the roots of the problems in the film lie with [..]

Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a horrifying new AI weapon that could destroy the world if it falls into the wrong hands. The part they need to find is half of a fancy key to the weapon, or else, in "Mission: Impossible - [..]

"Zero Dark Thirty" is an historical drama that tells the story of the U. S. government's ten year search for Osama bin Laden, told through the eyes of Maya Harris, a CIA analyst tasked with being in charge of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader. Director Kathryn [..]

Manny, Sid, and the "Ice Age" gang are busy living their lives when Scrat the squirrel attempts to bury his acorn and triggers a continental break-up. "Ice Age: Continental Drift" from directors Steve Martino ("The Peanuts Movie" 2015) and Michael Thurmeier ("Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" [..]

The History Channel put together handsomely produced miniseries called "Hatfields & McCoys," based on the famous feud between two American families in the Appalachian Mountain region of West Virginia and Kentucky from 1863 to 1891. Director Kevin Reynolds ("Waterworld" 1995) and teleplay writers [..]

"A Dangerous Place" is a film about a woman who is drawn into a terrorist plot to kill people with a deadly strain of tuberculosis sent through the mail. Independent movie maker Gregory J. Corrado, who directed and wrote this project, is responsible for this disaster of [..]