"Adaptation" is a story from director Spike Jonze ("Being John Malkovich" 1999) about a writer's effort to adapt a book to screenplay. This unimaginative and myopic film from Jonze and screenwriters Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman is something only art house attendees will enjoy. Also members [..]

"Shoot or Be Shot" is a low-budget independent film starring William Shatner as an escapee from a psychiatric hospital who kidnaps a film crew and forces them at gunpoint to make a movie from his own screenplay. Producer-director-screenwriter J. Randall Argue put together [..]

The Last Days adventures of the Tribulation Force continue in "Left Behind II: Tribulation Force." This sequel to 2000's "Left Behind: The Movie," which concluded with the Rapture of the Church, picks up the story one week after the Rapture with hundreds of millions of people, who [..]

"Antitrust" is a techno thriller film about a young computer expert who lands a job at a big tech company headed by a famous Bill Gates type. Everything proceeds smoothly until he begins noticing some cracks in the company's supposedly perfect facade. Director Peter Howitt ("Sliding [..]

"Devotion" is the real-life story of two Navy pilots during the Korean War. Director J. D. Dillard ("Sweetheart" 2019) put together an dramatic film that balanced the friendship between Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner and great airplane action scenes. The excellent screenplay was written by Jake [..]

"Star Trek Nemesis" is the tenth in the film series that began with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, and the fourth featuring "The Next Generation" cast. The story has Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) discovering he has a clone after the Enterprise travels to the [..]

"Armageddon Time" tells the story of a young Jewish-American boy and his childhood experiences growing up in 1980's New York City. This well-written and superbly directed coming-of-age drama was drawn from the personal experiences of director-screenwriter James Gray ("Ad Astra" 2019). The overall tone of the [..]

Director-screenwriter Charlie Day has put together a real dud in his first job at the helm of a feature motion picture in "Fool's Paradise." It is billed as a satirical comedy film that tells the story of a movie producer who replaces a difficult star of his [..]

Many agree that one of the best movies ever made in the silent film era was "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ." It was a big hit at the box office and help establish Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a major studio, after being formed in 1924 by merging Metro Pictures, [..]

The Best Picture of 2002 is....."Chicago," one of the weakest films ever to win the Academy's top award of the year. This trite and one-dimensional storyline was from a mediocre screenplay by Bill Condon with uneven directing by Rob Marshall in his big screen debut. The [..]