"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a romantic comedy about the friendship between a call girl and a young man who relies on an older woman for support. The capable direction by Blake Edwards ("Operation Petticoat" 1959) and the well-written screenplay by George Axelrod created quite a stylish film, but [..]

"Divorce Italian Style" is an Italian black comedy about a wealthy man in Sicily who wants out of his marriage to his homely wife so he can wed a younger and more attractive woman. Director-screenwriter Pietro Germi put together this hilarious look at marriage in Italy, or [..]

"No Way Up" is a disaster film about seven survivors of an airplane which crashes into the shark-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean on its way to Baja California. Swiss director Claudio Fah and the British producers actually did a good job of instilling this low-budget film with [..]

"Once Upon a Time in America" is an epic gangster film about members of the Jewish mob during the Prohibition Era, from their childhood through old age. Director Sergio Leone ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" 1966) was in control of the entire creative process, [..]

Classic Disney comedy is on full display in "The Absent-Minded Professor." Fred MacMurray plays Ned Brainard, a chemistry professor who gets so caught up in his invention of flubber that he forgets about his wedding plans, not once, but three times. (Flubber is "flying rubber" which picks up [..]

"I Am Number Four" is a science fiction action film telling the story of a teenage alien on earth on the run from other aliens from his home planet who are hunting him down. This passable scifi movie has the ring of familiarity, a storyline we [..]

"Sense and Sensibility" is the story of two sisters and their mother forced to move out of their home due to disinheritance by their father's will. Living in a cottage on the estate of a distant relative, the girls experience love, romance, and heartache. This [..]

"Barabbus" is a Biblical epic film telling the story of what could have happened to Barabbus, the criminal chosen by the crowd for release instead of Jesus Christ, just before His crucifixion, as recorded in all four Gospels. The film was produced by Dino De Laurentiis, a great [..]

Deborah Walley replaced Sandra Dee as surfer-girl Gidget in the second film "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" in 1961. Walley turned in a respectable performance in her big screen debut, capably directed by Paul Wendkos, who also was at the helm of the original "Gidget" in 1959. [..]

"Judgement at Nuremberg" is a fascinating look at the Judges' Trial of 1947, where four German judges and prosecutors were tried for their alleged part in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. This three hour film also examines the political situation in Europe with the Soviet blockade [..]