"And So It Goes" tells the story of a widower suddenly given the responsibility of caring for his nine-year-old granddaughter. Michael Douglas rises to the challenge of this role, playing opposite Diane Keaton, who is his fellow-widowed neighbor. The easy-going personas of both actors are perfect [..]

"Beyond" is an independent British film about a couple working out their marital problems as a fifty mile wide asteroid approaches the earth. If this doesn't confuse the viewers, the series of flash-forwards of the characters in a post-apocalyptic Scotland will. This [..]

"This is Where I Leave You" is comedy-drama movie about the goings-on in a family when four adult siblings gather at their parents' house when their father passes away. Sluggish direction by Shawn Levy ("Cheaper by the Dozen" 2003) and lackluster writing by Jonathan Tropper make this [..]

Kristen Bell returns as "Veronica Mars," a role she played on the television series of the same name from 2004-2007. The creator of the show, Rob Thomas, returns as producer, director, and screenwriter of the film, which did not do well at the box office but was [..]

"The Good Lie" is a drama about three siblings who survive the Second Sudanese Civil War of 1983-2005 and win a lottery to emigrate to the United States. The story follows their assimilation into American life and provides some unexpected twists and turns in the plot that [..]

"Black or White" is the story of a wealthy white attorney dealing with the custody of his bi-racial granddaughter after the death of his wife. They had custody of her, but the girl's African-American grandmother's lawsuit against him for custody is at the center of the plot. [..]

Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of famed physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything." Redmayne delivered a very inspiring performance as one of the world's most brilliant men, who was stricken with motor neuron disease (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's [..]

The Best Picture of 2014 is....."Birdman." This off-beat black comedy-drama film from producer-director-screenwriter Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu tells the story of a theatrical production, as it follows Michael Keaton playing a faded star attempting to put together a Broadway play. The bottom line about "Birdman" is that [..]

Producer-director Clint Eastwood ("Play Misty For Me" 1971) has another motion picture gem on his hands with "American Sniper." It tells the true story of Chris Kyle, the most effective marksman in U. S. military history. Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall focused like a laser beam [..]

Producer-director Ridley Scott ("Alien" 1979) takes some liberties with the Biblical text in his movie version of the life of Moses in "Exodus: Gods and Kings." In the process, much of the drama of Moses' confrontation with Pharaoh, the ensuing plagues, and the crossing of the Red [..]