Set in 1930 on the island of Martinique, "Sugar Cane Alley" tells the story of an elderly woman raising her grandson in the post-slavery, yet still plantation-based, sugar cane industry. She struggles to get him an education to escape the drudgery and poverty of physical labor. [..]

"Daddy Day Care" is a family comedy starring Eddie Murphy as a man who is laid off from his corporate job and starts a child day care in his home. Director Steve Carr ("Dr. Dolittle 2" 2001) and screenwriter Geoff Rodkey have created a watchable stock comedy [..]

The Best Picture of 2003 is....."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." This third and final installment of "The Lord of the Rings" series is certainly spectacular and did not disappoint the legions of fans of the books and motion pictures. It features [..]

Hollywood at its worst is exemplified in the romantic-comedy crime-drama "Gigli." Producer-director-screenwriter Martin Brest ("Scent of a Woman" 1992) presided over a film that has terrible writing, bad acting, virtually no production values, and lousy chemistry between the two stars, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. [..]

"The Reagans" is a high quality drama about President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy Davis Reagan. Director Robert Allan Ackerman was professional at the helm of this look into the life of the 40th U. S. President, with James Brolin and Judy Davis believable as the First [..]

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team up for the umpteenth time together in "Out to Sea." Their patented comedic style of friends constantly clashing on screen that began with "The Odd Couple" (1968) continues with this film, capably directed by Martha Coolidge ("Valley Girl" 1983) and also [..]

David Spade plays a former child star who has faded from public view and tries to make a come-back in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star." Director Sam Weisman ("George of the Jungle" 1997), producer Adam Sandler, and screenwriters Fred Wolf and David Spade created a comedy with [..]

"Fool Proof" is a heist film directed and written by Canadian filmmaker William Phillips, who failed to create an interesting or entertaining movie that audiences would pay money to view. This film was a flop at the box office in Canada and with critics. The story [..]

"The Merchant of Venice" is director-screenwriter Michael Radford's loose adaptation of Bill Shakespeare's famous play. Radford took so many liberties with the Bard's stage show (written between 1596 and 1598) that the movie is almost unrecognizable. As far as we know, this is the only feature [..]

"Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" is a documentary film about the 1974 kidnapping of socialite Patty Hearst by a leftist group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. Director Robert Stone expertly strung together stock news footage that featured interviews with Hearst's parents, SLA members, law enforcement officials, [..]