Diana Ross delivered an outstanding performance as legendary singer Billie Holliday in "Lady Sings the Blues." Though the film was criticized for playing fast and loose with the facts of her life, director Sidney J. Furie ("The Ipcress File" 1965) created a very entertaining film that has [..]

The trials and tribulations of a young race car driver are chronicled in "Days of Thunder." Director Tony Scott ("Top Gun" 1986) and screenwriter Robert Towne have filled this finely-crafted film with tons of car racing scenes, a good love story, and depictions of comradery among the [..]

"American Cousins" is a crime drama film about two New Jersey mafia guys forced to hide out with their Scottish-Italian cousin in Glasgow due to a deal in Europe that went sour. This unexpectedly nuanced film from Scottish director Dan Coutts, in his first job at the [..]

The true story of the Robertson family of "Duck Dynasty" fame is told in the faith-based film "The Blind." Director Andrew Hyatt, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Stephanie Katz, was firmly at the helm of this picture, with good writing, even pacing, outstanding performances, giving viewers [..]

"Dumb Money" is a comedy-drama film about the true story of the Game Shop "short squeeze" of January, 2021, where this company's stock unexpectedly rose, providing enormous profit to shareholders. Sloppy directing by Craig Gillespie ("Cruella" 2021) and untidy writing by authors of the screenplay Lauren Schuker [..]

Director Sylvester Stallone ("Paradise Alley" 1978) put together an action film where a group of elite mercenaries are hired to overthrow a Latin America dictator in "The Expendables." They soon discover that the despot is actually a puppet of a renegade CIA agent. Loads of drama [..]

Renee Zellweger delivers quite a tour-de-force performance as Pam Hupp, a Troy, Missouri, woman accused of murder in the mini-series "The Thing About Pam." It is a true story adapted from "Dateline NBC" reports of the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, whose husband is accused and convicted [..]

"The Bad News Bears" is a sports comedy film about an alcoholic ex-professional baseball pitcher hired to coach a youth baseball team called the Bears. Walter Matthau is perfect in the lead role as the coach who is a bit rough around the edges. Director Michael [..]

"Plane" is a riveting action thriller movie which stars Gerard Butler as an airplane pilot who must crash land a plane en route from Singapore to Honolulu (via Tokyo). As fate would have it, they had to make the emergency landing on a Philippine island controlled by [..]

"Empire of Light" is the story of employees at a movie theater in the coastal town of Margate, United Kingdom, in the 1980's. The main character is Hilary Small, the duty manager, whose struggles in life, particularly with bipolar disorder, begins to interfere with her job. [..]