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 [..]

Director Julie Taymor ("Titus" 1999) has put together an innovative musical romantic film called "Across the Universe." This love story between a lad from Liverpool, England, and a girl from Dayton, Ohio, contains 34 songs written by members of the Beatles. The [..]

"The Nines" is an unusual science fiction movie from director-screenwriter John August ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" 2005). It is divided up into three sections, with stars Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, and Melissa McCarthy taking part in each story. Elle Fanning, David Denman, Octavia Spencer, and [..]

"The Kite Runner" is a highly dramatic story of a man's childhood in war-torn Afghanistan. Director Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball" 2001) and screenwriter David Benioff adapted the film from the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. The Dari language was used in the [..]

Producer-director Robert Redford ("Ordinary People" 1980) made a war movie that tells the story about the connection between a reporter, a college professor, a U. S. Senator, and an Army platoon in Afghanistan in "Lions for Lambs" This project by Redford and screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan [..]

"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 [..]