"The Young Victoria" is an interesting look at the early life of Britain's Queen Victoria. Director Jean-Marc Vallee ("Loser Love" 1999) and screenwriter Julian Fellowes created a classy period piece that depicts how the relationship between Victoria and her new husband moved from royal strangers to intimate [..]

"Bobby" is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968. Although director-screenwriter Emilio Estevez ("The War at Home" 1996) surely had good intentions in this memorial to Kennedy, [..]

"Wesley" is a biopic about John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist movement in the 18th century that later became the Methodist Church. Director John Jackman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Carolyn Haywood, crafted an excellent movie with a high caliber feel, including an [..]

"Eat Pray Love" is a typical Julia Roberts vehicle where she plays an America woman embarking on world travels after she goes through a painful divorce. Roberts delivers her usual charismatic performance, but with shallow material from a screenplay adapted from a 2006 book of the same [..]

There has probably never been such a low-key science fiction film as "Monsters." This interesting story takes place years after a NASA science probe crashes in Mexico, bringing extraterrestrial life with it. This leads to the northern half of Mexico becoming a quarantined zone. The [..]

"Leap Year" is a very predictable and formulaic romantic comedy starring Amy Adams as a woman who travels from Boston to Dublin to propose marriage to her commitment-shy boyfriend, based on the Irish tradition that men cannot refuse this offer on Leap Day. If it takes this [..]

"Cemetery Junction" is a run-of-the-mill "coming of age" movie about three teenagers in lower middle class England. Directors-screenwriters Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have made a boring film that is filled with cliches and foul language. It was a flop at the box office for Gervais/Merchant [..]

"Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story" tells us everything we need to know about the popular board game of Monopoly, but didn't know to ask. Producer-director-screenwriter Kevin Tostado went over everything from the history of Monopoly to visiting the World Championship held every four to six years [..]

"The Kids Are All Right" is a comedy-drama film from director-screenwriter Lisa Cholodenko ("Laurel Canyon" 2002). The story is about a lesbian couple whose two children contact their biological father, a sperm donor to one of the women. Comedy, drama, and general havoc then descends upon [..]

"What If..." is the inspiring story of a wealthy businessman visited by an angel who gives him a glimpse into what his life would have been like if he had not left his fiancee and a call to the ministry fifteen years earlier. [..]