The Best Picture of 1952 is....."The Greatest Show on Earth." This massive production from director Cecil B. DeMille ("Samson and Delilah" 1949) tells the story of life behind the scenes at Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus. The film includes comedy, drama, romance, high-rise thrills, [..]

"A Hologram for the King" is a drama-comedy film about a washed-up corporate salesman who travels to Saudi Arabia to propose a business deal with the royal family there. He gets help from a beautiful doctor and a wise-cracking taxi driver. Director-screenwriter Tom Tykwer [..]

"Sleeping Dogs" is a crime drama about a former homicide detective trying to solve a murder from ten years ago, even as he is suffering from memory loss. As he pieces together long-buried evidence, shocking details begin to emerge. This well-constructed and engrossing thriller [..]

"That Hagen Girl" stars Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple in a drama film in which small town gossips where they live speculate that young Temple is the out-of-wedlock child of the much older Reagan. There is excessive melodrama in this poorly constructed B-film from director Peter Godfrey ("Christmas [..]

"The Sea of Grass" is a western film starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn as a newly married couple who move to his massive million-acre ranch in New Mexico, where she discovers her husband's reputation as a tyrant. The western melodrama proceeds from there, very expertly directed by [..]

"Road to Rio" is one of the more high quality films in the "Road" movie series starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour. The story has Crosby and Hope stowing away on a cruise ship headed for Rio de Janeiro after they got into trouble in [..]

Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirley Temple star in the screwball comedy "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer." Dore Schary produced this RKO Radio Pictures film about a teenage girl's (Temple) crush on a much older man (Grant). Her older sister (Loy) disapproves, and the [..]

"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" is a comedy-fantasy film about a young widow who rents a seaside cottage in England which she discovers is haunted by the previous owner, a crusty old seaman. The thin premise for the movie is made believable by crisp [..]

"Harold and Maude" is a black comedy film about a young man who develops a close friendship with a 79-year-old woman. Director Hal Ashby ("The Landlord" 1970) actually does a good job at the helm of this movie, which is well balanced and intelligently structured with [..]

"Ride" is a crime drama movie about a retired rodeo rider and ex-con who needs money for his daughter's medical treatment, so he teams up with his son to rob banks. When their heist goes awry, they must work overtime to outwit the pursing police officers. [..]