"Moneyball" is a true baseball story about the 2002 season of the Oakland Athletics where manager Billy Beane attempted to assemble a competitive team on a limited budget. Beane and his assistant manager Peter Brand use undervalued talent (new players and "washed-up" veterans) to replace higher paid [..]

"Switchmas" is a delightful holiday film centered around child actors Elijah Nelson as Ira Finkelstein and Justin Howell as Mikey Amato, who become acquainted in an airport rest area, waiting to transfer flights. Ira (from Los Angeles), being raised Jewish and never celebrating the holiday, wants a [..]

"Courageous" is a faith-based drama film about five men working out their Christian faith in every day living. They attend the same weekly Bible study, and the film goes into details of their intertwined lives. Expert directing by Alex Kendrick ("Fireproof" 2008) gave the movie good [..]

There is not a dull moment in "Unknown," a mystery-thriller film starring Liam Neeson as an American traveling to Germany for a medical convention, accompanied by his wife. Upon arrival at their hotel, he discovers his briefcase is missing. So he takes a cab back to [..]

Good acting, a well written script, and loads of suspense combine to make director Steven Soderbergh's latest film "Contagion" quite a drama to watch. The story tells of a virus that spreads rapidly around the globe via personal contact. Hundreds of thousands are infected in a [..]

"Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol" is probably the best of the lot so far in Tom Cruise's modern interpretation of the television series that ran on CBS from 1966-1973. Ethan Hunt and his team attempt to track down a terrorist who has acquired Russian nuclear launch codes, [..]

"Hugo" is an unusual story of an orphan boy living in a train station with some inventions left to him by his father. Director Martin Scorsese ("Goodfellas" 1990) and screenwriter Josh Logan made this engrossing movie with great production values, adapted from the 2007 children's book "The [..]

The Apollo space program was started in the 1960's to take men to the moon, and ended with Apollo 17 in December, 1972. Apollo 18, 19, and 20 were cancelled because of budget cuts. Director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego's film "Apollo 18' contends that Apollo 18 was actually [..]

Yet another version of "Planet of the Apes' has been released. The FX-laden "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is the seventh installment of the franchise that started with the 1968 Charlton Heston original. This story features James Franco as a scientist whose experiments in [..]

Something old (Harrison Ford), something new (Daniel Craig), something borrowed (plots and storylines), and something blue (the skies of New Mexico) are all featured in this marriage of two film genres, "Cowboys & Aliens." Producers Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard have created a [..]