Director Jon Watts and screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers improved on the storylines from their first two Spider-Man films from 2017 and 2019. Spoiler alert: "Spider-Man: No Way Home" features Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire returning in their former roles as Spider-Man as the current incumbent [..]

"Men in Black: International," the fourth in the "Men in Black" movie series (1997, 2002, 2012), has expanded its horizons to include women in black. Director F. Gary Gray ("The Fate of the Furious" 2017) and writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway have done the bidding [..]

"The Good Liar" is an engrossing story of a con artist who runs into unexpected problems when he tries to trick a widow out of her fortune. Veteran actors Helen Mirren and Ian McKellan are a pleasure to watch in this expertly produced cat-and-mouse game. [..]

"The Informer" is a crime thriller about a man released from prison on the condition that he work as an undercover informant for the FBI. Italian director Andrea Di Stefano does a good job of pacing the film, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Matt Cook and [..]

"Last Christmas" is a holiday romantic comedy set in London, with the charms of stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding on full display. They could not help this dud, however, with the predictable storyline by screenwriters Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings taking the glitter out of this [..]

The last major film appearance for Chadwick Boseman was in "21 Bridges," where he plays a New York police detective who shuts down the 21 bridges entering Manhattan Island to capture two alleged cop killers. The film is rife with drama thanks to director Brian Kirk, who [..]

Tom Hanks got an Oscar nomination for his stellar portrayal of popular television personality Fred Rogers in "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." Rogers' show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" entertained preschool audiences from 1968 to 2001. This role of the innocuous Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian minister, [..]

Producer-director Clint Eastwood ("Play Misty for Me" 1971) continues to put together high quality motion pictures with "Richard Jewell." The film is based on the true story of a security guard falsely accused by the FBI of planting the bomb that exploded at the 1996 Olympics in [..]

The popular English television show "Downton Abbey" has come to the big screen. Appropriately titled "Downton Abbey," the film has retained the flavor of the series thanks to producer-screenwriter Julian Fellowes, the creator of the show that ran for six seasons on the BBC, 2010 to 2015. [..]

The Best Picture of 2019 is....."Parasite." This South Korean film tells the riveting story of a poor family of four who infiltrate a wealthy couple's home by getting hired on as household help, with a scheme in mind of enriching themselves by stealing from their employers. [..]