The latest version of "The Great Gatsby" certainly is spectacular and has been given the full Hollywood treatment: Big name stars, lavish art-deco sets made for 3D, and even a rocking film score produced by Jay-Z and The Bullitts. Producer-director-screenwriter Baz Luhrmann ("Australia" 2008) added another [..]

"Star Trek Into Darkness" is an exciting twelfth installment in the "Star Trek" movie franchise, sequel to the 2009's "Star Trek" reboot. Producer-director J. J. Abrams and screenwriters Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof brought back some familiar characters like Khan Noonien Singh, Christopher Pike, Dr. [..]

"The Numbers Station" is a run-of-the-mill formula spy thriller that is good enough to hold viewer's interest for 89 minutes, especially on DVD. Danish director Kasper Barfoed did a respectable job in his English language film debut, with the screenplay by F. Scott Frazier. [..]

Director-screenwriter Nicole Holofcener ("The Land of Steady Habits" 2018) has created an entertaining little film called "You Hurt My Feelings." It stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a wife of a therapist and features the amusing daily conversations they have together, and with their son, her sister, and their [..]

Gerard Butler plays a CIA operative stranded deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan who must fight his way out with his translator in the action picture "Kandahar." On the positive side, director Ric Roman Waugh, who worked with Butler on "Angel Has Fallen" (2019), has created a [..]

Walt Disney Pictures continues with their habit of recent years in remaking nearly all of the classic films, this time redoing "The Little Mermaid," a new live action version of the 1989 animated feature. Director Rob Marshall ("Mary Poppins Returns" 2018) and screenwriter David Magee have retained [..]

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco drew upon his own family's experiences when he created the comedy film "About My Father.'' Though the movie is mildly entertaining, material from a comedian's standup routine does not always translate into big screen hilarity. Maniscalco co-wrote the screenplay with Austen Earl; the [..]

"Montana Story" is a fine film about two siblings who return to their family farm after their father falls into a coma. Haley Lu Richardson and Owen Teague deliver outstanding performances as a sister and brother who work through past differences and family problems. They have [..]

"Beast" is an exciting action horror film where Idris Elba plays a man who takes his two daughters "on safari" to a South African game reserve, only to find themselves fighting for survival when they are hunted down by a ferocious man-eating lion. Although something like this [..]

Vin Diesel has continued the story of "Fast and Furious" with the tenth film in the franchise called "Fast X." In this action-packed sequel, Jason Momoa plays a man who is out for revenge on Dominic Toretto and family for the death of his drug dealer father [..]