"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. [..]

Producer-director Roland Emmerich ("White House Down" 2013) and screenwriter Wes Tooke did a remake of the 1976 film "Midway." It tells the story of the Battle of Midway which took place June 4-7, 1942, a crucial conflict in World War II that took place six months after [..]

Traditional Disney fantasy is kicked into high gear in "Maleficent." Angelina Jolie stars as the villain in this reimagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated classic "Sleeping Beauty." Jolie delivers a multi-layered performance as the complex queen of the fairy kingdom who casts a sleep curse [..]

The inferior sequel to the 2014 film "Maleficent" is out in theaters with a muddled plot, dark themes, and an obnoxious heroine. "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" has Angelina Jolie reprising the title role as a wicked witch that many in the audience find it difficult to root [..]