Alfred Hitchcock's fingerprints are all over "Stage Fright," a murder mystery set in the London theater district. The film was shot in England, with screenwriters Whitfield Cook, Alma Reville (Mrs. Hitchcock) and James Bridie providing excellent dialogue. The talented cast includes [..]
Home Alone 5 (2012)
"Home Alone 5: The Holiday Heist" is a made-for-television Christmas family film about ten-year-old Finn Baxter whose family recently moved from California to Maine. Finn is convinced that their new house is haunted by ghosts, so he sets up booby traps to catch them. He does not realize [..]
Labor Day (2013)
"Labor Day" is a drama film about a divorced woman and her thirteen-year-old son who encounter a man at the grocery story who clearly needs their help. He convinces them to let him stay at their house for a day or two until he can recover from a [..]
Home Alone 4 (2002)
Kevin McAllister is upset that his parents are divorced, and he must choose where to spend Christmas. He decides to go to his father and girl friend's mansion, where an unnamed foreign royal family is scheduled to arrive, with hijinks proceeding from there in "Home Alone 4: Taking [..]
Home for the Holidays (1995)
"Home for the Holidays" is a comedy drama film about a woman going to her parents home for Thanksgiving dinner, along with all of the expected (and unexpected) family problems and conflicts. Director Jodie Foster ("Little Man Tate" 1991) put together an average film with limited [..]
Home Alone 3 (1997)
"Home Alone 3" is a crime comedy film about an eight-year-old boy in Chicago who must fend off four bumbling international criminals who are seeking a top-secret microchip they had inadvertently stashed in his toy car. Sound familiar? That's because producer-screenwriter John Hughes has made this second sequel [..]
Twisters (2024)
"Twisters" is a disaster film about two groups of storm chasers competing with each other as they investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. Also getting into the act is a reckless social media star who thrives on posting his adventures, the more dangerous the better. [..]
Senior Moment (2021)
"Senior Moment" is a romantic comedy where William Shatner plays a retired Air Force pilot who has his drivers license taken away when he continually races around his home town of Palm Springs in his vintage 1955 convertible. Director Giorgio Serafini put together a formulaic romantic comedy-drama [..]
The Perfect Storm (2000)
"The Perfect Storm" is a disaster film telling the story of a fishing boat out of Massachusetts encountering three weather fronts which collide to produce the worst storm in modern history. Director Wolfgang Petersen ("The NeverEnding Story" 1984) manages to weave together a classic thriller from the script [..]
Wicked Little Letters (2023)
"Wicked Little Letters" is a black comedy film about anonymous poison pen letters written to law-abiding residents of a small town in England. A police investigation ensues, which took on special urgency when an elderly woman dies from a heart attack after reading one of the profanity-laced missives. [..]