"Marlowe" is a neo-noir movie starring James Garner as Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe, who has been hired by a young woman from Kansas to find her missing brother. This movie never really takes off due to unfocused direction by Paul Bogart and a mediocre screenplay [..]

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is something of a psychological study of a teacher at a girl's school and her six favorites in the class. Maggie Smith's layered performance of Jean Brodie, who is noted for displaying signs of narcissism, won her the Oscar for Best [..]

Elvis Presley's second-to-last movie was quite an engaging affair. "The Trouble with Girls" is the story of a traveling entertainment group's visit to a small town in Iowa in 1927. Director Peter Tewksbury ("Stay Away, Joe" 1968) put together the film with good production values, including creative filming [..]

"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is a comedy-drama film about two couples dealing with the shifting mores of the 1960's. One couple, Bob & Carol Sanders (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood), return home from a retreat with a willingness to look into subjects like open marriage. [..]

Director Sam Peckinpah's eclectic western film tells the story of a group of aging gunfighters trying to make their way in the increasingly modern world of 1913. Although the film was well written by Peckinpah, Walon Green, and Roy N. Sickner, many criticized the graphic violence and low [..]

"The Kill Room" is a comedy that tells the story of an art dealer who teams up with a hit man in a money-laundering scheme that unwittingly turns him into an avant-garde sensation in the art world. Director Nicole Paone put together this "comedy" that really has [..]

"Cactus Flower" is an amusing romantic comedy about a dentist involved in a complex love triangle. He tires of his young girl friend, and tells her that he is married with children. He asks his secretary to pose as his wife, and the lies compound as [..]

"Charro!" is a western drama where Elvis Presley plays a reformed outlaw whose old gang tried to frame him for the theft of a gold-plated cannon, used by Emperor Maximilian against Benito Jaurez. Director-screenwriter Charles Marquis Warren ("Seven Angry Men" 1955) created a film with poor writing [..]

"Bull Durham" is a baseball movie about goings-on with fans and players of a minor league baseball team. Director-screenwriter Ron Shelton skillfully wove elements of baseball, comedy, and a love story all into one film, drawing upon his own experiences as a minor league baseball player. [..]

"True Grit" is a western movie that tells the story of U. S. Marshall Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn who is hired by a fourteen-year-old girl to search for the murderer of her father. They are soon joined by a Texas ranger, also seeking to bring the man [..]