Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal star in the modern-day screwball comedy "What's Up, Doc?" Under the expert guidance of director Peter Bogdanovich ("The Last Picture Show" 1971), the pair does quite well in this homage to the comedies of the 1930's and 1940's, with a well-written screenplay [..]

"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" is an off-beat western comedy film loosely based on the real-life Roy Bean (1825-1903), a Justice of the Peace/saloon keeper. The boring story and poorly written script reflect the declining career of director John Huston ("The Maltese Falcon" [..]

The Best Picture of 1972 is....."The Godfather." This epic gangster movie tells the story of a Sicilian Mafia crime family in the post-World War II era of 1945-1955, as the old order represented by Vito Corleone is fading out with a new generation of leadership phasing [..]

"Sleeper" is a science fiction comedy movie where Woody Allen plays the owner of a health food store who wakes up two hundred years into the future. He soon discovers that his business is in trouble in light of recent scientific discoveries that foods like donuts and [..]

"Mean Streets" could also be called "Boring Streets." The screenplay by Mardik Martin and Martin Scorsese drearily depicts the low life activities of young Italian-Americans in New York's Little Italy. Robert De Niro plays a small time hood who gets in over his head in debt to a [..]

"The Way We Were" is the story of a couple whose opposite backgrounds and political beliefs get in the way of their relationship. This love story, set from the 1930's to the 1950's, was skillfully crafted by director Sydney Pollack ("Jeremiah Johnson" 1972) from the screenplay by [..]

Steve McQueen provides film buffs with the best performance of his career in "Papillon." He was literally absorbed into this role about a Frenchman wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at the infamous prison Devil's Island in French Guiana in South America. McQueen won a [..]

"Live and Let Die" is the first James Bond film to feature Roger Moore in the title role. The movie produced mixed results, with the good new being Moore put his own stamp on 007 with his sarcastic wit, numerous puns, and more of an English [..]

"Soylent Green" is a science fiction story set in the year 2022 when the earth is over-populated and people are underfed. Most of the world's population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. One of the board members is murdered, and a police detective played [..]

"Day for Night" is a comedy-drama film about the goings-on in the lives of a cast and crew as they are shooting a motion picture. Director-screenwriter Francois Truffaut did an outstanding job of making a film within a film. It is often stated that some of [..]