"I'll Be Right There" is a comedy-drama film about a divorced middle-aged woman trying to balance her own romantic life with the needs of her family, like her mother's health concerns, her pregnant daughter's wedding plans, and her son's uncertain future. Edie Falco stars in the [..]

"Fort Apache" is a post-Civil War western about the clash between two Army officers over the treatment of Indians at Fort Apache, Arizona. John Wayne and Henry Fonda star in this film well-directed by John Ford ("My Darling Clementine" 1946) from an excellent screenplay by Frank S. Nugent. [..]

"State of the Union" is a political drama film about an aircraft tycoon who decides to run for President, and reunites with his estranged wife at the urging of his unscrupulous campaign manager. But when the wife learns of the unethical maneuvers of the manager, she raises a [..]

Jane Wyman delivers the role of a lifetime in "Johnny Belinda." Her riveting performance as a deaf-mute young woman who is raped earned Wyman the Academy Award for Best Actress, the film's sole Oscar win out of twelve nominations. The screenplay by Allen Vincent and [..]

"Easter Parade" is a musical film about a Broadway star whose dancing partner goes solo, and he must select a new one. His choice turns out to not be not a great fit in his act, and but he realizes he has problems when he starts [..]

"Key Largo" is a film noir drama about a World War II veteran visiting Key Largo, Florida, to pay his respects to a fellow soldier killed in action. Soon after arriving, he realizes that a big-time gangster is living at the hotel owned by the widow's [..]

"Red River" is a superior horse opera featuring John Wayne as a cattle rancher who finds he cannot sell his herd in the cash-poor post-Civil War South. So he simply decides to move the cattle from Texas to Kansas in this fictional account of the first [..]

The seaside town of Amity is once again troubled by sharks in "Jaws 2." Roy Scheider as the police chief thinks he spots the return of the familiar ocean predator from five year earlier. The mayor disagrees and fires him, with the drama proceeding from there. Director Jeannot [..]

"A Fistful of Dollars" is a western film featuring Clint Eastwood as a gunfighter who wanders into a Mexican town where a power struggle between the sheriff and three outlaws is in progress. Eastwood's "man with no name" anti-hero character plays the two sides against each other with [..]

"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" is a science fiction Christmas comedy that tells the story of the leader of the planet Mars, who is concerned that the children of Mars are becoming lazy from watching too much television from Earth. So he orders the kidnapping of old St. [..]