"The Cannonball Run" is a classic Burt Reynolds vehicle where he and his friends tell inside show-biz jokes while involved in a cross country car race. Capable direction by former stuntman Hal Needham ("Smokey and the Bandit" 1977) with a thin screenplay by Brock Yates, along with [..]

"Rich and Famous" is a drama film that follows the friendship of two women from their college graduation in 1959 to 1981. The duo is portrayed by Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen, whose acting styles are very different. Bisset delivers her usual subtle performance, while Bergen [..]

Lily Tomlin plays a suburban housewife who begins to shrink after exposure to an experimental perfume in "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." Director Joel Schumacher (in his big screen debut) and screenwriter Jane Wagner do quite well in creating this spoof and comedy version of the 1957 science [..]

"Eye of the Needle" is an exciting spy thriller about a German secret agent in Britain during World War II who discovers plans about the imminent Allied D-Day invasion of France. He is unable to transmit the information, so he tries to flee to Germany but is [..]

Anthony Hopkins won a Primetime Emmy Award for this portrayal of Adolph Hitler during the final weeks of his life in "The Bunker." Hopkins played the infamous dictator as sometimes depressed, sometimes in denial, sometimes feeling betrayed, but always being justified in his Third Reich "mission" to [..]

"The World of Suzie Wong" is a romantic drama film starring William Holden as an American businessman who moves to Hong Kong to pursue a career as an artist. He hires a local girl to pose for him, and complications arise when he falls in love with her [..]

As remakes go, 1981's "The Postman Always Rings Twice" from director Bob Rafelson ("The King of Marvin Gardens" 1972) has enough melodrama to keep viewers interested, minus the allure and charisma of the original 1946 black-and-white noir thriller starring Lana Turner and John Garfield. [..]

"The Man of Destiny" is the fictional story of a young Napoleon Bonaparte arriving at an inn in Italy on the verge of one of his great victories. This made-for-television movie was well directed by Desmond Davis from one of George Bernard Shaw's least known plays; the [..]

Alan Alda makes an attempt to write and direct a major motion picture with mixed results. "The Four Seasons" is the story of three married couples who vacation together four times a year. One of the couples break up and the others are left to adjust [..]

"Pennies from Heaven" is a romantic comedy is about a sheet-music salesman in the 1930's whose business is failing and his marriage is not doing very well either. Director Herbert Ross ("California Suite" 1978) put together a flat and dull story with a poorly written screenplay by [..]