"Cousins" is a romantic comedy about two people whose uncle and mother marry, making them step-cousins. They become romantically involved, despite being married to other people. Director Joel Schumacher ("St. Elmo's Fire" 1985) and screenwriter Stephen Metcalfe came up with an empty story billed as a [..]

"Out Cold" is a dark comedy about a butcher and his wife whose marital problems reach a boiling point, or should I say a freezing point. Director Malcolm Mowbray ("A Private Function" 1984) guided this film with good pacing and plenty of laughs, from a well-written screenplay [..]

"Mister Roberts" is the story of a supply officer aboard a cargo ship in World War II who yearns for a transfer to a battle zone but is thwarted by the mean-spirited captain. Mister Roberts acts as a buffer between him and the crew. This classic [..]

When a gun fanatic (John Dall) and a carnival show sharp shooter (Peggy Cummins) get together, they soon become an expert pair of bank robbers in "Gun Crazy." B-movie director Joseph H. Lewis and screenwriters Dalton Trumbo and MacKinlay Kantor created a fast-moving crime film noir that [..]

The third pairing of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was in the comedy-thriller "See No Evil, Hear No Evil." It tells the story of a blind man (Pryor) and a deaf man (Wilder) teaming up to foil the activities of a group of murderous thieves. Director [..]

A classic George Bernard Shaw play received first class treatment on the British Broadcasting System. "Arms and the Man," a satire on the romanticizing of love and war and the human condition, was expertly directed by James Cellan Jones in this made-for-television movie. Producer Shawn Sutton [..]

The Best Picture of 1989 is....."Driving Miss Daisy." It is the story of a friendship between an elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her African-American driver, superbly directed by Bruce Beresford ("Crimes of the Heart" 1986), from a screenplay by Alfred Uhry, adapted from his own 1987 [..]

"Blackboard Jungle" is a drama about a man who takes a job as an English teacher in an interracial and inner-city school, and experiences difficulties with erratic behavior by some of the students. He is urged by his wife and others to seek other employment, but he [..]

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" is a British drama film about a thirty-something English widow who moves to a small town in Tuscany to escape her domineering in-laws. She falls in love with a 20-year-old Italian man, and when they find out, they send family and friends [..]