"Meg 2: The Trench" is an action-adventure movie about a group of scientists whose explorations of the deepest part of the ocean are interrupted by some giant sea creatures. They must escape by walking along the floor of the sea! Director Ben Wheatley ("Rebecca" 2020) put [..]

"The Retirement Plan" is a comedy-crime thriller movie about a woman in New York City who gets into trouble with criminals, and must send her daughter to her retired father in the Cayman Islands. Director-screenwriter Tim Brown has concocted a truly humorous thriller that has good pacing [..]

"The Miracle Club" is an Irish comedy-drama movie about a group of three women and a boy from Dublin on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in France. They seek miracles for health conditions but find healing in unexpected ways. Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan put together this feel-good and [..]

Jackie Chan stars as a martial arts master and Cantonese folk hero Wong Fei-hung in "The Legend of Drunken Master." Director Lau Kar-leung masterfully blends different fighting styles into the action of the film, including "drunken boxing," invented just for the original "Drunken Master" movie of 1978 [..]

"Jungle Fever" is a romantic drama film that explores the beginning and the end of an extramarital interracial relationship set in the urban backdrop of New York City. Producer-director-screenwriter Spike Lee explores the relationship from racial, marital, religious, moral, and social angles, forthrightly depicting reactions of people, [..]

"Punchline" shows that the stand-up comedy business is not all laughs. This mostly drama-based film tells the story of a talented young comic who helps a housewife break into a career as a comedian. There is a hint of "A Star is Born" (1937, 1954, 1976, [..]

Holiday hilarity prevails in "Scrooged," producer-director Richard Donner's updated version of "A Christmas Carol," first published by Charles Dickens in 1843. Bill Murray plays an autocratic head of a television network who gets visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. We all know [..]

Faye Dunaway heads a cast in a drama film about two couples who go on a search for one million dollars they think is buried on an island between Miami and Cuba. The four people soon turn against each other in dramatic fashion in "Midnight Crossing." [..]

"Willow" is a story developed by George Lucas that director Ron Howard ("Cocoon" 1985) brought to the big screen. The story follows a dwarf, played by Warwick Davis, who protects an infant from an evil queen. Top notch direction by Howard and a great screenplay by [..]

"Whisper Kill" is a suspense-filled crime drama about an investigative reporter and an associate pursuing a murderer. Director Christian I. Nyby II and teleplay writer John Bensink keep the 93-minute made-for-television film running smoothly, with Loni Anderson and Joe Penny in the starring roles. For some [..]