"Home for the Holidays" is a comedy drama film about a woman going to her parents home for Thanksgiving dinner, along with all of the expected (and unexpected) family problems and conflicts. Director Jodie Foster ("Little Man Tate" 1991) put together an average film with limited [..]

"Home Alone 3" is a crime comedy film about an eight-year-old boy in Chicago who must fend off four bumbling international criminals who are seeking a top-secret microchip they had inadvertently stashed in his toy car. Sound familiar? That's because producer-screenwriter John Hughes has made this second sequel [..]

"East Side, West Side" is a crime drama about a philandering investment banker whose former mistress is found dead. There are several suspects, and it is up to the police detective and an investigative reporter to find out who the guilty parties are. Mervyn LeRoy ("Gold Diggers of [..]

"Thieves' Highway" is a film noir drama about a truck driver out for revenge against criminals who crippled his father and stole his truck. Director Jules Dassin ("The Naked City" 1948) tightly directed this melodrama from a lean screenplay by A. I. Bezzerides. It was adapted from [..]

John Wayne plays a retiring cavalry captain given some final assignments before his retirement in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." One is to smooth relations between the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian tribes after Custer's last stand, and the other is to transport the wife and niece [..]

Bob Hope's comedic talents are working on all cylinders in "The Great Lover." He plays a boy scout leader who takes his troupe on an ocean cruise, falls in love with a beautiful duchess, and is stalked by a serial killer. Great ingredients for [..]

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a musical film with Esther Williams playing the owner of a minor league baseball team, of which two players are also vaudeville performers, portrayed by Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. One would think this would be a formula [..]

"My Dear Secretary" is a romantic comedy where Kirk Douglas plays a successful novelist and playboy who cannot hold on to a secretary. He hires Stephanie, played by Laraine Day, an aspiring writer herself and a capable secretary who seems immune to Douglas' charms. The [..]

"Twisters" is a disaster film about two groups of storm chasers competing with each other as they investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. Also getting into the act is a reckless social media star who thrives on posting his adventures, the more dangerous the better. [..]

"Senior Moment" is a romantic comedy where William Shatner plays a retired Air Force pilot who has his drivers license taken away when he continually races around his home town of Palm Springs in his vintage 1955 convertible. Director Giorgio Serafini put together a formulaic romantic comedy-drama [..]