A good script, a wonderful ensemble cast headed by a major star, and a setting in Hawaii all combine to make "The Descendants" one of the best movies of 2011. George Clooney stars as attorney Matt King, a man with a lot on his plate. His [..]

Kathleen Turner returns to the big screen playing a dying millionaire who suddenly has numerous relatives kissing up to her to inherit some of her fortune in "The Estate." Director-screenwriter Dean Craig ("Love, Wedding, Repeat" 2020) has inculcated this black comedy with so much coarse language and [..]

"The Old Way" is a western drama starring Nicolas Cage as a farmer and retired gunman who goes on a mission to find the outlaws who killed his wife. Director Brett Donowho ("Acts of Violence" 2018) and screenwriter Carl W. Lucas put together an enjoyable and watchable [..]

For some reason, Walt Disney Pictures decided to make a second "Haunted Mansion" movie twenty years after the first one was released. Director Justin Simien ("Dear White People" 2014) and screenwriter Katie Dippold created a winsome and generally entertaining new product that tells the story of a [..]

Director Greta Gerwig ("Little Women" 2019) and her new film "Barbie" have taken the entertainment world by storm. Based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, this first live-action Barbie movie (after several animated features) tells the story of Barbie and Ken as they leave Barbieland to [..]

"Skyscraper" is an action-adventure film about a former FBI agent and security specialist who must rescue his family from a Hong Kong skyscraper when terrorists set fire to the structure. Director-screenwriter Rawson Marshall Thurber ("We're the Millers" 2013) filled the movie with loads of action sequences (especially [..]

"Road Trip" is a road sex comedy movie from director Todd Phillips in his big screen debut. Phillips also wrote the screenplay, with Scot Armstrong, which tells the story of high school sweethearts who attend different colleges, in New York and Texas, and have trouble maintaining their [..]

The Best Picture of 2023 is....."Oppenheimer." Producer-director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan ("Tenet" 2020) has put together quite a cinematic extravaganza about the life and times of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his running the Manhattan Project in the early 1940's to a subsequent fall from grace in the 1950's. [..]

Director Rawson Marshall Thurber and actor Dwayne Johnson team up for a third time in "Red Notice." The story has Johnson playing an FBI agent tracking a missing artifact from the first century that was a gift from Roman general Mark Antony to Egyptian ruler Cleopatra. [..]

"Triple Frontier" is an action-adventure picture from director J. C. Chandor ("All is Lost" 2013) that tells the story of five U. S. Army Delta Force friends who reunite to plan a major heist of a South America crime kingpin. Despite an uneven storyline in the first [..]