"Drive" is a heist film where a movie stunt driver moonlights as a getaway driver for bank robbers. Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn ("Bronson" 2008) and screenwriter Hossein Amini put together an adequate action film based on the 2005 novel by James Sallis. It was [..]

"Message in a Bottle" is a run-of-the-mill romantic drama about a reporter who finds a love letter in a bottle while walking on the beach, and subsequently publishes the letter. She tracks down the author and falls in love with him without disclosing all of the details of [..]

"Sergeants 3" is a western comedy where three fun-loving U. S. Army sergeants in the Old West are captured by Indians, and their lives get serious when they must find a way to warn their regiment of plans of an impending ambush. Director John Sturges ("Bad [..]

Jane Fonda plays a notorious outlaw who is set to be executed when fate intervenes in the western comedy "Cat Ballou." Director Elliot Silverstein ("A Man Called Horse" 1970) puts together an entertaining show from a good script by Walter Newman and Frank Pierson. [..]

Clint Eastwood stars as a recently-widowed retiree, alienated from his family, who must also deal with the increased presence of gangs in his neighborhood in "Gran Torino." Eastwood directed this excellent drama with comedic elements from a sterling screenplay by Nick Schenk, who developed the story with Dave [..]

"Man on Fire" is an action-adventure thriller movie where Denzel Washington plays an ex-CIA operative who takes a job as a body-guard for the 9-year-old daughter of a wealthy businessman. Events take a rough turn when some lowlife criminals kidnap the girl. Tony Scott ("Crimson Tide" 1995) tightly [..]

"There Will Be Blood" is a drama film about an oilman who attempts to get rich in the oil boom in Southern California in the early 1900's. Daniel Day-Lewis delivers quite a tour de force in the lead role under the expert direction of Paul Thomas [..]

Christopher Walken plays a man who moves in with his ailing father and a grown son he barely knows in "Around the Bend." Director-screenwriter Jordan Roberts put together a convoluted family melodrama that struggles to hold the audience's attention for the short 85 minute running time [..]

"The Core" is a science fiction disaster movie about scientists traveling to the earth's core hoping to restart the planet's rotation, which they plan to do by setting off nuclear weapons. This unlikely scenario in real life makes an acceptable premise for a low-expectations modern-day "B" movie, which [..]

"Jane Eyre" is a drama film about an orphan girl raised in an unloving home headed by her cruel aunt. In adulthood, she takes on a governess job in a wealthy home, and falls in love with the lord of the manor. [..]