"Devotion" is the real-life story of two Navy pilots during the Korean War. Director J. D. Dillard ("Sweetheart" 2019) put together an dramatic film that balanced the friendship between Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner and great airplane action scenes. The excellent screenplay was written by Jake [..]

"Star Trek Nemesis" is the tenth in the film series that began with "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979, and the fourth featuring "The Next Generation" cast. The story has Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) discovering he has a clone after the Enterprise travels to the [..]

"Armageddon Time" tells the story of a young Jewish-American boy and his childhood experiences growing up in 1980's New York City. This well-written and superbly directed coming-of-age drama was drawn from the personal experiences of director-screenwriter James Gray ("Ad Astra" 2019). The overall tone of the [..]

Director-screenwriter Charlie Day has put together a real dud in his first job at the helm of a feature motion picture in "Fool's Paradise." It is billed as a satirical comedy film that tells the story of a movie producer who replaces a difficult star of his [..]

Many agree that one of the best movies ever made in the silent film era was "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ." It was a big hit at the box office and help establish Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a major studio, after being formed in 1924 by merging [..]

The Best Picture of 2002 is....."Chicago," one of the weakest films ever to win the Academy's top award of the year. This trite and one-dimensional storyline was from a mediocre screenplay by Bill Condon with uneven directing by Rob Marshall in his big screen debut. The [..]

"Tuck Everlasting" lives up to its name - it seems to go on forever. Director Jay Russell ("My Dog Skip" 2000) and screenwriters Jeffrey Lieber and James V. Hart seemed to have good intentions but fell short with poor execution of the story. It was adapted [..]

Executive producer John Carpenter continues his low-brow style of filmmaking with "Halloween Ends." This thirteenth film in the series that began in 1978 with "Halloween" supposedly concludes the saga of serial killer Michael Myers, who has been on killing sprees for these many 13 episodes. "Halloween [..]

"Mail Order Bride" is a poor attempt at movie-making, telling the story of a New York City mob boss whose nephew is scammed by a Russian organization to pay for a mail order bride that never arrives. The nephew travels to Moscow to get to the bottom [..]

Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear are literally paired together in "Stuck on You." The two play conjoined twins in this funny and engaging comedy from the Farrelly Brothers (Peter and Bobby), who produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay. The nearly two hour [..]