"Big Wednesday" is a coming-of-age sports drama about three friends whose passion for surfing seems to surpass everything else in life. Director John Milius ("The Wind and the Lion" 1975) had focused direction in putting together this two-hour movie. He co-wrote the screenplay with Dennis Aaberg, [..]

Director Steven Spielberg made his theatrical film debut with the crime drama "The Sugarland Express." It tells the story of a woman and her newly escaped-from-prison husband who take a policeman hostage and flee across Texas to try and get their child before he is placed in [..]

The Best Picture of 1997 is....."Titanic." The story centers on an ill-fated romance set in one of the worst maritime disasters in modern history. It was the biggest box office draw of the 1990's, and won eleven Academy Awards. "Titanic" begins in [..]

Producer-director Jean-Jacques Annaud has created an intimate look at the friendship between an Austrian mountain climber and the teenage 14th Dalai Lama during World War II. The film has excellent chemistry between Brad Pitt and Bhutanese actor Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuc. They bring to life the screenplay [..]

A futuristic crime drama and a look at the ethics of human genetic engineering both describe the excellent science fiction movie "Gattaca." Andrew Niccol wrote and directed this film with little waste in the storyline and plot; it was a fast-moving 106 minutes. [..]

Big name stars, an exciting action story, and expert direction by Michael Caton-Jones ("Rob Roy" 1995) are all atributes of "The Jackal." This complex, yet easy to follow, tale of an international search for an elusive assassin is a credit to the well written screenplay by [..]

"The Full Monty" is British comedy at its worst. The putrid screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and extremely sloppy directing by Peter Cattaneo make this movie dull and unappealing. It is the story of six unemployed Englishmen in Sheffield who decide to form a male striptease act [..]

Eon Productions produced the eighteenth James Bond movie - "Tomorrow Never Dies" - and it is as good if not better than most of its venerable 007 predecessors. Director Roger Spottiswoode ("Air America" 1990) and screenwriter Bruce Feirstein have given the old franchise a fresh look [..]

"Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters" is an interesting look at the brother & sister musical group popular in the late 1960's through the early 1980's. The documentary's director, Ron Tosches, covers their move from New Haven, Connecticut, to Downey, California, in 1963; the Richard Carpenter Trio's [..]

"Leave It to Beaver" is an entertaining revisit to the popular television series that ran from 1957-1963. Director Andy Cadiff and screenwriters Brain Levant and Lon Diamond pay due respect to the original, including many inside jokes and three cast members from the first "Beaver." They [..]