"Johnny English" offers some typically dry British humor in this spoof of spy pictures in general and of the James Bond series in particular. Star Rowan Atkinson is expert in the title role, the bumbling and stumbling Johnny English. Despite his mistakes, the writers always make [..]

Producer-director Errol Morris has created a fascinating look at the life and times of Robert S. McNamara in "The Fog of War." Morris won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for this skillfully crafted work, which features live interviews with the man who was John F. [..]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back for more fun and games in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." Though not as original as its two predecessors (1984 & 1991), this one nonetheless contains enough action sequences, an exciting chase scene, and copious battles between Arnold's T-800 and the new [..]

"Land of Plenty" tells the story of a woman returning to America after years living abroad. She searches out her only living relative, her mother's brother, with interesting results. Director Wim Wenders ("The Million Dollar Hotel" 2000), who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Meredith, [..]

"Paradise" must be one of the worst films of 2004. This made-for-television movie tells the story of an astronaut who claims to have seen God while on one of his space missions, and later becomes a televangelist who builds an empire on this story. The government [..]

"Snowpiercer" is a science fiction story about a future in which climate change has turned the entire Earth into a new ice age. The remnants of the human race are all crowded on one giant train called the Snowpiercer, which is continually circling the globe on the [..]

Set in 1930 on the island of Martinique, "Sugar Cane Alley" tells the story of an elderly woman raising her grandson in the post-slavery, yet still plantation-based, sugar cane industry. She struggles to get him an education to escape the drudgery and poverty of physical labor. [..]

"Daddy Day Care" is a family comedy starring Eddie Murphy as a man who is laid off from his corporate job and starts a child day care in his home. Director Steve Carr ("Dr. Dolittle 2" 2001) and screenwriter Geoff Rodkey have created a watchable stock comedy [..]

The Best Picture of 2003 is....."The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." This third and final installment of "The Lord of the Rings" series is certainly spectacular and did not disappoint the legions of fans of the books and motion pictures. It features [..]

Hollywood at its worst is exemplified in the romantic-comedy crime-drama "Gigli." Producer-director-screenwriter Martin Brest ("Scent of a Woman" 1992) presided over a film that has terrible writing, bad acting, virtually no production values, and lousy chemistry between the two stars, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. [..]