"Mean Streets" could also be called "Boring Streets." The screenplay by Mardik Martin and Martin Scorsese drearily depicts the low life activities of young Italian-Americans in New York's Little Italy. Robert De Niro plays a small time hood who gets in over his head in debt to a [..]

"The Way We Were" is the story of a couple whose opposite backgrounds and political beliefs get in the way of their relationship. This love story, set from the 1930's to the 1950's, was skillfully crafted by director Sydney Pollack ("Jeremiah Johnson" 1972) from the screenplay by [..]

Steve McQueen provides film buffs with the best performance of his career in "Papillon." He was literally absorbed into this role about a Frenchman wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at the infamous prison Devil's Island in French Guiana in South America. McQueen won a [..]

"Live and Let Die" is the first James Bond film to feature Roger Moore in the title role. The movie produced mixed results, with the good new being Moore put his own stamp on 007 with his sarcastic wit, numerous puns, and more of an English [..]

"Soylent Green" is a science fiction story set in the year 2022 when the earth is over-populated and people are underfed. Most of the world's population survives on rations produced by the Soylent Corporation. One of the board members is murdered, and a police detective played [..]

"Day for Night" is a comedy-drama film about the goings-on in the lives of a cast and crew as they are shooting a motion picture. Director-screenwriter Francois Truffaut did an outstanding job of making a film within a film. It is often stated that some of [..]

"Westworld" is a science fiction thriller about an interactive theme park populated by lifelike robots who malfunction and start killing guests. This engrossing and well paced film was tightly directed and written by Michael Crichton, a novelist involved in his first motion picture project. Not bad [..]

"Cahill United States Marshall" is one of John Wayne's last films, telling the story of driven lawman who neglects his two sons. Upon return from one of his many absences, he finds that they are involved with an outlaw and mixed up in a bank robbery. [..]

"Bang the Drum Slowly" is a baseball action film telling the story of a young catcher trying to finish the season after being diagnosed with a terminal illness and his friendship with one of the team's pitchers. Director John Hancock ("Let's Scare Jessica to Death" 1971) does an [..]

"Electra Glide in Blue" is a quirky police drama where Robert Blake plays an Arizona motorcycle cop who gets into troubles of all kinds. The 114-minute film actually seems longer because of Blake's obnoxious personality and bad direction by James William Guercio, who mainly produced albums for [..]