M: Terror in Berlin

Peter Lorre. Photo: Nero-Film AG After announcing that his next movie would be a story about a child murderer, acclaimed filmmaker Fritz Lang was informed that he wouldn’t get to…

Avengers: Infinity War 

Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) crash-lands on Earth in time to let the other Avengers know that he and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) have just faced the formidable villain Thanos (Josh Brolin) and…

Twins

On his 35th birthday, Julius Benedict (Arnold Schwarzenegger) learns that he has a twin brother somewhere in Los Angeles and leaves the South Pacific island where he was raised to…

The Bodyguard 

Former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) is hired to serve as bodyguard to a popular singer (Whitney Houston), who initially is more annoyed with his presence than anything…

Barry Lyndon: Life of a Doomed Man

Photo: Warner After A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick became interested in adapting a novel from the 1800s, William Makepeace Thackeray’s ”Vanity Fair”. When he found out that a TV…

The Final Year 

The director, who’s made several documentaries about America’s role in the world, got access to President Barack Obama and his foreign-policy team during the administration’s last year. We follow Obama…

The Bridges of Madison County 

When two Iowa siblings get involved with the settlement of their dead mother’s estate, they learn that in 1965 she had an affair with a photographer who was there to…

Mutiny on the Bounty: Battling Bligh

Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Photo: MGM 1935 was a great year in Hollywood, so perhaps there’s no wonder that Mutiny on the Bounty only ended up winning one of…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…