The King’s Speech: Royal Pains

Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Photo: The Weinstein Company After watching this brilliant drama, I knew I had to consult YouTube for the speech King George VI made after Britain's…

The Dresser: Theatre of War

Tom Courtenay and Albert Finney. Photo: Columbia I went to see the musical “Sugar” last week. I should go to shows like that more often. Apart from enjoying it, I…

Max Manus: Man of War 

Shortly after the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Max Manus (Aksel Hennie) and his friends join the organized resistance and become a thorn in the side of the Nazis.…

The Artist: A Silent Treatment

Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Photo: Warner Michel Hazanavicius is obviously a man who loves the cinema. French audiences know his OSS 117 films, spoofs of the spy genre, and…

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Two salvage parties, one led by Mike Turner (Michael Caine), the other by Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas), arrive at the site of the now flipped-over luxury liner Poseidon. The sequel…

Up: House Ahoy

Photo: Pixar I saw this movie on DVD just a few days ago, in 2D, and never thought of the fact that it was originally released in theaters with 3D…

A Life Less Ordinary 

Robert Lewis (Ewan McGregor) loses his job as a janitor and kidnaps the boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz); two fallen angels (Holly Hunter, Delroy Lindo) try to make them fall in…

National Treasure: Book of Secrets 

When one of Ben Gates's (Nicolas Cage) ancestors is revealed to have been part of the Abraham Lincoln assassination plot, the historian/adventurer and his friends try to clear his name.…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

The treacherous Snape (Alan Rickman) is now running Hogwarts while Harry, Ron and Hermione (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) try to find and destroy the Horcruxes, objects that control…

The Final Destination 

While watching a car race, Nick O'Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition of a deadly disaster and convinces his buddies to leave immediately; however, death can't be cheated. One was…