Driving Miss Daisy: The Burden of an Oscar

Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy. Photo: Warner When people list the movies they feel did not deserve to win a Best Picture Oscar, this one often comes up. I agree.…

A Good Day to Die Hard 

When John McClane (Bruce Willis) learns that his son Jack (Jai Courtney) is facing prison in Russia, he goes to Moscow where he instantly lands smack in the middle of…

Force 10 From Navarone 

After the mission that destroyed the guns of Navarone, Keith Mallory and John Miller (Robert Shaw, Edward Fox) are asked to find a spy who may have infiltrated the Yugoslav…

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A huge storm is headed straight toward a Louisiana bayou community… and a five-year-old and her sick dad (Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry). Director Benh Zeitlin's first feature film became a…

Amour: In Sickness and in Health

Photo: Les Films du Losange Welcome to the ever-fascinating journey of the cinema of Michael Haneke. When I started writing this review I began by comparing the film with others…

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario) finds out that not only did she have a grandmother she never heard of, but now she's also inherited her estate in Texas; however, the house…

Airplane: Felled by Fish

Leslie Nielsen and Robert Hays. Photo: Paramount "Our survival hinges on one thing – finding someone who not only can fly this plane, but didn't have fish for dinner." A…

It’s a Wonderful Life: Wing and a Prayer

James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Jimmy Hawkins, Larry Simms and Karolyn Grimes. Photo: RKO This Christmas I decided to catch Frank Capra's last masterpiece again. Having seen it several…

Argo: The Great Escape

Photo: Warner In my reviews of Persepolis (2007) and A Separation (2011), I wrote that those films offer a well-needed opportunity to understand Iran. Argo, however, is not that type…

Resident Evil: Afterlife 

After meeting Claire (Ali Larter), who suffers from amnesia, in Alaska, Alice (Milla Jovovich) takes her on a small plane and flies to Los Angeles where they meet a group…