The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 

One of the most influential horror movies ever made was inspired by the story of notorious serial killer Ed Gein. In spite of a short running time, the story may…

The Lego Movie 

In the city of Bricksburg, happy-go-lucky construction worker Emmet Brickowoski meets a woman who believes that he is “the Special”, a person who is ultimately capable of stopping a superweapon.…

Imitation Game: Another Beautiful Mind

Benedict Cumberbatch. Photo: The Weinstein Company The title refers to a paper that the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1950 where he introduced his now-famous test of a machine’s…

The Passion of the Christ 

One can’t help but admire how Mel Gibson made this ridiculed project into the most talked about movie of the year, and a box office hit to boot. The religious…

Braveheart: Creating a New Wallace

Mel Gibson. Photo: Paramount As the story goes, American writer Randall Wallace made a trip to Scotland and came upon a statue at the entrance of Edinburgh Castle. Since the…

Monsters University

This prequel to Monsters, Inc (2001) takes us back to school; the story has our two monstrous heroes meeting for the first time as students attending Monsters University. They take…

The Expendables 3 

When the CIA learns that one of the original Expendables (Mel Gibson), who went rogue and was presumed dead, has resurfaced, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) assembles a new team to…

White Christmas

When two entertainers and WWII veterans (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye) help a couple of charming sisters (Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen) out of a pickle, they all end up at a rural…

Penguins of Madagascar 

The four penguins from the Madagascar movies break into Fort Knox and face an enemy from the past whose name they can’t for the life of them remember. The wonderfully…

A Christmas Story

In the 1940s, nine-year-old Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) desperately wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, but every adult in his life tells him “you’ll shoot your eye out”.…