Why Did I Get Married Too?

The four couples from Why Did I Get Married? (2007) get back together for a vacation in the Bahamas; well, two of the characters are now divorced, but writer-director Tyler…

Il Capitano: Drifting

Antti Reini and Maria Heiskanen. Photo: Sandrews On July 3rd 1988, a married couple and their 15-year-old son were murdered in a small community called Åmsele in northern Sweden. Father…

The Raid

A 20-man elite squad arrive at an apartment block in Jakarta, determined to kill a crime lord who has made it his headquarters, but never expected a battle floor by…

Rio Bravo: A Sheriff Takes a Chance

John Wayne. Photo: Warner For purely political reasons, John Wayne was not a fan of High Noon (1952). In his view, that film celebrated collectivism, having Gary Cooper's sheriff come…

RoboCop 

In 2028, a corporation that specializes in robot technology finds the perfect candidate for their new part-man/part-machine product in a cop (Joel Kinnaman) who was almost killed by a bomb.…

Saving Mr. Banks

In the early 1960s, P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson), the author of "Mary Poppins", finally gives in to Walt Disney's (Tom Hanks) relentless requests to make a movie out of…

12 Years a Slave: Land of the Unfree

Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Photo: Fox Searchlight The historian Sue Eakin was born in Louisiana five decades after the end of the Civil War and she specialized in the…

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 

Young Afghanistan War veteran Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is recruited by the CIA to work covertly in a Wall Street company, but suddenly the analyst is turned into an operative…

Madea’s Witness Protection 

After finding out that the company where he's CFO is actually a Ponzi scheme, George Needleman (Eugene Levy) and his family enter a witness protection program… and move in with…

Wuthering Heights: Love in the Moors

Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Photo: United Artists During the making of this classic, there was tension on set. Two of the stars, Merle Oberon and David Niven, had been…