Casablanca: You Must Remember This

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: Warner Casablanca was just another movie meant to bolster the spirit of American audiences at a time when the nation had just entered an…

Tom Jones: A Bawdy Adventure

Susannah York and Albert Finney. Photo: United Artists The film that won director Tony Richardson an Oscar and launched the international career of Albert Finney had quite a challenging shoot.…

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 

In 1938, Indy (Harrison Ford) joins his father (Sean Connery) in the quest for the Holy Grail, but the Nazis turn out to be devious competitors. The third film is…

Pearl Harbor 

Hawaii, 1941; the attack on Pearl Harbor is coming, and two fighter pilots (Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett) are at odds over an attractive nurse (Kate Beckinsale). This was meant to…

Jurassic Park III 

Paul (William H. Macy) and Amanda Kirby (Téa Leoni) head for the dinosaur islands to find their son who went missing there while paragliding; the couple trick paleontologist Alan Grant…

Midnight Run

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro) finds a runaway Mafia accountant (Charles Grodin) in New York and is set to take him to Los Angeles; he will face competition…

Bullitt: Before There Was Michael Mann

Photo: Warner Peter Yates hasn’t made a memorable film in ages. But there was indeed a time when he directed a few not-too-shabby movies and Bullitt stands as his crowning achievement, along…

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer 

When her friend (Brandy) wins a trip to the Bahamas, Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) decides to tag along... but the man with the hook is not as dead as…

Gandhi: The Smiling Revolution

Ben Kingsley. Photo: Columbia Richard Attenborough knows his epics and I bet he's watched Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more than once. In similar fashion, this film opens with Mahatma Gandhi's…