Caché: In Denial

Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. Photo: Les Films du Losange When I started watching Caché, I was wary. I knew that director Michael Haneke had no qualms about torturing his…

Jaws the Revenge 

After losing her youngest son to a shark, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) goes to the Bahamas to get away from Amity, but the shark follows her. I don’t know if…

Scarface

Tony Montana (Al Pacino) claims asylum in Miami and instantly makes an impact on a wealthy cocaine dealer (Robert Loggia) who offers him work. Oliver Stone did an interesting thing.…

Jaws 3-D 

When a great white swims into Sea World in Florida, the oldest Brody son, Mike (Dennis Quaid), must confront his old fears. All of a sudden the Brody boys are…

Sex and the City 

Four years after the TV series was canceled, the cast got back together for the much-hyped movie to tie up a few loose ends. Carrie and Big decide to get…

Jaws 2

Chief of Police Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) begins to suspect that another great white is killing people in the waters off Amity Island, but the mayor refuses to listen to…

Speed 2: Cruise Control 

Annie (Sandra Bullock) and her new boyfriend (Jason Patric) go on a Caribbean cruise with a luxury liner, but the ship is taken over by John Geiger (Willem Dafoe) who…

The Stepford Wives: Accept No Substitute

Katharine Ross. Photo: Columbia Screenwriter William Goldman was less than happy about director Bryan Forbes’s lack of integrity. The filmmaker had cast his wife, Nanette Newman, as one of the…

Ratatouille: The Little Chef That Could

Photo: Pixar When creating the concept for Ratatouille, director Brad Bird got help from Thomas Keller, a distinguished chef. He advised the director on what goes on in the busy…

First Blood

John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), a Vietnam veteran, arrives in a small town and is subsequently harassed by the police and hunted into the forest where he exacts revenge. Having made…