My Best Friend’s Wedding 

When Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) finds out that her best friend, Michael O'Neil (Dermot Mulroney), is getting married, she realizes that she actually loves him and does everything to stop…

Black Panther: Royal Rumble

Chadwick Boseman. Photo: Marvel At the premiere of this entry in the Marvel franchise, the praise was universal and looked a little bit like how Get Out (2017) was received.…

Closer: Bodies in Motion

Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Jude Law. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing Mike Nichols was lauded for turning Tony Kushner’s play “Angels in America” into a great miniseries in…

No Country for Old Men: Blood in the Sand

Javier Bardem. Photo: Miramax When I started reading Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, it took a while before I was hooked, until the author’s way of conjuring a desolate, bleak future…

Amadeus: The Burden of Mediocrity

Tom Hulce. Photo: Orion Pictures Most of us recognize Antonio Salieri’s feelings. He has worked hard to achieve something, got a good education and managed to become court composer to…

Final Destination 3 

As Wendy Christensen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and friends are about to take a roller coaster ride, she has a premonition of a major accident and they decide not to take…

Final Destination 2 

After having a vision where she dies in a violent highway pileup, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) and a few others narrowly escape death... but then the strange accidents begin. The…

Dr. Strangelove: Bombs Away!

Peter Sellers. Photo: Columbia When Stanley Kubrick decided to turn Peter George’s Cold War novel “Red Alert” into a movie, he must have thought the material was too outrageous to…

Falkenberg Farewell: Avoiding Adulthood

Photo: Memfis Film When this film premiered, I realized that I was probably not the only one in the audience who kept thinking back to the period in life depicted…