How Green Was My Valley: The One That Beat Kane

Roddy MacDowall and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: 20th Century Fox Hollywood sure appreciated taking lessons from John Ford in all matters social realistic. He received an Academy Award for portraying the…

Great Expectations: Educating Pip

Valerie Hobson and John Mills. Photo: Universal After making one of the greatest romantic films of all time, Brief Encounter (1945), director David Lean moved on to what would become…

Captain America: The First Avenger 

In 1942, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a skinny kid who keeps getting rejected for military service, is finally recruited for a special project that will turn him into a supersoldier.…

Nosferatu: Dracula? What Dracula?

Max Schreck. Photo: Image Entertainment If you're looking to create a good tagline for this classic horror movie, it would have to be "Banned in Sweden for 50 years!". The…

The Wiz 

Dorothy (Diana Ross), a 24-year-old Harlem teacher who's never been south of 125th Street, ends up in a fierce winter storm that takes her to a magical land – where…

Night of the Living Dead: I Am Zombie

Photo: Continental Distributing It started as a comedy called "Monster Flick" that had teenage aliens visiting Earth. But John Russo and George Romero, newcomers to the film business, soon developed…

Bolt

A dog called Bolt has been raised (by filmmakers) to believe that he and Penny, the girl who owns him, are in constant conflict with a heinous villain and that…

The White Ribbon: Reap What You Sow

Photo: Wega Film I have a conflicted relationship with director Michael Haneke. The first film I saw was Funny Games (1997), which I found somewhat pointless. The second one was…

Saw III 

Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) kidnaps a doctor (Bahar Soomekh) and tells her that she must help her save the life of her mentor, Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), who's dying of cancer.…

Beauty and the Beast: Ready for Broadway

Photo: Disney One of Disney's most popular films is dedicated to the memory of Howard Ashman. The lyricist died of AIDS the same year as Beauty and the Beast was…