Spider-Man 2: Doc Ock Rocks

Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Photo: Columbia There are so many things to admire about the sequel to Spider-Man (2002), but I can’t help being fascinated by who wrote it.…

Spider-Man: Honing the Craft

Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing For many years, “Spider-Man” was a dream that many wanted to turn into reality. Several independent studios were interested in the…

Music Box 

When Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused of having committed war crimes in Hungary 40 years earlier, his daughter, attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange), decides to represent him. Another politically…

The Ring Two 

After the horrific events in Seattle, Rachel Keller and son (Naomi Watts, David Dorfman) move to a small town but they can’t escape Samara the ghost. The man who made…

Godzilla

As a result of French nuclear tests in the Pacific, a dinosaur mutates and turns into a huge killing machine that attacks New York. Well, turns out that size didn’t…

Schindler’s List: A Place of Protection

Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Photo: Universal In 1993, Schindler’s List was a seminal event, one of those things you simply had to experience. I was in school and every…

Dalecarlians

Mia (Sofia Helin) is driving home for her father’s 70th birthday, fearing the sense of isolation in the village where she grew up, and the aggressive bitterness of her sister…

Life as a House

When everything falls apart for architect George Monroe (Kevin Kline), he decides to spend his last months building the house of his dreams – together with his estranged son Sam…

Die Hard: Terror in a Highrise

Bruce Willis. Photo: 20th Century Fox Where would Bruce Willis be without this film? In 1988, he had spent several years charming viewers as a private eye on the hit…