Goldfinger: Knocking Out Fort Knox

Sean Connery. Photo: United Artists In 1964, audiences began to get used to the idea of agent 007 showing up once a year. This third film, the best of ‘em…

Freaky Friday 

Tess Coleman and her daughter Anna (Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan) find it impossible to communicate with each other; when a spell in a fortune cookie makes them switch bodies,…

Seed of Chucky 

Another movie starring the evil dolls Chucky and Tiffany is being made in Hollywood, but soon the toys, who are quite alive, wreak havoc on the production and its star,…

The Pink Panther

The coach of the French national soccer team is murdered and his huge, famous Pink Panther diamond ring is stolen; it’s up to Inspector Clouseau (Steve Martin) to find the…

World Trade Center

Conservatives seemed genuinely surprised to see Oliver Stone make such a patriotic and moving film about 9/11. They must have taken him for a simple political pundit when in fact…

Scary Movie 4 

Cindy (Anna Faris) moves into a haunted house and familiarizes herself with the neighbor (Craig Bierko)... but then aliens attack Earth. Director David Zucker’s second stab at this franchise mainly…

The Naked Gun: Nursing a Legacy

O.J. Simpson, Leslie Nielsen and George Kennedy. Photo: Paramount It opens with a meeting where the most anti-American leaders of the world have congregated to discuss a major plot to…

Ice Station Zebra 

An American nuclear sub heads for the North Pole on a rescue mission; on board is a British agent (Patrick McGoohan) who won’t tell anyone what he’s up to... as…

Man on the Roof: The Enemy Within

Sven Wollter and Thomas Hellberg. Photo: SF By 1976, American audiences had already familiarized themselves with Martin Beck. He was the Swedish police detective who starred in a series of…

Miami Vice 

Miami police detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs (Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx) go undercover for the federal authorities in order to expose a very sophisticated drug ring. Sounds familiar, huh?…