Home Alone: Christmas with a Kick

Macaulay Culkin. Photo: 20th Century Fox I love everything about Christmas. Most people would pick It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) as their favorite Yuletide-themed film, and it certainly is a…

Final Destination 

High school student Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a nightmare where he and his classmates die in a plane crash; the dream is so vivid he skips an upcoming flight...…

Vegas Vacation 

The Griswolds go to Las Vegas on vacation, but Clark and Ellen's (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo) marriage hits a few bumps and cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) shows up to cause…

Terms of Endearment: Fighting Back the Tears

Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Paramount It never fails. I’ve seen this film, director-producer James L. Brooks’ first, four or five times and it always leaves me…

GoldenEye 

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) must stop his former colleague and friend (Sean Bean) from getting his greedy hands on a dangerous satellite system. The 17th entry in this series came…

Licence to Kill 

Drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) maims a CIA agent and kills his wife; as they were friends of James Bond’s (Timothy Dalton), he begins a personal vendetta against the…

The Living Daylights 

James Bond (Timothy Dalton) helps a KGB general (Jeroen Krabbé) defect; there's valuable information to be had, but Bond isn't sure just how reliable the man is. Bond flick nr.…

Casino Royale: Bond Begins

Daniel Craig. Photo: Sony Pictures Releasing The departure of Pierce Brosnan and the introduction of Daniel Craig made it possible to begin anew. This film was based on Ian Fleming’s…

A View to a Kill

James Bond (Roger Moore) realizes that an American industrialist (Christopher Walken) plans to destroy Silicon Valley in order to gain control of the world’s microchip market. Bond flick nr. 14…

Never Say Never Again 

When SPECTRE steals two nukes as part of an extortion scheme against the world, James Bond (Sean Connery) cuts his vacation short.  This film is not part of the official Bond series…