Jaws 3-D 

When a great white swims into Sea World in Florida, the oldest Brody son, Mike (Dennis Quaid), must confront his old fears. All of a sudden the Brody boys are…

Sex and the City 

Four years after the TV series was canceled, the cast got back together for the much-hyped movie to tie up a few loose ends. Carrie and Big decide to get…

Love and Death 

Napoleon is about to invade Russia; a coward (Woody Allen) is forced to join the army, and is eventually caught up in a plot to kill the French leader. A…

Jaws 2

Chief of Police Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) begins to suspect that another great white is killing people in the waters off Amity Island, but the mayor refuses to listen to…

The Devil Wears Prada 

Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), a journalism graduate, gets a job as an assistant to the demanding editor of a New York fashion magazine; she doesn’t know the first thing about…

Speed 2: Cruise Control 

Annie (Sandra Bullock) and her new boyfriend (Jason Patric) go on a Caribbean cruise with a luxury liner, but the ship is taken over by John Geiger (Willem Dafoe) who…

The Stepford Wives: Accept No Substitute

Katharine Ross. Photo: Columbia Screenwriter William Goldman was less than happy about director Bryan Forbes’s lack of integrity. The filmmaker had cast his wife, Nanette Newman, as one of the…

Ratatouille: The Little Chef That Could

Photo: Pixar When creating the concept for Ratatouille, director Brad Bird got help from Thomas Keller, a distinguished chef. He advised the director on what goes on in the busy…

First Blood

John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), a Vietnam veteran, arrives in a small town and is subsequently harassed by the police and hunted into the forest where he exacts revenge. Having made…

Brief Encounter: Politely Passionate

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Photo: Eagle-Lion The legendary film critic Pauline Kael didn’t seem to care much for this film. Acknowledging it as a “celebrated tearjerker”, she also called…