The Stepford Wives

Cynical TV producer Joanna Eberhardt (Nicole Kidman) moves away from New York with husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) and settles down in a small town where every woman seems to come…

Guns of Navarone: Mission Impossible

Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle and Gregory Peck. Photo: Columbia I loved this movie when I was a kid. I had good taste. Some of the cherished childhood memories one chooses…

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…