Barry Lyndon: Life of a Doomed Man

Photo: Warner After A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick became interested in adapting a novel from the 1800s, William Makepeace Thackeray’s ”Vanity Fair”. When he found out that a TV…

The Final Year 

The director, who’s made several documentaries about America’s role in the world, got access to President Barack Obama and his foreign-policy team during the administration’s last year. We follow Obama…

The Bridges of Madison County 

When two Iowa siblings get involved with the settlement of their dead mother’s estate, they learn that in 1965 she had an affair with a photographer who was there to…

Mutiny on the Bounty: Battling Bligh

Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Photo: MGM 1935 was a great year in Hollywood, so perhaps there’s no wonder that Mutiny on the Bounty only ended up winning one of…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…

Den of Thieves 

An armored-truck robbery that ends in several deaths attracts the attention of Los Angeles cop Nick O’Brien (Gerard Butler) who has unconventional ways of hunting down violent criminals. After making…

The Cloverfield Paradox 

In the future, astronauts are working on new energy solutions for Earth aboard a space station, but a sudden power surge hurls them into danger. The third Cloverfield movie connects…

Annabelle: Creation 

In 1955, Sister Charlotte (Stephanie Sigman) and six homeless girls arrive at a shelter in the countryside; the house belongs to a doll-maker (Anthony LaPaglia) and his wife who are…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…