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…

The Departed: Keeping Your Enemies Closer

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson. Photo: Warner When I went to see this movie with a friend the other night, his expectations were not too high. Martin Scorsese had, in…

Aliens: Mother Against Mother

Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox When I first heard about this film, I was 11 or 12 years old and pretty much a novice when it came to movies.…

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…

Finding Nemo: Beyond the Sea

Photo: Pixar Perhaps the best film of 2003 was animated and primarily targeted at kids. That's a reason for some people to think less of it, but it is a…

The Untouchables: A Few Good Men

Andy García, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner and Charles Martin Smith. Photo: Paramount In 1987, Brian De Palma was not looking good at all. After Body Double (1984) and Wise Guys…

Alien: The Deadly Stowaway

Sigourney Weaver. Photo: 20th Century Fox The most famous sequence of this horrifying classic takes place about thirty minutes into the story. Everyone is relaxing after a somewhat gut-wrenching experience.…