Silence of the Lambs: Quid Pro Quo
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Photo: Orion Rumor has it that author Thomas Harris has never seen the film adaptation of his novel “The Silence of the Lambs”. If it’s…
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…
Lives of Others: Fly on the Wall
Martina Gedeck and Sebastian Koch. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics It’s a day like many others. A group of Stasi agents have discreetly broken into an apartment and bugged it. It…
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…
United 93: On a Penknife’s Edge
Photo: Universal On the same day that I first saw this movie, it was reported that British police had exposed a major plot to blow up several commercial airliners over…
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…
Lost Horizon: Journey to Eden
Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt. Photo: Columbia A short while after the premiere of Lost Horizon in 1937, Columbia Pictures realized that spending over two and a half million dollars…
The Untouchables: A Few Good Men
Photo: Paramount In 1987, Brian De Palma was not looking good at all. After Body Double (1984) and Wise Guys (1986), two films you might call failures, the director seemed…