Reagan
Ironically enough, a biography about President Reagan made by people who tend to support Trump, whose style, experience, wit and policies often stand in stark contrast. The primary argument of…
Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York
Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…
Coming Home: How to Have an Orgasm
Jon Voight and Jane Fonda. Photo: United Artists One of the most important moments in this critically lauded but perhaps slightly forgotten film is a sex scene. Jane Fonda, who…
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
In 1920s New York City, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives from Britain carrying a peculiar suitcase that turns out to be bursting with magical creatures… In her screenwriting debut, J.K.…
Heat: Cops and Robbers
Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer. Photo: Warner I remember watching this movie in a theater back in 1995. After about two hours, a woman asked someone sitting close to…
Transformers
Two warring, intergalactic clans of robots have infiltrated Earth; one of them is here to take over it, the other one is here to save the humans. Director Michael Bay’s…
The Odessa File
In 1963, German reporter Peter Miller (Jon Voight) becomes involved in the search for a brutal concentration camp commander, Roschmann (Maximilian Schell), who disappeared after World War II with help…
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
When one of Ben Gates's (Nicolas Cage) ancestors is revealed to have been part of the Abraham Lincoln assassination plot, the historian/adventurer and his friends try to clear his name.…
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii, 1941; the attack on Pearl Harbor is coming, and two fighter pilots (Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett) are at odds over an attractive nurse (Kate Beckinsale). This was meant to…
Mission Impossible: Unmasking a Traitor
Tom Cruise. Photo: Paramount Eleven years ago, I stepped out of a theater together with my buddies after watching Mission: Impossible and was as enthusiastic as any twenty-year-old can be…