Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
The first chapter in Kevin Costner’s Western epic, depicting pioneer days in 1860s Arizona; we follow a sprawling cast of characters around Horizon, a new frontier town. Traditional and modern…
Bull Durham
Veteran catcher ”Crash” Davies (Kevin Costner) arrives in Durham, North Carolina to teach a pitcher (Tim Robbins), who’s young but very promising, how to play better. Before embarking on a…
Dances With Wolves: Finding Your Tribe
Kevin Costner. Photo: Orion Pictures If Dances With Wolves had been released today, poisonous social media activism and cable news outlets would have made it part of the culture war,…
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Billionaire Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck), who hunts criminals as the masked vigilante Batman in Gotham City, is furious to see Superman (Henry Cavill) partly responsible for so many deaths in…
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Young Afghanistan War veteran Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) is recruited by the CIA to work covertly in a Wall Street company, but suddenly the analyst is turned into an operative…
Man of Steel
I guess everyone who complained about Superman Returns (2006) can shut up now, because this is what the nerd rage led to – a reboot of the franchise in the…
JFK: Watch Responsibly
Photo: Warner Some time after the premiere of Oliver Stone’s JFK, Roger Ebert ran into Walter Cronkite and received a “tongue-lashing” for having praised the film. In Cronkite’s view, it was full…
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…