Driving Miss Daisy: The Burden of an Oscar

Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy. Photo: Warner When people list the movies they feel did not deserve to win a Best Picture Oscar, this one often comes up. I agree.…

Dark Knight Rises: The Bat vs. Bane

Christian Bale. Photo: Warner On the night of this film's intensely anticipated premiere, a 24-year-old man attacked a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado and murdered 12 people. The horrendous act…

The Dark Knight: Say It With a Smile

Heath Ledger. Photo: Warner "Why so serioussss?", hisses the Joker as he flashes his retarded grin. This is after committing several murders, throwing Gotham City into disarray and before trying…

Batman Begins: A Very Dark Knight

Christian Bale. Photo: Warner As it turned out, the definitive adaptation of “Batman” was not made in 1989. The Tim Burton movie showed a Caped Crusader quite different from the…

War of the Worlds 

When tripods taller than buildings suddenly burst out from under the ground and start blasting everything and everyone to pieces, Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) grabs his kids and runs for…

Million Dollar Baby: No Guts, No Glory

Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank. Photo: Warner As an actor, Clint Eastwood is a genuine American icon. His career as a director on the other hand looked quite uneven in…

Unforgiven: A Case of Damaged Property

Clint Eastwood. Photo: Warner Let's go back to 1983 for a while. Who would have thought then that Clint Eastwood, the tough guy who had made a few pretty good…

The Sum of All Fears 

Roughly a year after the terrorist attacks that pulverized the Twin Towers came the first movie that dared show a similar event, with a story that had European neo-fascists plotting…