Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Marketed as the third and last film in the franchise, dedicated to the memory of Maggie Smith, the story is set in the early 1930s and there’s a change of…
The Holdovers: Among Family
Dominic Sessa and Paul Giamatti. Photo: Focus Features That Alexander Payne is a child of the 1970s is not something to be taken lightly. As The Holdovers begins, a film…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
While Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) worries over Gwen's (Emma Stone) safety now that she knows his secret alias, Spider-Man faces two new enemies. Marc Webb's attempt to make the greatest…
Saving Mr. Banks
In the early 1960s, P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson), the author of "Mary Poppins", finally gives in to Walt Disney's (Tom Hanks) relentless requests to make a movie out of…
12 Years a Slave: Land of the Unfree
Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures The historian Sue Eakin was born in Louisiana five decades after the end of the Civil War and she specialized in…
The Hangover Part II
It is Stu Price's (Ed Helms) turn to get married and the gang goes to "Thighland"... where a night on the beach leads to another devastating hangover. It remains a…
Saving Private Ryan: Spielberg in Combat
Tom Sizemore and Tom Hanks. Photo: DreamWorks Steven Spielberg directed several masterpieces over the years, but this one might be the most controversial. The general sentiment expressed by snobs is…
John Adams: The Reluctant VP
Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti. Photo: HBO Sometimes there are discrepancies between filmmakers and the people hired to market their work. The tagline of this ambitious HBO miniseries has nothing…
My Best Friend’s Wedding
When Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) finds out that her best friend, Michael O'Neil (Dermot Mulroney), is getting married, she realizes that she actually loves him and does everything to stop…
Planet of the Apes
After crash landing on a planet, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) encounters a militant community of talking apes and is forced to fight it. Nothing has been spared regarding visual…