Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
On a quest to find the fountain of youth, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) contends with an old enemy (Geoffrey Rush), an old lover (Penélope Cruz)... and the fearsome Blackbeard…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
The treacherous Snape (Alan Rickman) is now running Hogwarts while Harry, Ron and Hermione (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) try to find and destroy the Horcruxes, objects that control…
Gandhi: The Smiling Revolution
Ben Kingsley. Photo: Columbia Richard Attenborough knows his epics and I bet he's watched Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more than once. In similar fashion, this film opens with Mahatma Gandhi's…
Chariots of Fire: For God and Honor
Photo: Allied Stars I have taken up running recently and discovered that it is easy to get hooked. It’s tough in the beginning but some days it is as if…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
As the new leadership of Hogwarts turns increasingly fascist, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is angry to learn that few people are willing to believe that he did meet Voldemort. Many…
The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) stumbles over a conspiracy hatched by powerful representatives of the oil, nuclear and coal industries. This sequel is quite similar to the 1988 original; Priscilla Presley’s…
Harry Potter: The Education of a Wizard
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. Photo: Warner Some genius must have decided that American readers would be too stupid to understand J.K. Rowling’s original title for her hugely…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
As Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) begins his third year at Hogwarts, authorities are looking for a convict who could be hiding somewhere near the school. The third entry in the…
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Summer holidays are over and it’s time to go back to Hogwarts where the apprentice wizards find out that the Chamber of Secrets threatens to destroy the school. This dark…