Downhill Racer
When a young downhill skier (Robert Redford) arrives in Switzerland to join the U.S. team, his unorthodox attitude rubs the coach (Gene Hackman) the wrong way. The director’s film debut…
Ordinary People: Absent Mother
Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. Photo: Paramount Judith Guest gave up her teaching job to focus on writing her first novel, the one that would become ”Ordinary People”, trying…
Avengers: Endgame
Five years after the events of Infinity War, the remaining Avengers realize that there can be a way of traveling back in time to stop Thanos (Josh Brolin). The fourth…
Out of Africa
In the 1910s, Karen (Meryl Streep) marries a Danish nobleman (Klaus Maria Brandauer) and they move to British East Africa to start a farm; she also befriends a handsome big-game…
The Sting: Good-Hearted Grifters
Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Photo: Universal One of David S. Ward's first scripts introduced us to the world of confidence men. Not that they hadn't been seen on screen…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America and Black Widow (Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson) are sent on a mission to liberate S.H.I.E.L.D. hostages, but soon find the entire organization threatened from all sides. The filmmakers'…
All the President’s Men: Exposing a CREEP
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. Photo: Warner When I was in journalism school, I took a course in investigative journalism. That particular genre is still the finest you can do…