Romancing the Stone
New York City romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) goes to Colombia to help her sister who's been kidnapped, and gets unexpected aid from a bird smuggler (Michael Douglas). After…
Forrest Gump: The Curious Case of an Alabama Simpleton
Tom Hanks. Photo: Paramount When I saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button a few months ago, I never thought about Forrest Gump, but many others did. One of them even produced a trailer…
Cast Away: Me, Myself & Wilson
Tom Hanks. Photo: 20th Century Fox We’ve all watched too many episodes of Survivor to have a realistic idea of what it would be like to be stranded on a…
The Polar Express
Late on Christmas Eve, a boy who doesn’t believe in Santa anymore wakes up to see the Polar Express just outside his house; it’s headed for Santa’s home. The first…
Back to the Future Part III
Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) is stuck in 1885 and will be murdered, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) learns, unless he can travel back in time from 1955 and warn the…
Back to the Future Part II
Immediately upon returning from 1955, Marty and Doc Brown (Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd) go to 2015 in order to stop disastrous events from ruining the future for Marty’s family.…
What Lies Beneath
Claire Spencer (Michelle Pfeiffer) discovers that she and hubby Norman (Harrison Ford) live in a haunted house; learning the identity of the spirit puts both her marriage and life at…
Back to the Future: Party Like It’s 1955
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Photo: Universal Robert Zemeckis’s highly entertaining Romancing the Stone (1984) obviously borrowed a lot from Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), even if its hero…