Deep Cover
Three improv comedians (Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed) are hired by a cop (Sean Bean) to go undercover in a local London shop… but it quickly spirals out…
How a Film Nerd Should Spend a Few Days in Los Angeles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Umol88dGrs I recently came back from a two-week visit to Los Angeles, a city I had never been to before. As a life-long cinephile, it is a place I have…
Ronin
A group of international pros, including American Sam (Robert De Niro), gather in Paris for a mission where they must obtain a case whose contents are unknown. The last really…
The Martian: Left Behind
Matt Damon. Photo: 20th Century Fox If you’ve ever been to Wadi Rum in Jordan, you’ve been to Mars. The valley has been Hollywood’s favorite location for movies set on…
GoldenEye
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) must stop his former colleague and friend (Sean Bean) from getting his greedy hands on a dangerous satellite system. The 17th entry in this series came…
Return of the King: At Journey’s End
Elijah Wood. Photo: New Line Cinema We've reached journey’s end. Peter Jackson’s final chapter of his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy won almost everything at the 2004 Academy Awards and…
The Two Towers: Pillars of Evil
Elijah Wood and Sean Astin. Photo: New Line Cinema So, here’s the middle child of Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. A middle child is likely to feel like…
Fellowship of the Ring: The Beginning
Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd and Sean Astin. Photo: New Line Cinema Once upon a time, there was a maker of films called Peter Jackson. This rotund, bearded man…
National Treasure
Historian/adventurer Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) has always been looking for history’s greatest treasure; he discovers that the back of the Declaration of Independence may harbor clues to it. Here’s an…
Patriot Games
After averting an IRA attack on members of the royal family in London, and killing one of the terrorist's brothers, CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) becomes a marked man.…