Best Years of Our Lives: Coming Home

Myrna Loy and Fredric March. Photo: RKO The premiere of The Best Years of Our Lives seemed to hit America like a ton of bricks. Coming the year after the…

The English Patient: Memories of Love

Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. Photo: Miramax Some people will always think of this film as the one that stole the Best Picture Oscar from Fargo. Fair enough, the…

Dunkirk: Surviving the Beach

Photo: Warner About 25 years ago, Christopher Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas were crossing the English Channel together with a friend. They were in a small sailing yacht headed…

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 

John Watson (Nigel Bruce), who’s serving as a doctor at a mansion turned into a wartime hospital, brings Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to investigate a mysterious assault… but the first…

Sherlock Holmes in Washington 

After the murder of an agent who was on his way to the United States, Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) go to Washington D.C. to find…

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon 

Posing as a spy in Switzerland, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) brings a scientist and his revolutionary bombsight to Britain, but it turns out that Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill) also wants…

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 

When Nazi saboteurs strike against the infrastructure in London, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is hired to identify the real identity behind the ”Voice of Terror”, a radio broadcast announcing the…

Imitation Game: Another Beautiful Mind

Benedict Cumberbatch. Photo: The Weinstein Company The title refers to a paper that the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1950 where he introduced his now-famous test of a machine’s…

From Here to Eternity: Before Armageddon

Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr. Photo: Columbia This is what Michael Bay was aiming for when he made Pearl Harbor (2001) – a hopefully engaging romance that's suddenly interrupted by…