Category: movies

    If you think you know what “hillbilly” means, watch Songcatcher and then think again. Songcatcher (2000, rated PG-13, 109 minutes) is, nominally, a story about illiterate hillbillies and […]...

    House of Games (1987, rated R, 102 minutes) offers some familiar good guy/bad guy stuff about gambling, con men, and a conventional dedicated psychiatrist who slowly learns that […]...

    The Guns of Navarone (1961, not rated, 158 minutes) was made more than 60 years ago and it got 7 Academy Award nominations. It’s obvious that Gregory Peck, […]...

    The fugitive is Dr. Richard Kimble (vigorously played by Harrison Ford), unjustly accused of murdering his wife and on the run from the police while he searches for […]...

    “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” (Revelation 6:8) Pale Rider (1985, rated […]...

    Frances McDormand can do comedy, in case you were wondering. She plays the title character in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008, rated PG, 92 minutes). Guinevere […]...

    Good vs. evil is the undercurrent of Eye of the Needle (1981, rated R, 112 minutes) but the drama is in the living and the dying of the […]...

    Gary Oldman was 59 years old when he won an Oscar (Best Actor) for giving us a completely believable Winston Churchill who decided in June 1940 to fight […]...

    Arrival is a reflective experience of first contact with aliens who are not like us. These are aliens who, ultimately, want to do good, but the humans have […]...

    A Little Chaos (2014, rated R, 117 minutes) didn’t win any prizes but it’s a modest prize of a movie. It’s a fictional story about the very real […]...