Category: movies

    Maybe you haven’t watched The Wizard of Oz in a while. It’s not just for kids. There are grown-up songs, introduced by Over the Rainbow, and probably you […]...

    This justly famous short story by Paul Gallico is surprisingly simple in its construction and densely emotional in its impact. There are familiar plot elements: ugly old man […]...

    The plot isn’t complicated. It’s World War II, the American brass want to wipe out a French chateau filled with high-ranking German officers, and Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) […]...

    The Best Offer (2013, rated R, 131 minutes) knocks you down with a surprise ending worthy of the name. I don’t indulge in spoiler alerts. Watch the movie […]...

    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 […]...