Tom Hanks’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominated performance as TV host star Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is skilled, appealing and ingratiating. It gets right under your skin. It is better than […]
Director Terence Young’s 1970 European co-production action crime thriller Cold Sweat stars the unlikely trio of Charles Bronson, James Mason and Liv Ullmann, plus Bronson’s wife and regular co-star Jill Ireland. Mason stars as Captain […]
Director Vincente Minnelli comes a cropper with this stilted 1962 remake of the 1921 Rudolph Valentino silent classic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The good star cast of Glenn Ford (as Julio Desnoyers), Ingrid […]
A quartet of runners gets ready for the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon in Michael Winner’s acceptable, occasionally exciting 1970 sports drama The Games, which is attractively filmed on globetrotting locations. Though the schematic yarn, loosely […]
Producer-director Nathan Juran’s 1964 East of Sudan is a simple, familiar, good-looking colonial adventure movie, with stalwart performances from Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter and Johnny Sekka, who help to make it […]
Director Matt Williams’s tastily offbeat 2000 comedy Where the Heart Is stars Natalie Portman as Novalee Nation, a pregnant teenager, quarrelling with her mom (Sally Field) and then abandoned by her boyfriend (Dylan Bruno) in a […]
Producer-director John Boorman’s 1990 comedy drama Where the Heart Is is a modern comedic New York version of King Lear, with Dabney Coleman as Stewart McBain, an arrogant builder real-estate mogul who kicks out his […]