Director Mark Rydell’s 1974 movie Cinderella Liberty stars James Caan as warm-natured lonely US Navy sailor John Baggs Jr, who is enjoying an extended liberty pass of leave in Seattle after his service records are […]
Derek Cianfrance’s first film since his edgy epic crime thriller The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) is a very different kind of movie, a classy old-style romantic drama about a World War One battle-scarred, world-weary lighthouse keeper, Tom […]
Director Brad Furman’s intelligent and thoughtful real-life 2016 crime thriller focuses on Bryan Cranston’s strong and solid performance as Robert Mazur, a US Customs official who uncovers a money-laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and risks […]
Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s 2016 comedy drama musical La La Land is a good and clever film, graced with two award-worthy performances from Ryan Gosling as struggling jazz pianist Seb and Emma Stone as Mia, the aspiring actress he falls […]
Mel Gibson hits the Liam Neeson ‘protect a daughter’ Taken trail as ex-con Link, who reunites with his estranged wayward 17-year old daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) to protect her from Jonah (Diego Luna) and his drug […]
Back comes Tom Cruise, the 5’7” impersonator of novelist Lee Child’s original 6’5” Jack Reacher, a drifter with extreme combat and investigation skills, in this entirely acceptable, but not particularly distinguished time-passing sequel to Paramount’s moderately successful 2012 […]
Director Ho Kim’s handsome Chinese 2001 drama stars Luo Yan, who is touching as Madame Wu Ailian, a 40-year-old Chinese wife who falls for an American priest, Father Andre (played by Willem Dafoe), in 1938, when he […]
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