Movie review: ‘The Italian Job’ (2003)

Hollywood and the filmmaking industry in general is currently a wasteland because it suffers a seeming congenital case of a … More

Movie review: ‘The Mechanic’ (2011)

I consider the original “The Mechanic” (click here to read my review) and original “Death Wish” (click here to read … More

For today’s movie recommendation, I’m taking time to give a RIP to Donald Sutherland, who passed at 88 in Miami … More

“Eye of the Needle” is a great novel by Ken Follett. It has an excellent story premise that is wonderfully … More

Back in the day, you knew you were in for a treat if you saw a film announced as “Neil … More

Some dark, dramatic films get that way because of the story and the quality and breadth of the cast – … More

I hadn’t tackled any dark dramas in the first five-plus months that I’d been doing a daily movie review for … More

I’ve reviewed “Role Models” (click here to read it), a comedy that included youngsters but still had that profane edge … More

“Kelly’s Heroes” from 1970 is one of my all-time favorite films. No, it certainly isn’t the best World War II … More

Few novelists or screenwriters can pull off making German soldiers of World War II as sympathetic characters. Of course, fighting … More

“The Bedford Incident” is a sublime, intricate Cold War thriller that doesn’t have to rely on special effects (the few … More