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Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, numerous motion pictures have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to capture one or more aspects of the most contentious American conflict of the 20th century. From this crop, three stand...

Playtime, the 1967 comedy from acclaimed French director Jacques Tati, is an odd film (even coming out of a tradition of filmmaking that prided itself on defying conventions and breaking barriers). With no real plot and little in the way of ch...

Polina is mesmerizing. Part of that is because perhaps 50% of the scenes are dance-related, choreographed by co-director Angelin Preljocaj. Another part is because the lead, Anastasia Shevtsova (making her acting debut), is a classically-trai...

Popstar, a collaboration between Judd Apatow and Saturday Night Live alum Andy Samberg, is the latest movie to satirize aspects of popular culture (in this case, the music industry). And, although this might have been considered cutting edge 20 or 30...

Irwin Allen would be proud. Poseidon is a throwback - a 1970s-style disaster film made with 2006-era special effects. The movie delivers in most of the ways that matter for a motion picture of this ilk, with Poseidon never trying to be something ...

A Prairie Home Companion is proof that age has not caused director Robert Altman to turn toward conventional, crowd-pleasing forms of cinema. Despite a folksy, low-key appeal, this movie is likely to primarily interest fans of Garrison Keillor's p...

Henry Koster's 1947 release, The Bishop's Wife, earned Academy Award Nominations for both Best Picture and Best Director. Starring Cary Grant as an angel sent to earth to aid a struggling cleric, the film, which combines elements of Charles Dicken...

As something of a World War II buff, I know a thing or two about D-Day. Yet the story told in Pressure, based on real events as presented in David Haig's stage play of the same name, was partially new to me. While I knew the weather played a s...