Movies starring Nat

The term “an interesting failure” was coined for movies like Megalopolis, an incoherent (but often fascinating) excursion into the mind of writer/director Francis Ford Coppola. An allegorical exploration of modern-day America, this movie i...

February 22, 1980. For hockey fans, that day will be forever remembered. "The Miracle on Ice," as it became commonly known, was to some a battle in the Cold War and to others the greatest upset in sports history. But to those who played in the ga...

Mirror Mirror is the latest attempt to rework the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves," into something new, adventurous, and appealing to 2012 movie-goers. The result is mixed: the affable, family-friendly motion picture i...

Mission: Impossible III provides lots of action, but too little excitement. It generates lots of pyrotechnics, but too little heat. And it offers lots of Tom Cruise, but too little Ethan Hunt. In short, if you're yearning for a flashy, leave-you...

The Mist is what a horror film should be - dark, tense, and punctuated by just enough gore to keep the viewer's flinch reflex intact. In fact, that movie's ending is so uncompromising that one must assume director Frank Darabont had final cut so t...

A slickly-made exploitation film set during the War of 1812, Ted Geoghegan’s Mohawk is taut, bloody, and uncompromising – all with a dollop of social commentary thrown in for good measure. Like the recently released Hostiles (which is set ...

Serene. Beautiful. Untouchable. All of those words can be used to describe the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known painting, "The Mona Lisa." And, while almost everyone knows what she looks like, no one knows her story. Her life is a bla...

There are a lot of things going on during the course of the two hours comprising the running time of Monster, but the most forceful is the issue of perspective. How the narrative evolves is highly dependent on the point-of-view of the narrator and...

Spoilers... I guess. Those who care, however, will have already read the book and therefore can't be spoiled. When it comes to movies based on YA novels, there are two flavors: those designed exclusively for fans of the books (Twilight, for ex...

There's something a little annoying about a movie that tries this shamelessly to be endearing and family friendly. Typically, these kinds of films feature Santa Claus in a significant role. Here, there is no Santa but there is a 243-year old guy ...