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For Roma to attain its full power, a viewer must exhibit not only patience but fortitude. The movie’s leisurely, borderline-somnambulant pace during its first hour allows writer/director Alfonso Cuaron to gradually immerse us into this ordin...

For lovers of romantic comedies through the ages, Roman Holiday remains a favorite. Despite being directed by one of Hollywood's "heavy hitters," William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur), and starring bankable star Gregory Peck, th...

Denzel Washington is one of the great actors of his generation so how he got involved in this muddled film, with its grandiose dialogue and meandering narrative, is a real head-scratcher. Even more puzzling is why he agreed to use make-up and ...

Sometimes, it's virtually impossible to understand how things work in Hollywood. Crap like Captivity and Norbit get releases while offbeat, enjoyable productions like Romance and Cigarettes languish. The film received its world premiere two years...

A staple of high school literature classes, Romeo & Juliet has proven no less popular with filmmakers, who return to this classic on a regular basis. The problem with making a new version of Shakespeare's most read romance is that, like Hamlet, the...

In Looking for Richard, actor/director Al Pacino expresses his great hope for his film -- to extend his enthusiasm for the Bard's plays to a broader audience. In a very different way, that's what Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) is attempting to d...

Roofman purports to tell the true story of serial thief Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum), a criminal dubbed by the media as “Roofman” (thanks to his m.o. of entering target locations through the roof) during a two-year spree in which he rob...

It's very easy to wax poetic about the sport of baseball, and I'm not just talking "Mighty Casey has struck out." Baseball may not be the most popular sport in North America, but it has a history and mythology like no other. The giants of past er...

Rory O'Shea Was Here treads a fine line between offering an unvarnished look at the tribulations of being disabled and stumbling into the realm of Hollywood-inspired claptrap. At its best, Damien O'Donnell's film peers into aspects of the lives of...

Jon Stewart takes the true story of Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, who was held captive and subjected to deprivation and interrogation in Iran for 118 days during 2009, and injects elements of wit and humor into an otherwise brutal tale. By det...