4 years after the mega-hit and all time classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Director George Roy Hill and its stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up again and found that same movie magic with THE STING. I'm not sure there have ever been two movie stars more relaxed and effortlessly cool than Newman and Redford. Redford plays small-time con man Hooker, who crosses the wrong gangster by mistake during a street hustle. His long time partner is killed by crime

Jodie Foster's HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS feels like a Thanksgiving turkey overstuffed with drama, comedy and a lot of melancholy, but damned if dessert doesn't almost bail out the meal. The cast is a holiday feast in itself. The always excellent Holly Hunter (Always, Broadcast News) is Claudia, a art restorer who starts off Thanksgiving week by getting fired by, and making out with, her much older boss Peter (Austin Pendelton). It's the opening scene of the film and the first of

On October 15th, as the weather cools and jack o'lanterns appear, it feels like time to go back and revisit some horror hits from the past! A massive box office hit back in 1979, WHEN A STRANGER CALLS grossed $21 million against a $1 million budget. Most famous for its opening 20 minutes, which audiences of the time found terrifying, it opens with a young Carol Kane (Taxi, Annie Hall) as a babysitter who starts receiving menacing phone calls. The heavy breather will only say

Talky but smart, well acted by an all star cast, 1977's TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING was Director Robert Aldrich's (The Dirty Dozen, The...

Not only one of the best comedies of all time, but also one of the best films in history, 1982's TOOTSIE is a groundbreaking film...

You would think that only Mel Brooks could merge Shakespeare, a theatre troupe and the Gestapo into hilarious comedy, but TO BE OR NOT...

In the last 35 years, Brian De Palma has become one of my favorite, if most eccentric directors. His first foray into the...

One of my fave Burt Reynolds films from the 80's, this has some great moments including the opening titles and action sequence,...

In 1994, just before "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski", the Coen Brothers made their first foray into big budgets and bigger stars with THE...

Universal Studios was turning out disaster movies at a rapid pace in 1975 when they released one of the more offbeat genre entrees, THE...

One of my favorite Brian De Palma films and my go to example of the potential of elevating junk into entertainment, 1978's THE FURY is...

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are in fine form in the 1974 comedy, THE FRONT PAGE, but they are better than the film as a whole....

Charles Bronson ruled the action box office in the seventies with reliable films like 1975's BREAKHEART PASS. Faithfully adapted from...

Like the Texas bordello of its title, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS is filled with some predictable fun and more than a few...