"The Offer" provides a comprehensive look at the development and production of the landmark film "The Godfather." The ten part miniseries series from Michael Tolkin ("The Rapture" 1991), which premiered on the Paramount+ streaming channel in April, 2022, clearly portrays the difficulties with casting and production, [..]

It took 36 years, but Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer finally came out with a sequel to "Top Gun" (1986) called "Top Gun: Maverick." The storyline has Cruise's Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell instructing younger Navy pilots. Their new set of skills are soon tested in an unexpected military [..]

"Zootopia" is a computer-animated movie about a bunny rabbit police officer and fox con artist teaming up to investigate the disappearance of various animals of Zootopia. Directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore put together a colorful and imaginative feature-length cartoon film from an excellent screenplay by [..]

Ben Affleck makes his directorial debut in "Gone Baby Gone," a hard-hitting crime drama about two investigators searching for a missing four-year-old girl. Their search is complicated by police corruption, child abuse, moral dilemmas in their local Boston neighborhood, and more. Affleck generally did [..]

"Great Expectations" is the story of a poor orphan boy named Pip who discovers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he become a gentleman. So the boy gets an allowance, a free education, and life experiences making for an interesting story which director David [..]

"Flow" is an animated film telling the story of a cat caught in a great flood and finding refuge on a small boat with four other animals (golden retriever dog, secretary bird, beaver, lemur), who must cooperate to survive. Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis created a unique and innovative [..]

The Best Picture of 2022 is....."Everything Everywhere All at Once." Confusion reigns, on purpose, in the comedy-drama film from directors-screenwriters Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (known as "the Daniels"). They deliberately blend and bend the conventional motion picture boundaries in this story of a [..]

"Breakthrough" is a faith-based drama about a 14-year-old boy who fell through the ice on a frozen lake and was underwater for fifteen minutes. After being declared dead, his mother prays for a miracle, with the drama proceeding from there. Roxann Dawson was outstanding [..]

"Suburbicon" is a dark comedy about a suburban family in 1959 who face all sorts of troubles like a home invasion, family problems, and racial tension in the neighborhood. Director George Clooney ("The Ides of March" 2011) put together a black comedy which is almost incomprehensible [..]

"Den of Thieves" is a crime drama about a Los Angeles County Sheriff who tries to stop a group of high-powered criminals from robbing the Federal Reserve building in L. A. Director-screenwriter Christian Gudegast, in his big screen debut, does an excellent job of putting [..]