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The Holdovers (2023)
"The Holdovers" is a comedy-drama film that tells the story of an unpopular teacher at a New England prep school given the job of supervising a handful of students who have nowhere to go for the two weeks of the Christmas break. Director Alexander Payne ("About Schmidt" 2002) [..]
Priscilla (2023)
Producer-director-screenwriter Sofia Coppola has made a film that takes a look at the extraordinary life of Priscilla Presley. Adapted from Presley's 1985 autobiography "Elvis and Me," the movie depicts the good, the bad, and the ugly of her marriage to the rock-and-roll legend. [..]
Gloria (1980)
Gena Rowlands delivers a tour-de-force performance as a gangster's girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy being pursed by mobsters. He possesses a ledger containing damaging information on them which the FBI is also looking for. Rowlands literally dominated the entire film, along with the [..]
The Drowning Pool (1975)
"The Drowning Pool" is a Paul Newman vehicle where he reprises his role of private detective Lew Harper from 1966's "Harper." Director Stuart Rosenberg ("The April Fools" 1969) did a good job of putting together a slick drama with good writing and top-rate performances. The screenplay [..]
Troy (2004)
"Troy" is producer-director Wolfgang Petersen's ambitious attempt to depict the ten year Trojan War in one two-hour, forty-three minute long motion picture. The screenplay by David Benioff is loosely based on Homer's timeless classic "Iliad," written sometime in the 8th century B. C. Petersen was successful [..]
Garden State (2004)
"Garden State" is a drama-comedy film directed, written, and starring Zach Braff. The star of television's "Scrubs" (2001-2010) incorporated his own life experiences into this entertaining story of a guy returning to his hometown in New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Braff's first attempt [..]
After Death (2023)
"After Death" is a documentary film chronicling the experiences of numerous persons who have had near-death experiences, and what happed to them after they died and came back to life. The film features numerous interviews and some reenactments of events. Interviewees include [..]
Hocus Pocus (1993)
"Hocus Pocus" is a Halloween comedy film about three witches from 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, who are suddenly translated three hundred years into the future to 1993, on Halloween night. The three villainous and mischievous women cause all kinds of trouble and hijinks, contributing greatly to the [..]
Freelance (2023)
"Freelance" is an action film telling the story of a retired Army Special Forces agent who takes a job providing security for an American journalist as she travels to the mythical South American country of Paldonia to interview the president of the country. They run into trouble, as [..]
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Director Martin Scorsese ("The King of Comedy" 1982) has put together an epic crime drama set in the 1920's about a series of murders on the Osage Nation Indian reservation after the discovery of oil in "Killers of the Flower Moon." Scorsese has incorporated very high production [..]