Walt Disney Pictures continues their practice of recent years of remaking classic films, this time reimagining "The Little Mermaid" into a live action version of the 1989 animated feature. Director Rob Marshall ("Mary Poppins Returns" 2018) and screenwriter David Magee have retained much of the charm [..]

"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant" is the true story, set in the Afghanistan War, of a local interpreter who risks his life to transport an injured American soldier across 100 kilometers of Taliban-infested mountains and deserts to safety. Director Guy Ritchie ("Aladdin" 2019) was in charge of [..]

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon team up for their ninth movie together in the sports/business film "Air." The nearly two-hour movie tells the true story of the events surrounding the development of Michael Jordon's Air Jordan basketball shoe in the 1980's. It was the [..]

"Guadalcanal Diary" is a World War II film chronicling the arrival of the first contingent of U. S. Marines on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands to start an offensive to remove military forces of the Empire of Japan. Director Lewis Seiler ("The Big Shot" 1942) and screenwriters [..]

"The Westerner" is a solid horse opera about Judge Roy Bean's conflict in Texas with a drifter who defends homesteaders against Bean's cattle baron allies. Director William Wyler ("Wuthering Heights" 1939) employed excellent production values in this movie, such as loads of action sequences, beautiful cinematography [..]

Fred Astaire plays a ballet dancer who falls in love with a tap dancer, played by Ginger Rogers, just by seeing her photograph, causing all sorts of trouble in "Shall We Dance." Director Mark Sandrich ("Follow the Fleet" 1936) was at the top of his [..]

An unassuming greeting card writer from a small town in Vermont moves to New York City after inheriting a massive fortune from his uncle and is immediatley hounded by people trying to take advantage of him in "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Director Frank Capra ("It Happened One [..]

Ginger Rogers plays an American traveling to England to get a divorce, meets and falls in love with Fred Astaire, followed by lavish song-and-dance numbers in "The Gay Divorcee." Director Mark Sandrich ("Melody Cruise" 1933) made sure this film was a top-rate vehicle for the talents [..]

George Clooney plays a successful divorce lawyer who specializes in getting cheating husbands off the hook from expensive settlements, but when Catherine Zeta-Jones is denied any divorce compensation in one of his cases, she goes all-out for revenge in "Intolerable Cruelty." Director Joel Coen ("Fargo" 1996) [..]

"I Love You, Man" is a comedy film about a friendless man trying to find a best man for his rapidly-approaching wedding. Director John Hamburg ("Along Came Polly" 2004) put together an uneven "bromantic" comedy with frequent comedic lines misfiring. Blame the mediocre screenplay he co-wrote with Larry [..]