"The Bad News Bears" is a sports comedy film about an alcoholic ex-professional baseball pitcher hired to coach a youth baseball team called the Bears. Walter Matthau is perfect in the lead role as the coach who is a bit rough around the edges. Director Michael [..]

"Plane" is a riveting action thriller movie which stars Gerard Butler as an airplane pilot who must crash land a plane en route from Singapore to Honolulu (via Tokyo). As fate would have it, they had to make the emergency landing on a Philippine island controlled by [..]

"Empire of Light" is the story of employees at a movie theater in the coastal town of Margate, United Kingdom, in the 1980's. The main character is Hilary Small, the duty manager, whose struggles in life, particularly with bipolar disorder, begins to interfere with her job. [..]

John Wayne is definitely the star of the show in "Chisum," where he plays a rancher and cattle baron who gets caught in the middle of the Lincoln County War of 1878 in New Mexico. Director Andrew V. McLaglen ("Bandolero!" 1968) and screenwriter-producer Andrew J. Fenady instilled [..]

"Bad News Bears" is the story of a disgraced former MLB player hired to coach a children's baseball team with poor playing skills. Producer-director Richard Linklater ("School of Rock" 2003) instilled this sports comedy with plenty of laughs, maybe going overboard a bit when the coach supplied [..]

"The Creator" is a science fiction film about the near future when there will be a war between the human race and the forces of AI (artificial intelligence). Producer-director Gareth Edwards ("Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" 2016), who also wrote the screenplay with Chris Weitz, created [..]

Low expectations will help if you go to the theater to view "The Expendables 4." The action movie is plagued by poor writing, bad acting, sluggish dialogue, a non-existent plot, and more, thanks to just plain bad movie-making by director Scott Waugh ("Need for Speed" 2014) and [..]

Steve McQueen and Lee Remick deliver strong performances in "Baby, the Rain Must Fall." Remick plays a woman who moves across Texas with her daughter to attempt a reconciliation with her husband, played by McQueen, who has just been released from prison. It's a tough road [..]

The laughs do not come as abundantly as one might expect from a Neil Simon comedy in "Come Blow Your Horn." This story of a young man moving out of his parents house and into his playboy big brother's apartment was not expertly handled by director Bud [..]

"Seven Days in May" is an exciting political thriller about an attempted military takeover of the U. S. government when the President negotiates a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. Director John Frankenheimer ("Birdman of Alcatraz" 1962) and screenwriter Rod Serling skillfully crafted this superior Cold War [..]