Regular readers of my comments will recognize a familiar refrain when I complain that too many modern movies — especially action adventures — have a failing when they depict actions without consequences.  Sure, movies are fantasy, but realistic consequences always […]

Yet another science-fiction oriented young adult series debuts from 20th Century-Fox, the studio that has specialized in science-fiction epics since the 1960s.  This one has amnesiac young men trying to survive in a glade surrounded by a huge stone maze. […]

It used to be that some television series (and later TV movies as remakes) were derived from hit films.  That still occurs, but more often now movies originate on the small screen, then migrate to the big screen as big […]

Upon hearing that Kevin Kline was going to portray Errol Flynn in a new movie, I was dubious, but I shouldn’t have been.  Kline is and has always been a very good actor whose movie roles haven’t always matched the […]

This is a well-made, classy movie that should make foodies drool and which hopes to inspire its viewers to treat everyone with respect.  It’s “hook” is the food angle — specifically its story of how an Indian family establishes a […]

Utopian / dystopian societal films are extremely difficult to make well, evidently, because there are so few great examples out there.  The Giver has a lot of merit going for it, especially in the first half, but then it, too, breaks […]

Not all sports stories are inspirational but most of them are, or try to be, and some of the best have messages or statements about life that transcend their sporting tales. When the Game Stands Tall attempts to be one of […]