<br /> Starring: a menacing Jack Nicholson, a sobbing Shelley Duvall and a little boy with a lot to deal with for his age (Danny Lloyd) Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Plot: Jack Torrence takes a job as caretaker of the isolated Overlook hotel over winter with his wife and young son, who Sees Dead People. [...]
<br /> Starring: A few actors, a few planets Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Plot: A monkey throws a bone into the air. Some music goes dum-dum-dum-dum. Some planets spin. A computer turns nasty. A man dies in a room. Don’t ask questions. But is it any good? I first watched A Space Odyssey pre-2001, a [...]
<br /> Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges Directed by: Fred Zinnemann Plot: Marshal Will Kane has just gotten hitched and is hanging up his silver star to leave town when he hears that a former nemesis called Frank Miller, who he had arrested five years earlier, has been released from jail and is [...]
<br /> Starring: A great big mechanical shark, some red paint and some fake limbs. Plus Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Sheider and Robert Shaw Directed by: Steven Spielberg, who was quite a young ‘un at the time Plot: An American seaside town is harassed by a big shark that can play scary music every time it [...]
<br /> Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser, Carrie Henn Directed by: James Cameron (he of the big ship) Plot: The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is discovered in deep sleep over half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human [...]
<br /> Starring: It’s animated. Voices are courtesy of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe Directed by: Andrew Stanton Plot: Marlon is overly protective of his only son Nemo the clownfish after a shark gobbles up the rest of his family. But Nemo, defiantly venturing out too far one day, lands in a [...]
<br /> Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton Directed by: Woody Allen Plot:Alvy Singer, a neurotic and geeky New York comedian who acts coincidentally like Woody Allen, falls in love with ditsy nightclub singer Annie Hall. They bicker a lot and have therapy. But is it any good? Annie Hall was comedian Woody Allen’s breakthrough movie. [...]
<br /> Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Brendan Gleeson Directed by: Mel Gibson Plot: Scotsman William Wallace, with long, flowing locks and a loud roar, unites his 13th-century countrymen to overthrow English rule. But is it any good? I hadn’t felt the need to see Braveheart before last night. But a friend of a friend [...]