All About Steve (2009)

All About Steve (2009)

[3] Sandra Bullock gives her most offputting and peculiar performance in All About Steve, a film that sets the feminist movement back about fifty years. Bullock plays Mary, a woman in her forties who lives with her parents, tries to make a…
Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

[8] It's been 11 years since Toy Story 2, and the same amount of time has passed in Buzz and Woody's world. Andy is now heading off to college and the toys' fates are up in the air. Will they go with…
Push (2009)

Push (2009)

[3] Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning star as supernaturally gifted people on the run from a government agency that wants to control their powers. Think X-Men, but way watered down and not nearly as cool. There's some mediocre action in the beginning…
Never Say Never Again (1983)

Never Say Never Again (1983)

[4] Sean Connery returns for his final outing as James Bond in Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball and the only Bond film not produced by Cubbi Broccoli's EON Productions. Since it's an "unofficial" entry in the franchise, you won't…
What a Way to Go! (1964)

What a Way to Go! (1964)

[5] Shirley MacLaine plays a jinxed woman whose four husbands meet tragic ends in this satirical comedy about money and passion. There are a lot of great moments in What a Way to Go, but the sum isn't greater than the parts.…
Murder by Death (1976)

Murder by Death (1976)

[5] With a script by Neil Simon and an incredible all-star cast, I expected more from this spoof of murder mysteries. Most of the ensemble are confined to playing the same note throughout the film, including Peter Sellers as a simile-spewing Charlie Chan…
Gaslight (1944)

Gaslight (1944)

[7] Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three Oscars for this psychological thriller from George Cukor. Bergman plays a woman increasingly traumatized by her husband, a thief who nearly succeeds in convincing her that she's losing her mind. It's easy to…
Till the End of Time (1946)

Till the End of Time (1946)

[4] A young soldier (Guy Madison) struggles to find purpose to his life after returning home from service in WWII. The guy's problem isn't as clear as I'd like it to be. His friends (Robert Mitchum and Bill Williams) have obvious injuries,…
A Summer Place (1959)

A Summer Place (1959)

[6] A bold film for its time, A Summer Place deals with sexual awakening and reawakening. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue play the teenaged lovers; Richard Egan and Dorothy McGuire play the adulterous middle-aged ones. The first forty-five minutes of the story…
The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)

The Mummy’s Shroud (1967)

[4] An expedition team discovers the body of an ancient Egyptian prince, but when they bring it back to England, a mummy starts picking then off one by one. This Hammer horror sequel gets off to a shaky start with ten minutes of…