After rebooting his career with two small scale earth-bound pictures, The Wrestler and Black Swan, to my surprise Aronofsky launched bac...

Steven Spielberg’s slavery drama exemplifies the late-career inconsistencies of the hitmaker. Startling moments of dramatic intensity and...

With Easter coming around, this also means the season of a historical epics – both in theatres and home video. Agony and the Ecstasy was ...

It’s impossible to watch Fast and Furious 6, now on Blu/DVD/Digital, without the tragedy of Paul Walker’s passing in mind. The experience...

This moody ghost story resounds as a rich and textured gothic haunted house film containing some of the best ghostly special effects of its ...

This French hit, the story of a rich paraplegic white man who forms an unlikely friendship with an unrefined black caretaker/assistant is...

The film’s demise among the glut of summer blockbuster fare is not surprising. The idea of a revisionist history story of Abe Lincoln’s alte...

This soft and unambitious indie hit from this year’s Sundance Film Festival arguably overachieves from its aspirations as a low-rent love st...

With almost no dialogue, a wisp of a story and a vigorous repetition of images and sound Terrence Malick has entered full-on self-indulgent...

To his credit, Len Wiseman admirably creates enough of a different looking world that rarely does the Paul Verhoeven version come to mind w...

Thinking about this film tears me apart. For each of its 120 minutes, Prometheus is fascinating with a palpable feeling of cinematic moment...

Madonna spins the historical King Edward/Wallis Simpson yarn into a cross-generational tale of emotional regrets and steamy illicit desire....

War Horse (2011) dir. Steven Spielberg Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, **½ By Alan Bacchus There's a great d...

The Magnificent Seven (1961) dir. John Sturges Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Horst Buchho...

9½ Weeks (1984) dir. Adrian Lyne Starring: Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke **½ By Alan Bacchus The career of Adrian Lyne fascinates me. H...

Pretty Woman (1990) dir. Garry Marshall Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander **½ By Alan Bacchus Has ther...

Rampart (2011) dir. Oen Moverman Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Ice Cube, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Ned Beatty, Sigo...

The House I Live In (2012) dir. Eugene Jarecki Documentary **½ By Alan Bacchus It's been over 40 years since the term 'War on...

War Horse (2011) dir. Steven Spielberg Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Niels Arestrup **½ By Alan B...

1941 (1979) dir. Steven Spielberg Starring: Bobby Di Cicco, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Toshiro Mifune, Nancy Allen, **½ ...