“If you can't trust your friends, well what then?” Danny Boyle is best known today for shooting award-winning, feature-length Nike commercials, but he began his film career with this award-winning, f
Before there was "Love Story" with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal from 1970, there was...wait for it... "Love Story" from 1944. Well, OK, there have been almost three dozen movies titled "Love Story" fro
The history of television is full of novelty sitcoms, like “My Mother the Car” (about a man’s dead mother who comes back as an automobile), “My Favorite Martian” (about a Martian who rooms with an Ear
If anything, I suspect that Robert Greenwald's new documentary “Koch Brothers Exposed” (2012) undersells the sheer vileness of the scions of wealth who have leveraged a nearly unparalleled stash of pr
There are so many TV shows that, especially if you don’t have pay cable, it’s tough to keep up. Somehow I’ve managed to miss “Entourage,” the HBO series that’s loosely based on the early Hollywood yea
Like “Schindler’s List” (1993),**“In Darkness”**tells the story of a gentile who saves a number of Jews from the Nazi holocaust. But while O
“Franklin & Bash” was promoted in the UK as “’Ally McBeal’ with balls,” and I think that’s fair. Like the popular late ‘90s series, this one is a comedy-drama involving lawyers whose antics are ju
"You're a f...ing crazy man! " "And that's a fact. I believe you're getting the hang of this. " Maybe the ironic title says it all: There is no such thing as "A Perfect World. " Clint Eastwood co-sta
I’ll be honest. I didn’t want to write this review, but the devil made me do it. When “Ghost Rider” (2007) cruised onto Blu-ray, I gave it a good [review](http://moviemet.com/review/ghost-rider-blu-r
Stories of underdogs in the sports genre are nothing new for Hollywood. Since sports movies date back to the silent era, the list of sport movies is growing every year, making the stories more familia
ommy Lee Jones is one of those well-known actors who possesses a ton of talent and charisma and has made a boatload of movies. Yet I'm betting you know him best from his co-starring roles in "The Fugi
As I watched “Chicago in Chicago,” a sold-out concert recorded in 2010 at the Charter One Pavilion in the city where the group formed, I was struck by the fact that the musical group Chicago has had a