Andy's Film Blog

A maid (Sandrine Bonnaire) concealing an illiteracy problem and a violent incident in her past goes to work for a benign, bourgeois famil...

During the last rain-drenched week before his a retirement, a weary city detective (Morgan Freeman) takes a new unseasoned, hotheaded tra...

A former, thought to be dead MI-6 agent (Sean Bean) plots with an onerous Russian General (Gottfried John) and a viperous, thigh crushing...

In an England resembling Nazi Germany, when the Lancaster king and his heir are killed during battle by the Yorks, hunchbacked Richard (I...

A Greek chorus warns of danger and tragedy lying ahead when a sportswriter (Woody Allen), unhappily married to a prospective art curator ...

Three sisters of the Dashwood family, introverted Elinor (Emma Thompson), outward and outspoken Marianne (Kate Winslet), and the precocio...

Popular miniseries, and one of the countless adaptations of the Jane Austen novel, is very well done, acted, mounted, etc. but doesn'...

A Hollywood screenwriter and raging alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) who had burned all his bridges long ago resolves to relocate to Vegas and dr...

Two Yugoslav best friends profit off the black market in 1942 when the Germans invade and build their industry during the Cold War, with ...

Following a deadly highway armored truck robbery, a hawkish L.A. detective (Al Pacino) is put on the trail of a seasoned bank robber (Rob...

A crack peddler (Mekhi Phifer) operating out of a Brooklyn Housing Project no longer has the stomach for the life but is torn due to loya...

When Orson Welles died in 1985 he left a laundry list of unrealized dreams and incomplete projects which, to name a few, included adaptat...

In the mid-90s, PBS premiered two unremarkable documentaries on Westward Expansion, the first entitled The Way West  by Ric Burns, the se...

The rise and fall of crackerjack handicapper Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro playing a character inspired by Lefty Rosentha...

Like most of the great filmmakers of his and following generations, Martin Scorsese is a cineaste, himself boasting an encyclopedic, obse...

A beautiful, highly ambitious, and totally unscrupulous TV weatherwoman (Nicole Kidman) finds her career in standstill in small-town New ...

It is the last day of the 20th Century and a crime ridden Los Angeles is about to erupt with news that the police department is implicit ...

Prime Suspect 7: The Last Act (2006) On the cusp of retirement, Jane draws the case of a missing teenager which she refuses to let go un...

Three juvenile delinquents, an Arab, black, and a Jew, roam aimlessly through the volatile streets of urban Paris. When one of their mate...

It seemed like destiny when Babe (the name his mother called all his siblings) was snatched from his family by carnival workers and stare...