Andy's Film Blog

In 1969 New York City policemen raided the Stonewall Inn which was mob run and was operating without a liquor license. These reasons did not...

Frank Capra won his second of three directorial Oscars for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, a film made with his longtime collaborator and screenwrit...

In an Orwellian alternate reality emphasized by bureaucracy, a pencil pusher from an affluent family spends his time fancying himself a hero...

With the telling of the story of conservationist John Muir, American Masters has crafted another fascinating story about an incredible life....

In the mid 90s, a group of French Catholic monks reside among a local Muslim community in Algeria. The film follows them as they engage in t...

I wanted to revisit Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, fearing I may not have gotten enough out of it the first time around, and I'm glad I...

Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday is grumbling in his stagecoach en route to his new detail in a remote fort in the American southwest. He ha...

There has been ten years of peace in the London underworld, and now mob boss Harry (Bob Hoskins) has finally found his chance to go legit...

After doing a stretch in the joint, George returns to his boss who said he would take care of him with the expectations work. He is given...

Oh how critics can put a damper on your expectations for a film. When I saw the previews for Water for Elephants, the adaptation of Sara Gru...

On the British Isle of Jersey, a woman and her two young children await in seclusion in a Victorian mansion for her husband serving in World...

A retiree has formed a relationship with a customer service representative by tearing up his CIA checks and engaging her in conversation whe...

In the fall of 1962, a spy plane took pictures of Russian missiles being assembled in Cuba. This led to a nearly two week conflict in which ...

A British author is late for his own book discussion at a gallery in Tuscany, Italy. He has written a book that shares its name with the fil...

As John Wilkes Booth carried out his monstrous deed in Ford's Theater on April 14. 1865, it was part of a grander plot that included ...

Towards the latter part of the 1960s The Beatles had broken up, The Rolling Stones were no longer making music, and people were generally ti...

Following the lukewarm response to The Da Vinci Code, Ron Howard and Tom Hanks are back with Angels & Demons, a prequel that likewise dw...

Cary Grant was an inimitable leading man, bringing grace, humor, talent, and class to the big screen. Cary Grant: A Class Apart offers a hum...

For someone who doesn't know a Buick from a Benz, I was expected to be totally bored with Cars, a film that definitely holds a high a...

In 1964, the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi was a hotbed of racial strife as it was the location where the three civil rights worke...

In 1957 small town Maine, a mischievous and lonely boy is playing in the restaurant where his single mother works. He overhears the town coo...

Errol Morris has made a career out of documenting eccentrics, and it all began with this little film in 1978. Here Morris interviews peop...

A young girl (Saoirse Ronan) was raised and spent her entire live somewhere in the forested European wilderness, where she has been trained ...

Inside Job is the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary that traces the roots of the global economic crisis that we face today. It ...

Mother and Child tells the story of three women with the topic of adoption being the common thread that ties the stories together: A physica...