I love "L A Confidential." It makes a coherent film out of a James Ellroy novel. Very well done.

He won't be satisfied until he makes a movie in which every actor has something stuck over their faces so they talk like the adults in the "Peanuts" TV specials.

I hope you like it.

I liked "The Wilderness Years" very much. I still remember that scene after Churchill's automobile accident, and a group of schoolboys has come to see him, and one asks him "What will you do now that your public life is over." The teacher hustles the boys away, but Hardy just sits there, his face a look of utter…

He was superb as Winston Churchill in "The Wilderness Years" in the early 80s. He was also very good as a doomed aristocrat in Hammer's "Demons of the Mind" from the early Seventies. What a long and terrific career he had.

Does anyone have any idea why "War for the Planet of the Apes" seems to be sinking like a stone at the box office?

Her Cindy Lou Who is a wonderful part of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Glad to see some love for "Martin" at last. It is easily my favorite Romero film. He had some compelling characters in this movie (I was really impressed with Cuda in particular.) and he doesn't let his "message" get in the way of the story.

That made me laugh.

This has to be the most heavily advertized movie of the last year. It seemed for a while that every time I saw a movie since July 2016, there was a trailer for "Dunkirk" shown before it.

Wonderful review. If laughter is the best medicine, you've really done wonders for me today.

So what real-life person will be the villain in "Wonder Woman 2"? Al Haig, Yuri Andropov?

"District B-13" was a lot of fun. I need to see it again sometime.

"Mickey," and "Monster Mash" make me smile every time.

The discussion in the Forties could be boiled down in simplistic terms to Realism was good because it awakened the viewer to social conditions and injustices while Formalism (especially German Expressionism) was bad because it hid social conditions and conditioned the viewer to accept simplistic attitudes toward life.…

I can see "Phantom of the Opera" as part of the Dark Universe, because it is close enough to a horror story.

I've read that story too. It's a great one.

Here's an idea. Is the shift toward superhero movies Hollywood's muddled response to the issue of glorifying gun violence? Because it seems to me that movies about gangsters and cops are gradually fading away, they seem small and inconsequential. (Admittedly, this could be a function of where I live — a small town…

I would love to have seen "Frankenstein" in 1931, that is before the Monster's face became one of the most familiar faces in the world.

There is a book by John Lukacs, "Five Days in London," which looks at the moment in May 1940 when Churchill solidified the Cabinet he inherited upon becoming Prime Minister, a Cabinet that included several appeasers, and made it clear there would be no peace with Hitler. When I first heard about this movie, that's…