Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

How is your intuition? Mine is amazing. For some things it works like a charm. For other stuff, it is a dud. Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) calls into a late night talk radio show looking for a new mother. His widowed father Sam (Tom Hanks) ends up on the phone laying bare his... [Read more]

K-911 (1999)

I’ve never had a dog. People who have one tell me there is a lot to do to maintain their health and well-being. But I don’t think that is the whole story. Dooley (James Belushi) has been teamed up with Jerry Lee (Mac) for about 10 years now and he brushes the dog’s... [Read more]

Carolina Moon (2007)

Wasn’t it one of the Wolfe boys who said that you can’t go home again? I suppose it is true in an abstract sense since all places and those returning are not the same as time passes. You can go back but you shouldn’t expect things to be the same as when you... [Read more]

U.S. Marshals (1998)

I don’t know how many days it took to film, how many people were involved, what sort of complexity it took to place the cameras, how often they had to do it to get it right or who did the actual stunt. I just sit there open-mouthed when United States Marshall Sam Gerard (Tommy... [Read more]

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino respectively) have just wandered into the wrong bar to meet a local rounder, after crossing the border with the kidnapped family of Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his two children, Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest... [Read more]

Dog Park (1998)

There are times in your life when an opportunity presents itself and you know that if you handle it properly, all sorts of wonderful things will happen. But how do you proceed? Andy (Luke Wilson) is asked by Lorna (Natasha Henstridge) to crack her neck when she is felling morose... [Read more]

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

I remember meeting a fellow who seemed to be a about a mile wide and an inch deep. He knew a little about a lot of things but not very much about any one topic. I thought he’d last about 10 minutes in his job and flit off to something else in the blink of an eye. But he... [Read more]

Ronin (1998)

The process of tracking someone is more of an art than a science. Figuring out where they are going and what they are doing is not a challenge for amateurs. Deidre (Natascha McElhone) and Sam (Robert De Niro) make it look easy but it could serve as a textbook example as the pose... [Read more]

Forces of Nature (1999)

Each time we meet somebody, we form an impression of who they are, what they’re like and how they will handle themselves in many situations. Sometimes we’re surprised and other times, we’re not. Ben Holmes (Ben Affleck) has just met Vic DeFranco (Jack Kehler)... [Read more]

Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)

How much discipline does one need to avoid straying from the path assigned to you? You’ve been given the task to carry out the assigned instructions but there is the temptation to stray and to be distracted by something shiny. You figure there doesn’t seem to be any... [Read more]

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Neal Page (Steve Martin) is squeezed into coach after being bumped from first class. He is seated beside Del Griffith (John Candy) who proceeds to take off his shoe and then his sock, waving it around to all and sundry and killing every small animal in the vicinity. ... [Read more]

Stone Cold (2005)

Candace Pennington (Alexis Dziena) has been raped. Her parents Margaret (Victoria Snow) and Chuck (Ralph Small) drag her down to the police chief, Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck), and demand to know what he is going to do about it. But Candace’s mother has washed her, redressed... [Read more]