Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Simon Pegg (The Boxtrolls, The World’s End) stars as the titular Hector, a psychiatrist whose life is so predictable and routine to the point where he feels he has squeezed out any ability to be...
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
Although the theme song, self-destruct message, and spy capers are certainly derived from the television show, those who’ve watched the long-running series regularly in the 1960s or in reruns should note that this big...
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Tom Hanks (The Polar Express, The Terminal) stars as renowned professor of historical religious symbolism Robert Langdon, who finds himself embroiled in a deadly web of intrigue when an old crony ends up murdered in...
The Crimson Rivers (2000)
While there are some viewers who may like The Crimson Rivers (the French title is Les Rivieres Pourpres) for its very dark subject matter and the director’s energetic, sweeping style, it doesn’t make the mystery of the...
Just Visiting (2001)
JUST VISITING is one of those remakes that will make you say “Why did they bother?” After all, this is an American remake of a French film that only came out eight years before,...
Godzilla (1998)
The Godzilla films originated in Japan during the 1950s as an allegory for the deadly destruction of nuclear weapons, embodied in a creature created by massive radiation imbued with cataclysmic powers. Its production house,...
Ronin (1998)
The Japanese word for a master-less samurai is “Ronin”. Fittingly enough, a group of international mercenary covert op specialists are employed by a mysterious underground spy organization to obtain a suitcase they do not...
The Visitors (1993) | Les Visiteurs
A brutish 11th Century medieval lord and his lowly peasant squire are magically transported to France of today. Here, they meet one of the lord’s descendants, and enlists her help in trying to find...