The beginning of The Magnificent Seven, sets the tone for the rest of the movie. A funeral director refuses to bury an Indian, because the townspeople are against it. Chris Larabee Adams, played by Yul Brynner, steps in. He says he’ll take the Indian up to be buried. He takes the hearse to the cemetery, […]

High Sierra is the movie that gave HumphreyBogart his first starring role. It was his last one as a bad guy, until he played Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogart plays Roy Earle, a convict paroled from prison, by his boss, so he can help some criminals, rob a resort

Red Dust is an ordinary melodrama that stars Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor. It was directed by Victor Fleming. It’s notable because Clark Gable playing Dennis Carson, launched a career playing masculine roles, and was on his way to becoming The King of Hollywood. The story is about Dennis Carson, who owns a

The western has been around since Hollywood has been making movies. There have been a fair amount of western stars, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott and Roy Rogers to name a few. The biggest and the best though was John Wayne. He proves this with his larger than life performance as Rooster Cogburn. This is the

Avengers: End Game is the sequel to Infinity War. It stars Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Remmer and Scarlett Johansson. It’s directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. The directors have done a credible job of bringing the MCU together, in what is said to be the final film in

What do you get when a troubled teenage gets super powers. You get Shazam, a comic book movie directed by David F. Sandberg, that’s one of the best in the DC film cannon. This film succeeds mainly because of the lighter tone. Billy Batson, played well by Asher Angel, is the street smart teenage boy,

Charlton Heston was the king of epic films, among them The Ten Commandments, El CID, 55 Days at Peking and Khartoum. The biggest and best of his films was Ben-Hur. It is large in scope and has very memorable scenes, among them, the unforgettable chariot race. It was directed by William Wyler. It also stars

MGM studios had many stars in Hollywood’s golden age. One of the best was two time academy award winner, Spencer Tracy. He is the star of the movie Northwest Passage. It’s a good film directed by King Vidor, about Major Richard Rogers and his rangers, a group of specially trained men, working with the British

How do you make a movie about one of the most divisive issues in America? That issue is abortion, and filmmakers Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon have made a film about it. It is a powerful film and they pull no punches. It is the story about Abby Johnson, who was the director of a