A Christmas Memory, the 1966 Emmy Award–winning short film originally made for ABC, joined two other Capote tele-adaptations to form the theatrical release, Trilogy (1969). Capote wrote — and, in the case of A Christmas Memory, narrated — the screenplays, and Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife, Rancho Deluxe) …
YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT. They don't make childhood lookback pics like this any more. It's just possible that they never did.
Based on the humorous writings of author Jean Shepherd, this beloved holiday movie follows the wintry exploits of youngster Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), who spends most of his time dodging a bully (Zack Ward) and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift, a "Red Ryder air rifle."
Family reunion and reconciliation: the black sheep returns from banishment in time for his mother’s battle with cancer. The setting-up of who’s who is clumsy, and the occasional direct address to the camera is lazy, and two and a half hours are more than enough. But the unified French ensemble …
A young mother labeled impure. A shepherd boy considered “unclean.” Experience Jesus’ birth through their eyes, with a never-before-seen performance from Andrea Bocelli among the music performances and new monologues.
Holiday comedy, adapted from an anomalous novel by John Grisham (The Firm, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The this, The that), about a suburban couple who opt, after their only offspring has flown the coop into the Peace Corps, to buck the Christmas tradition and resist the social pressures …
But first the doubt, the ridicule, the intrigue, the sabotage, the mutiny, the head on the chopping block. And afterwards the sunken ship, the enslavement, the patricide, the storm at sea, the mortal illness. And always, always, the tedium, the monotony, the dullness, the grim determination to take Christopher Columbus …
After decades of dormancy — and wanting very much to reunite with his childhood pal — Winnie the Pooh finally figures out behind which tree door stands his all-grown-up childhood pal, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor, proving that he has what it takes to be live-action Disney’s newest alternative to Dean …
Two filmmakers embark on a worldwide quest sparked by the not-so-simple question “Is there a spiritual way to kill an animal?” Along the way, they discover what they characterize as "the biggest cover-up in the last 2,000 years."
Spider-Man meets X-Men in the story of an outcast high-school kid who gains incredible powers and ultimately decides that he’s now better than all those regular people who used to put him down. But the best part of the story is what comes in between those events: a growing friendship …
The summer is that of 1960; the place is Paris. In this environment, Jean Rouch, the ethnographer and documentarist who has devoted most of his professional life to Africa, has less to offer, less to do in the way of cultural mediation. He still has his cinéma-verité technique, however, and …
The follow-up to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, or as we could call it, The Lion, the Witch, No Wardrobe, maintains the medium-high standard of its forerunner, higher, that is, than the standards of such close-by epic cycles as the Lord of the Rings series and the Harry …
The mythic children's book by C.S.Lewis makes for a good children's film, better, to pick a couple of nearby co-ordinates, than any of the Harry Potters, better than any third of The Lord of the Rings, albeit still rather longish at two hours and twenty minutes. In the first place, …