The MovieMaven

Fresh off her win at the Academy Awards a few years ago, Kathryn Bigelow teamed up again with Mark Boal to produce "Zero Dark Thir...

The 70th Golden Globes aired and it's a great one filled with surprises. Compared to last year, the caliber of films competing for ...

Over 230,000 lives lost in 14 countries.  This is a survival story of one family during the 2004 tsunami.  Based on a true story, ...

Directed by Tom Hooper (" The King's Speech "), "Les Miserables" tells a story about a man, Jean Valjean (Hugh ...

Adapted from Lee Child's best-selling books, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise, " Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ") is a forme...

182 movies, under 7 minutes.  Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Long, laborious... yet fascinating.  Irish-born and British actor Daniel Day-Lewis disappears and becomes a real, living, breathing L...

Based on a novel written by Yann Martel and directed by Ang Lee, “Life of Pi” tells an unlikely, simple tale of an Indian boy stranded ...

[Note: I'm behind in movie reviews again; I was out of town for Thanksgiving and been out sick.  I was planning to review "Flight...

Directed by Sam Mendes, "Skyfall" marks 50 years of the most enduring icon in the world of espionage. Daniel Craig (" Cow...

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“Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to each other, past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we bi...

[Note: I'm behind in reviews; next is "Cloud Atlas."  Recommended!] November 2 "Flight" ( http://www.paramount.com/...

Around this time last year, one of the best films of 2011, " The Ides of March ," officially started the race for best pictur...

[Note: I was out of town and under the weather and missed " Looper ."  Hope to see it soon.  October looks like an interesting mix...

In "Arbitrage," Richard Gere is a man in deep trouble. As Robert Miller, he's the head of a hedge-fund empire and appe...

Though the summer movie season is winding down and the holiday movie season doesn't really ramp up until Thanksgiving, there are still g...

'Wilee' (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, " Inception ," " The Dark Knight Rises ") is a law school graduate who choo...

[Note: I went to see "Premium Rush" but still don't have time to do a review.  Highly recommended!] September 1 "...

When the Bourne series premiered over a decade ago, it's groundbreaking and made Matt Damon a bona fide action star.  It's a g...