5 Miles to Midnight (1963) starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins is a thrilling movie which will take you down the road of deception and send chills down your spine. A beautiful Italian woman Lisa, played by Sohia Loren, marries an American man, Robert (Anthony Perkins) and they live in France. The American Lisa has married is not the prince in shining armor as she thought. He is however, a domineering and insanely jealous man, a recipe...

How far will a man go to defend his wife and home? This is the theme of a highly controversial classic film, Straw Dogs (1971). Dustin Hoffman plays a pacifistic math professor who is forced into a violent confrontation when his wife Amy is raped by 2 local losers. The main theme of the movie is how a man, who is peaceful in every sense, can wake up the sleeping violent nature inside if provoked. Although the movie is thought provoking, it...

The Honeymoon killers, (1970) a film done in docudrama form is chilling, disturbing, unique, and unforgettable. I wanted to say funny, but I really can’t because the story is true. But you can’t help finding dark comedy in this horrible story. The story is of a couple who were serial killers back in the 40’s known as the “The Lonely Heart Killers.” Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) an obese nurse from Alabama and a Spanish immigrant,...

Together Brothers (1974) an obscure, but good movie, with young inexperienced actors is worth your while to watch. The movie directed by William Graham, with an awesome musical score by Barry White and The Love Unlimited Orchestra is a touching and all too real story of the black experience in America. When a much loved police officer called Mr. Kool by the neighborhood people is horribly murdered, a 15-year-old gang leader, HJ (Ahmed...

I remember being a kid in school and watching Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 French short, “The Red Balloon.” Ah, I can still hear the projector reeling in magic into my heart. If you didn’t go to school back in the sixties and seventies you probably don’t even know what I am talking about. The film tells a story of a little boy who becomes friends with a balloon, trains it, and the balloon takes on a life of its own. It...

I woke up this morning to the sad news of Charlton Heston’s passing. I thought about all the movies I’ve seen with him and picked out my absolute favorite. I remember when I first saw “The Planet of the Apes,” (1968) and the scene which impress me most. In the movie George Taylor the astronaut (Charlton Heston) lands on earth years into the future to find that man was the beast and apes were the rulers. And I remember how angry...