For their next pairing together, Doris Day and Rock Hudson‘s third and final team up moved away from the sex comedy antics of the last two to make them into a long married couple instead, Rock’s highly strung character owing to a little mix-up now believing he’s only got a short time left. 

In the early going Hudson really gets a lot out playing up the hypochondriac side well; pretty much every sitcom has done a premise like this at…

Sissy Spacek stars as country icon Loretta Lynn in Michael Apted’s period biopic, which charts the Kentucky-born singer’s rags-to-riches story over her early career, developing success on the circuit while juggling both her family and marriage to domineering husband Doolittle (Tommy Lee Jones).

Spacek won an Oscar for her work, and gives a performance that really captures Lynn‘s journey here from shy country girl to mega successful superstar, one that goes for much more insular than standard big “Oscar bait…

I really love Cat Ballou; it’s just got such a fun, irreverent energy, taking something that easily could’ve been played straight and tilting it just enough into something even more outsized, a western comedy with one of Jane Fonda’s first ever breakout roles.  

She’s great here, probably the “straightest“ role in the film done genuinely enough to sell Cat’s journey from city girl to outlaw taking the lead herself. It’s a performance that still feels in on the joke,…

Fresh off the success of Barbie, Ryan Gosling teamed up with David Leitch for a blockbuster that sets itself up as a bit of a throwback, the 80s show working a loose jumping off point for the sort of practical-driven, stunt-heavy action comedy that by now feels a lot rarer to make it to the big screen. 

By now, Gosling is pretty much playing on the stoic, brooding image he made his name with, and really leans into the hapless, world-weary…

When investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is offered the gift of a mysterious game, a chain of events is set off that sends his life into a tailspin, in David Fincher’s psychological thriller co-starring Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat and Carroll Baker.

There are some really gripping moments, the plot navigating through numerous twists and turns in a surprising way, making it feel unpredictable and engaging. Fincher shoots with an almost noirish edge, capturing…

The Final Reckoning returns to cap off the story Dead Reckoning left in the air, wrangling all the various loose threads to finish not only this two-parter, but potentially the MI series as a whole; with Tom Cruise back in the driver’s seat (often literally), this is a film that consciously tries to build on everything that came before it, by this point a well oiled machine of a franchise run by people who all really know how to put…