Drama

1988

R

Plot: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie Bird Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parkers musical genius, but also devotes ample time to th ...

Action

1990

PG13

Plot: The cant-miss teaming of Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn is squandered on a clumsy, illogical romantic melodrama. Running across her old boyfriend Gibson at a Wisconsin gas station, Hawn is astounded that h ...

Mystery

1969

PG

Plot: This trend-setting thriller put its director, Dario Argento, on the international map and began a flood of imitative mystery-horror hybrids which dominated Italian genre output in the early 1970s. Tony ...

Music [nf]

1987

Plot: One year before the Clint Eastwood-directed Bird, Gary Giddins likewise covered the life and work of jazz great Charlie Bird Parker in this absorbing documentary. Rare filmclips of Parker ...

1999

NR

Plot: Having inherited the warhorse stage piece Bird of Paradise from his predecessor William LeBaron, RKO Radio production chief David O. Selznick opted to do the property up brown, hoping to ...