READY PLAYER ONE (director: Steven Spielberg; screenwriters: Zak Penn/Ernest Cline/based on the book by Ernest Cline; cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski; editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn; music: Alan Silvestri; cast: Tye Sheridan…

CRUISE, THE director: Bennett Miller; cinematographer: Bennett Miller; editor: Michael Levine; cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch; Runtime: 76; Artisan Entertainment; 1998) "The documentary works so well because Speed's for real..."( Reviewed…

REBEL IN THE RYE (director/writer: Danny Strong; screenwriter: from the bio "J.D. Salinger: A Life" by Kenneth Slawenski; cinematographer: Kramer Morgenthau; editor: Joseph Krings; music: Bear McCreary; cast: Nicholas Hoult…

  DADDY LONGLEGS (aka: GO GET SOME ROSEMARY) (director/writer: Josh and Benny Safdie; cinematographers: Brett Jutkiewicz/Josh Safdie; editors: Josh and Benny Safdie/Brett Jutkiewicz/Ronald Bronstein; cast: Ronald Bronstein (Lenny), Sage Ranaldo…

RED BEARD (AKAHIGE) (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriters: Masato Ide/Ryuzo Kikushima/Hideo Oguni/Shugoro Yamamoto from the novel "Akahige shinryotan" by Shugoro Yamamoto; cinematographers: Asaichi Nakai/Takao Saito; music: Masaru Sato; cast: Toshiro Mifune…

THE DARK (director: Craig Pryce; screenwriter: Robert Cooper; cinematographer: Michael Storey; editor: Michael Todd; music: Alun Davies/Paul Zaza/Guy Zerafa; cast: Stephen McHattie(Dr. Gary "Hunter" Henderson), Neve Campbell (Deputy Jesse Donovan),…

RED HOT TIRES (director: D. Ross Lederman; screenwriters: Dore Schary/story and screenplay Tristram Tucker; cinematographer: Arthur Todd; editor: Frank Magee; music: Leo Forbstein; cast: Lyle Talbot (Wally Storm), Mary Astor…

THE DARK TOWER (director: John Harlow; screenwriters: based on the play by George S. Kaufman & Alexander Woollcott/Reginald Purdell/Brock Williams; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Terence Fisher; music: Jack Beaver; cast:…

RED RIVER (director: Howard Hawks/Arthur Rosson; screenwriter: Borden Chase/story the "Chisolm Trail" by Charles Schnee; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Christian Nyby; music: Dimitri Tiomkin; cast: John Wayne (Thomas Dunson), Montgomery…

THE DAY THE SUN TURNED COLD (TIAN GUO NI ZI) (director/writer: Yim Ho; screenwriter: Hing Dong Wong; cinematographer: Hou Yong ; editor: Wong Yee-shun; music: Yoshihide Ohtomo; cast: Gaowa Siqin…