Contributor: Steven Isaac

A quarter of the world’s population looked to England for leadership before WWII. But its own people doubted the competence of their stammering king.

“Erin Brockovich” presents moviegoers with the true story of a woman who transcends her surroundings, takes on the big dogs, and wins.

Mandy Moore stars as a Christian teenager who faces down fear, loneliness and loss while searching for ‘her miracle.’

Evan Rachel Wood is Diana before the school shooting. Uma Thurman is Diana 15 years after. Together they show her making the many choices that form her.

Disenchanted with her role as a maid, Amy Adams gets into a life of crime … scene cleanup in this indie-style film from the producers of ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’

Owen is a 12-year-old pariah who’s developing a thirst for vengeance and violence. Abby, a vampire who has “been 12 for a very long time,” is tenderly grooming him to be her accomplice.

An unlikely superhero to say the least, Hellboy was spawned a decade ago in the frenetically colorful pages of a Dark Horse Comic.

‘The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. … It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you to the truth.’

It doesn’t take much to make a movie franchise these days. Sometimes the connection between films can be as tenuous as … a mask.

Sam lives alone. He works at a Starbucks. And his mental capacity is that of a 7-year-old. Sam is also a father.

‘Proof’ takes moviegoers not into a whirlpool of mental illness seemingly brought about by genius, but rather into the crevasses that so often form in the middle of relationships.

Based on Janet Finch’s best-selling novel, this film loses itself in one girl’s desperate journey through adolescence, foster homes and abuse.

Bumbling adventure includes ravenous cheese curls and cute boulders in this latest big-screen ‘Veggie’ movie.

Time travel is becoming something of a fall-back gag for Austin Powers. This time the year is 1975…

‘The Fast and the Furious’ gets funny with Queen Latifah behind the wheel. That should have been the tagline. But what most teens are going to remember about this movie isn’t Latifah’s punishing wit. …