Our “Film Odyssey” closes with the 2001 Best Picture winner, the rare biopic with a massive plot twist stuck in the middle.
Category Archives: Ron Howard
APOLLO 13 (1995)
A very accurate, well-made docudrama about an actual space emergency, it all feels a bit airless to me (sorry).
WILLOW (1988)
A mostly forgettable High Fantasy romp, with Warwick Davis playing a literal little guy fighting an evil sorceress.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
Before “Star Wars,” George Lucas made this ancestor of a million teenager movies.