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In Roger Michell's "Changing Lanes" (2002), anger is a destructive force that flies dangerously out-of-control.  In "Punch-Drunk Love" (2002), director Paul Thomas Anderson pushes Adam Sandler's gentle on-screen persona to a point where he has him punching walls and shattering glass doors .  Experts are quick to point out that anger has it's place and should be respected, managed and embrace.    But when anger goes unfettered it can be a spiral of one destructive scenario after another - not unlike the brawl  that occurred during a Toronto screening of "Punch-Drunk Love".  read more...

In Saturday Night at the Movie’s continual efforts to provide our viewers with the best possible experience on-air and online we have started adding something new to our repertoire: streaming movies. Click through to find an up-to-date list of all the films currently available, with durations, synopses, as well as links to the movies and the relating The Interviews episodes.

There's a reason we're showing Gloria (1980) and London to Brighton (2006)  a week before Mother's Day and not on the day itself.  Both films deal with childless women who are unexpectedly saddled with a young charge.   But their struggle is less about be motherly and more about being a protector.  Traditionally a male role? Odd because when men are singled out as the sudden unintentional parent it's the maternal responsibilities that are played up  - and usually for laughs.  When movies reverse traditional roles are they really challenging our expectations or simply toying with the same old stereotypes?

Mentors are good, right?  They take us under their wing and guide us along a path towards success.  That's very much the case with our first film, "Music of the Heart" where Roberta Guaspari (Meryl Streep) who mentors under-privelaged school kids away from the streets and into a better life.  You'll feel good after "Music of the Heart".  But our second film "In The Company of Men" is a very different story.   And chances are you are going to write in and let us know just how you feel.  All we ask is that before you do, read this...