Movies starring Martin Sheen

Badlands (1973)

94 mins     Crime, Drama      

Terrence Malick's "Badlands" is the sort of movie which has some reviewers using words such as opus, symphony and a lot of other words which sound fancy. Now I am not saying those reviewers are wrong, each to their own and if...

Message to My Daughter (1973)

74 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Over the years I have watched a few movies which feature a parent discovering that they are going to die so set about writing letters or making tapes for the child they will never get to watch grow up, some are listed in the ...

Columbo: Lovely But Lethal (1973)

73 mins     Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie      

I'm slowly working my way through old episodes of "Columbo" as many of them get shown as individual TV movie here in the UK. Now it doesn't take long to realise that the majority of "Columbo" was built around a handful of for...

The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

129 mins     Action , Disaster, Drama, Thriller      

If you mention 70's disaster movies you're most likely to hear the names "The Towering Inferno", "The Poseidon Adventure" and even "Earthquake". One which might not instantly spring to mind is "The Cassandra Crossing" from 19...

Apocalypse Now (1979)

153 mins     Drama, War      

Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola's visually stunning foray into the Vietnam War with Martin Sheen as Captain Willard and Marlon Brando as Colonel Kurtz...

Loophole (1981)

105 mins     Adventure , Crime, Drama      

There is a scene in "Loophole" where having been hired by Mike Daniels and his partner to devise plans for a building Stephen shows up at the office to show Mike what he has come up with. It is a scene which has one purpose w...

Gandhi (1982)

191 mins     Biography, Drama      

"Gandhi" is Richard Attenborough's epic look at who Mahatma Gandhi was and what he achieved by being a man of non violence. We see through his patience and peaceful determination he achieved getting India independence. At the...

Enigma (1983)

102 mins     Drama, Thriller      

"Enigma" is what I would call an old style cold war spy thriller as we watch an agent heading to the other side of the Berlin Wall to try and steal an important scrambling device from the Russians. It has all the aspects of a...

The Dead Zone (1983)

103 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller      

The more movies I watch the more I come to realise that no one shares the exact same taste in movies as I do and so whilst I might agree with the opinions of a reviewer most of the time there will be times when we will disagr...

Wall Street (1987)

120 mins     Crime, Drama      

Having just won an Oscar for Vietnam epic "Platoon" Oliver Stone entered the world of warfare once more, although a war which is more apparent to your average guy on the street with "Wall Street". A now iconic movie which too...

Presumed Guilty (1991)

93 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

As a fan of made for TV movies especially those which are based on true stories "Presumed Guilty" is not the first movie I have watched about someone wrongly sentenced for a crime they didn't commit. As such there is shall we...

The Last P.O.W.: The Bobby Garwood Story (1992)

96 mins     TV Movie, War      

Now in truth I have no real interest in whether or not Garwood's version of events is the truth or not, my interest in watching "The Last P.O.W.: The Bobby Garwood Story" is whether or not it managed to entertain me and unfor...

Hear No Evil (1993)

97 mins     Thriller      

How to make the audience aware that a character cannot hear can be done in a variety of ways and for a split second "Hear No Evil" does it right as it shows the character of Jillian in a noisy park but when we see it from her...

One of Her Own (1994)

91 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

"One of Her Own" is one of those many made for TV movies from the 90s which were inspired by true stories but that brings with it a problem. Now I don't know how true "One of Her Own" is to what really happened but the minute...

Fortunes of War (1994)

107 mins     Action , Thriller      

In the movie dictionary under the definition of tedium I reckon "Fortunes of War" should be listed as it is one of the most mind numbing experiences I have watched. The trouble is that the entire movie is text book and as suc...

The American President (1995)

114 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

"The American President" is basically writer Aaron Sorkin and director Rob Reiner giving us a modern Frank Capra movie, a feel good romantic tale with a moral message about doing the right thing. And if that wasn't enough the...

Running Wild (1995)

94 mins     Drama      

Running Wild (1995) Brooke Shields stars as documentary producer Christine Shaye who heads to Africa to follow a conservationist as he tracks a leopard and her two cubs...

Forget Me Never (1999)

95 mins     Drama, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Forget Me Never (1999) Mia Farrow & Martin Sheen star as a husband and wife who find their marriage going through a new phase when the wife is diagnosed with early on set Alzheimer's Disease...

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

135 mins     Crime, Drama      

Quite often when you read the blurb on the back of a DVD case, what sounds like an intriguing plot featuring a star studded cast and an exceptionally talented director is going to end up being disappointing. Such is the case ...

The Departed (2006)

151 mins     Crime, Mystery, Thriller      

With "The Departed" director Martin Scorsese returns to the world of underground crime but instead of solely focusing on the life of a gangster he delivers a clever thriller about double crossing and duplicity. "The Departed"...