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Grand Illusion looks back on the 20th century’s first global conflict from the perspective of a world on the brink of an even greater war. This film, which was cited by Joseph Goebbels as “Cinematic Public Enemy No. 1” when he sought to ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama/War
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Fresnay, ...
Grave of the Fireflies, a 1988 production from the famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, is perhaps the saddest animated movie ever made. As emotionally wrenching as any live-action film, Grave of the Fireflies resets expectations of ...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-06-02
MPAA Rating: "NR" (War Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Animated
Director: Isao Takahata
Cast: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, ...
Wow. If ever there was a case to be made for 3-D as a valuable cinematic tool, Alfonso Cuaron has made it. Put alongside Avatar and Hugo (with honorable mentions going to Prometheus and Life of Pi), Gravity shows the power of 3-D when applied ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Disturbing Images)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Grease is a perfect way to become immersed in the recent past. Not only was it one of the top box office draws in 1978, but it capped off a decade of '50s frenzy (that began, ironically, with the off-Broadway opening of the play Grease in 1972). ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, ...
You have to give a film maker credit for exhibiting the necessary chutzpah to take one of the most beloved classics in the English language, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and transform it into a modern-day morality play/romance. Viewers...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Bancroft, ...
The Great Gatsby is widely recognized as one of the best American novels of the 20th century, although many remember it as a book we were forced to read in high school. Thus far, there have been several attempts to convert the book into a movie (mo...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire, Carey Mulligan, ...
If this is the future for motion pictures, god help us all. A major collaboration between the Chinese film industry and Hollywood, The Great Wall features a primarily Asian cast with a few big-name American actors sprinkled in. The brainless story is...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-02-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, ...
Not since Robert Altman's The Player has a film been this relentless in its satirical attack. The Great White Hype takes the boxing industry and rips it open, displaying the rotting, putrid innards for all to see. There are times when this movie ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeff Goldblum, Damon Wayans, ...
The name of "Ziegfeld" is known to many who have never heard of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Even 80 years after the final show was produced, "The Ziegfeld Follies" remain among the best-known high class song-and-dance stage spectacles to grace Broadway. ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, ...
It's probably a safe assumption that everyone reading this review is aware of the incestuous relationship that exists between advertising and movies. It's more than a company paying a fee to have a product appear on-screen; there's cross-marketing,...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-04-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Cast: Morgan Spurlock