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Summer box office, "Star Trek: Discovery", San Diego Comic-con

Fictional Frontiers/Berardinelli podcasts for September 6 & October 5, 2017.

Polina

Polina is mesmerizing. Part of that is because perhaps 50% of the scenes are dance-related, choreographed by co-director Angelin Preljocaj. Another part is because the lead, Anastasia Shevtsova (making her acting debut), is a classically-trai...

Run Time: 1:48
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-22
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Adult Themes, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Valerie Muller, Angelin Preljocaj
Cast: Anastasia Shevtsova, Veronika Zhovnytska, Juliette Binoche, ...
Post, The

If one looks back at U.S. history during the 1970s, the importance of The Washington Post immediately becomes clear. The paper, which began the decade as just another local daily with little national prominence, concluded it as an important b...

Run Time: 1:51
U.S. Release Date: 2017-12-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Bob Odenkirk, ...
Postman, The

There are two ways that you can look at Kevin Costner's The Postman (not to be confused with the former Oscar contender of the same name, starring Massimo Troisi). The first is that it's a muddled but occasionally-brilliant lampoon of epic motio...

Run Time: 2:57
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, ...
Poughkeepsie Tapes, The

This review contains spoilers.  The Poughkeepsie Tapes might pass muster as a curiosity if it was shorter. The film successfully captures the look and feel of those exploitative cable TV true crime stories, albeit with more explicit im...

Run Time: 1:26
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-07-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Ben Messmer, Stacy Chbosky, Ivar Brogger, ...
Premonition

Time travel movies meddle with paradoxes and causality - these things lie at the core of their essential fascination. The difference between a good time travel movie and a bad one often rests with one simple quality: Having established a set of "...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Mennan Yapo
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Shyann McClure, ...
Pride

Pride is one of those generic inspirational sports movies that has been cobbled together from spare parts left to rust on Hollywood's shelf of clichés and stereotypes. Take a little '70s racism, add the guidance of a strong coach, throw in minor ...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Sunu Gonera
Cast: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Kimberly Elise, ...
Primeval

What a croc! Unsolicited advice to filmmakers: When making a monster movie, do not attempt to sell said film as a picture about a serial killer. Second piece of unsolicited advice to filmmakers: When making a monster movie, keep the focus on the...

Run Time: 1.34
U.S. Release Date: 2007-01-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Michael Katleman
Cast: Dominic Purcell, Brooke Langton, Orlando Jones, ...
Princess Bride, The

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." When William Goldman wrote those words, he did not intend for them to become a fragment of '80s pop culture. When Mandy Patinkin spoke those words, he didn't expect his every i...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: 1987-09-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Wallace Shawn, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, ...