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This Is Spinal Tap

Good comedy stands the test of time. Two of the funniest movies I recall seeing arrived in theaters during the early 1980s. One, Airplane, a spoof of the Airport series (and disaster movies in general), has withered on the vine of changing times....

Run Time: 1:22
U.S. Release Date: 1984-03-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, ...

When I'm asked if I recommend either United 93 or World Trade Center, I begin my response as follows: "If you can handle a movie about 9/11..." The qualifier is not meant to be sarcastic or condescending. It is not intended as a put-down. There are...

Thousand Acres, A

When viewing a melodrama like A Thousand Acres, it's easy to label it as a "chick flick" or a "tearjerker." However, such a facile categorization would do the movie a disservice, since it possesses a layer of depth that most films of this sort...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Cast: Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...
Three Colors: Blue

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity. We wanted to show what these well-known historical notions mean to us today, who already possess liberty, who are already equal, and for whom fraternity is a common ideal. Therefore, in Blue, libe...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel, ...
Three Colors: Red

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity... We looked very closely at these three ideas, how they functioned in everyday life, but from an individual's point of view. These ideals are contradictory with human nature. When you deal with th...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, ...
Three Colors: White

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity... We looked very closely at these three ideas, how they functioned in everyday life, but from an individual's point of view. These ideals are contradictory with human nature. When you deal with th...

Run Time: 1:32
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situation, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, ...
Three Kings

Courage Under Fire was the first American movie about the Gulf War. Since then, there haven't been many others. David O. Russell's Three Kings becomes one of only a few mainstream efforts to venture into this underpopulated cinematic territory. ...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 1999-10-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/ADVENTURE
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, ...
Throne of Blood

Throughout his legendary career, Akira Kurosawa showed an affinity for the works of William Shakespeare. Three of his films in particular – The Bad Sleep Well, Throne of Blood, and Ran – owe a debt to The Bard even though not a line of Shakesp...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, ...
Thunderball

By the time Thunderball, the fourth in the "official" James Bond film canon, was released, the "Bond Formula" had already been perfected. It goes something like this: take the suave 007 (always impeccably dressed and ready with a witty one-l...

Run Time: 2:13
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, ...

There's nothing quite like a U.K. crime thriller to get the blood flowing. They're a little different than U.S. pictures from the same genre - grimmer and grittier, usually. Less romanticizing of things. More brutal. More bloody. This year's ...