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For the dead, death is a permanent state, its precise composition impossible to determine by anyone able to discuss it. What lies on the other side is something no one can assert with surety. We can believe, but that's another thing. For the living, ...
The Affair is a tale of thwarted romance that spans decades. It aims to be an epic saga illustrating how war, governmental policy, cultural shifts, and geography place invisible barriers that keep two lovers apart for a generation during the m...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-03-05
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Julius Sevcik
Cast: Hanna Alstrom, Carice van Houten, Claes Bang, ...
Argo proudly bears the "based on a true story" label, and this is one occasion when the caption is important to how the movie is perceived. Often, this is a meaningless citation but, when documenting historical events such as the ones depicted here...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, ...
It has been said that Alzheimer's is the only "major" terminal condition to exact a greater toll on the family than the victim. Compared to cancer (for example), Alzheimer's offers a relatively gentle journey into oblivion for the patient, a gradu...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, ...
Watching Black Narcissus without an awareness of the year in which it was made might result in one concluding that it was the product of the 1960s. Many aspects of the production – from the storyline’s sexual undertones to the lush technic...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, ...
In the autumn of 1998, New Line Cinema opened Pleasantville, a thoroughly delightful fantasy about a couple of modern-day kids thrown back in time to a world of wholesome family values where everything is (literally) black and white. Now, less tha...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-02-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ROMANCE
Director: Hugh Wilson
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, ...
The Brady Bunch Movie, the natural culmination of a '90s revisionist Brady fad, is part homage and part parody. It takes the inimitable clan of eight and time-transports them, '70s attitudes and dress style intact, into 1995. Instead of being reg...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-02-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Innuendo)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Shelly Long, Gary Cole, Christine Taylor, ...
Like a dog to its vomit, I keep coming back to rants about the same pet peeves. Maybe it's because I spend so little time at general admission multiplex movies, but it's tough to surpress a wince of outrage every time a commercial appears on screen...
Brokeback Mountain is going to win the Best Picture Oscar. This is a bigger lock than Titanic or The Return of the King. It's pointless to ask whether it deserves the recognition - that's not what Oscar victories (or nominations, for that matter) ...
In essence, Control is a standard order biopic of a tormented artist. What makes the film interesting, if not unique, is the style in which director Anton Corbijn has elected to present it. Rather than approaching the picture with the vivid psych...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Anton Corbijn
Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Joe Anderson, ...