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In the past, I always wrote an end-of-the-year commentary called "Rewinding XXXX - The Year in Movies." This year, the more appropriate place for those thoughts is here. Rather than lumping everything together into one mega-long ReelThought on ...
Note: There are minor spoilers throughout and final paragraph contains a somewhat more substantive, but oblique, spoiler. The "danger area" for the latter is marked. As Let the Right One In opens in a suburb of Stockholm during the 1980s, 12-ye...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR/DRAMA
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson
How to describe Steven Soderbergh’s Let Them All Talk? The second major movie in 25 years set almost entirely aboard an ocean liner making transatlantic crossing? An Agatha Christie mystery without the mystery? An opportunity to remember how...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-12-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Meryl Streep, Dianne Wiest, Candice Bergen, ...
After what happened after my previous column (the one about Michael Moore), I decided to write about something nice and safe... like the weather. Unfortunately, after this weekend, there's nothing nice or safe about the weather. Normally, I like ...
It took a while for Groundhog Day to start spawning knock-offs but, once it did, the déjà vu-inspired movies turned from a trickle to a torrent. There have been sci-fi variants (Edge of Tomorrow), Blumhouse horror fests (Happy Death Day), an...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-02-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Fantasy/Romantic Comedy
Director: Ian Samuels
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Kyle Allen
It's always the case that when a director does something that attracts notice (or, in some cases, notoriety), his or her next project is awaited with a degree of anticipation. This is the case with Noah Baumbach, whose The Squid and the Whale, whi...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Noah Baumbach
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...
The gold standard for inspirational teenage sports movies is unquestionably Hoosiers and, although McFarland USA falls short of the mark set by the iconic '80s film, it comes closer than most would expect. The reason is simple: McFarland USA, lik...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-20
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Niki Caro
Cast: Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Elsie Fisher, ...
And now for something completely different... Originally released in New Zealand during 1989, Peter Jackson's cult hit Meet the Feebles is only now receiving its official United States "tour", opening for short runs in select art houses acro...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: (voices) Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow, ...
I am not a fan of Meet the Parents, the 2000 film that introduced Ben Stiller to the joys of having an ex-CIA agent as a potential father-in-law. The movie is too much like a sit-com, although, as a counterbalance, it offers several big laughs. Me...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, ...
Last year, Chris Rock. This year, Jon Stewart. Next year, who knows? (I'm still hoping for John Cleese.) There's prestige in hosting the Oscars, that's for sure. But once you've done it once, what's the incentive to return? For a while, the ...