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I have no idea why the people who decide such matters have elected to release this perfect Valentine's Day movie in the middle of January. Perhaps it's counter-programming for Cloverfield. Whatever the case, 27 Dresses is an illustration of what ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-01-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, ...
Another week, another disappointing summer sequel. So it goes… In actuality, the screenplay for 28 Weeks Later isn't all that bad. Sure, it's repetitious and much of it has been regurgitated from 2003's 28 Days Later, but it contains some in...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-05-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR/THRILLER
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Catherine McCormack, ...
The A-Team represents the motion picture industry's male-oriented answer to such franchises as Sex and the City and Twilight. To combat the new wave of estrogen-powered movies, Fox has fallen back on a tried-but-true formula: the adrenaline-and-te...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, ...
Nearly 150 years after his assassination, Abraham Lincoln is getting his due from Hollywood. 2012 sees the release of three movies featuring the 16th President front-and-center. The biggest of these is Steven Spielberg's long-awaited bio-pic, due t...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-06-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR/ACTION
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, ...
Spoilers follow! James Cameron is widely viewed as being one of the most difficult and demanding directors, due in large part to the powerful streak of perfectionism that defines his filmmaking. Cameron's most difficult and contentious shoot to...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-08-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Ed Harris, Capt. Kidd Brewer Jr., Kimberly Scott, ...
The autumn movie season has a history of hosting impressive, thought-based science fiction movies. To a list that includes Gravity, Interstellar, Arrival, and The Martian, add Ad Astra, a film that uses space exploration as a means to look inw...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-09-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: James Gray
Cast: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, ...
When Alien was first released during the summer movie season of 1979, science fiction films were all the rage. The trend had been started two years earlier with the unexpected box office success of Star Wars, and, by 1979, anything even remotely co...
U.S. Release Date: 1979-05-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/HORROR
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, ...
Way to go Fox. Way to kill off a franchise where the first two installments were among the best around. Sadly, as bad as Alien 3 is – and it’s really bad – it’s only the beginning of a process. Few films that began with episodes as grea...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-05-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Gore, Sexual Content)
Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, ...
Alien Nation arrived during a period when science fiction-themed action movies were all the rage. All sorts of variations on familiar themes were tried. Some, like James Cameron’s Aliens, were successful. Others, like Alien Nation, left some...
U.S. Release Date: 1988-10-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Director: Graham Baker
Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, ...
If nothing else, Alien Resurrection emphasizes something that became apparent five years ago with Alien 3 -- the series hasn't only run out of steam, it's getting thin on new ideas. No one seems willing to take any chances with the franchise, ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, ...