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All About Eve possesses one of the best screenplays ever to grace the silver screen. It also has one of the best performances by an actress in the history of Hollywood features. For his writing, Joseph Mankiewicz was honored by the Academy of Moti...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, ...
The Pedro Almodovar of the late 1990s is not the same director who once engaged audiences with his kinky and offbeat views of sex and relationships. This new, kinder, gentler Almodovar is more concerned about conventional film elements like plot a...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Cast: Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorín, Marisa Paredes, ...
At some point, Universal Pictures apparently recognized that the fourth Bridget Jones chapter lacks an audience. As a result, instead of opening it in U.S. theaters, where it likely would have sunk without a trace, they pivoted and dumped it onto ...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-02-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, ...
Did You Hear about the Morgans? Yes and, to be perfectly frank, I wish I had been spared the experience. I'm gullible. I'll buy just about any premise Hollywood is selling, provided it is sold well. Did You Hear about the Morgans? proves thes...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Marc Lawrence
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, ...
Whether as a result of coincidence or intent, the COVID pandemic has issued in a new era of motion picture musicals. Not since mid-20th century, when Musicals were perennially the biggest earners, has the genre been this popular. Everybody’s...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-09-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: Musical/Drama
Director: Jonathan Butterell
Cast: Max Harwood, Lauren Patel, Richard E. Grant, ...
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 ...
In the immortal words of Strother Martin, "What we've got here is… failure to communicate." The truth of that statement lies at the heart of Ira Sachs' Married Life, a movie about how people in a marriage communicate or, just as often, fail to do...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-03-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ira Sachs
Cast: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, ...
For a filmmaker like Joss Whedon, known world-wide for playing with huge budgets in genre entertainment, the choice to bring to the screen one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies using a low-budget, "experimental" style might seem an odd choice....
U.S. Release Date: 2013-06-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, ...
Much Ado about Nothing is Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's better-known comedies. Centered around two romances - Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), and Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thomps...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-05-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Nudity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, ...