Movies starring Brian Cox
Red Eye belongs to the genre in which a director attempts to sustain a heightened level of suspense for long enough that the audience will not notice how incredibly stupid the screenplay is. Alfred Hitchcock was a master at this - although some of...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
To describe The Ring, two adjectives leap to mind: spooky and lame. The former refers to the tone and atmosphere, which are about as good as it gets for a ghost story. The latter refers to the storyline, which is about as poorly constructed as c...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-10-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes represents Fox's attempt to reinvigorate a dormant franchise. The new movie is technically a prequel to the 1968 Planet of the Apes; however, it ignores the various sequels and spin-offs (including a TV series) that d...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Cast: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, ...
Ultimately, it's of minor import how much of Rob Roy is based upon historical fact and how much has been embellished by the pen of screenwriter Alan Sharp. As a hero of 18th century Scotland, Robert Roy MacGregor is known to have walked through th...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-04-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, ...
It's very easy to wax poetic about the sport of baseball, and I'm not just talking "Mighty Casey has struck out." Baseball may not be the most popular sport in North America, but it has a history and mythology like no other. The giants of past er...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-03-29
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Brian Cox, ...
Running with Scissors is not a pleasant movie. The problem isn't that it's a downer, although it is, but that it's a tiresome trek into familiar territory populated by one-dimensional stereotypes. Perhaps calculating that more is better, Running ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-10-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ryan Murphy
Cast: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Cross, ...
Rushmore is one of those films that's so inconsequential that its memory threatens to fade away before the end credits have finished rolling. The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy/dram...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, ...
17 years in the making…was it worth the wait? I suppose that depends what the wait was for. Super Troopers 2, the crowdfunded sequel to 2001’s Super Troopers, appears to have been designed predominantly for those who contributed to its bud...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-04-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Cartoon Violence, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Cast: Steve Lemme, Tyler Labine, Hayes MacArthur, ...
The line between epic spectacle and overblown bore is often as unclear as it is easily crossed. So it's no surprise that Wolfgang Petersen's Troy navigates that demarcation like a drunk driver on a twisty two-lane highway. There are times when T...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-05-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Brad Pitt, Julian Glover, Saffron Burrows, ...
Consider it Free Willy with the Loch Ness Monster. It's that kind of family-friendly movie - one that focuses on the friendship between a lonely boy and an animal. In this case, the animal happens to grow up to become Nessie. The story is clever...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: FANTASY ADVENTURE
Director: Jay Russell
Cast: Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson, ...