Movies starring Max
Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of... Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen eyed, sword in han...
U.S. Release Date: 1982-05-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: John Milius
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, ...
Rarely has the question "What the hell?" been more appropriate. An uneven amalgamation of the brilliant and the preposterous, Constantine left me by turns intrigued, confused, and wary. The recipe calls for some ingredients that are compelling, o...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-02-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LeBeouf, ...
Upon viewing the completed version of this film, cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose story it tells, informed director Terry Zwigoff, "After I saw it I had to go for a walk in the woods, just to clear my head. I took my favorite hat off, this hat that ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Cast: Robert Crumb, Charles Crumb, Maxxon Crumb, ...
Not since Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Killing has a motion picture about capital punishment been so disturbing and compelling. Dead Man Walking has appropriated a controversial subject by giving pain and personality to both sides of t...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-01-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tim Robbins
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Raymond J. Barry, ...
Whether by coincidence or design, the three week period from August 20 through September 10 has been dominated over the last five years by Jason Statham. In 2004, there was Cellular. In 2005, there was Transporter 2. The 2006 entry was Crank, fo...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, ...
Another summer, another double-dip of disaster dramas. This time around, instead of volcanoes, it's comets. The films in question, Mimi Leder's Deep Impact and Michael Bay's Armageddon, are separated by two months, so the first should have a ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-05-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Mimi Leder
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, ...
Released in 1971, Diamonds Are Forever was Sean Connery's final "official" turn as James Bond (although he eventually starred in Never Say Never Again, 1983's Thunderball remake). After skipping On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Connery was lure...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St. John, ...
While watching Disney's Dinosaur, with all of its incredibly rendered creatures and seamless blending of animated objects with real backgrounds, a question occurred to me: In movies like this, can the writing keep pace with the technology? Films ...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-05-19
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Cast: (voices) .B. Sweeney, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, ...
Disconnect, Henry Alex Rubin's meditation on how we communicate in the age of electronics and social media, is a deeply flawed motion picture containing moments of brilliance that illustrate its strong thematic content. A triptych of tales connecte...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Cast: Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, ...
For many people, there is no hell more unimaginable than having a healthy, active mind trapped in a paralyzed husk of a body. Some of those in this situation seek a quick end to their misery (as was the case with Ramon Sampedro, whose tale was dra...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-30
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julian Schnabel
Cast: Mathiew Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, ...