Movies starring Pat
Sometimes even a high profile movie can surprise you. Take Grown Ups, for example. Based on the advance promotional material, this didn't look like the kind of production likely to end Adam Sandler's streak of unremarkable star vehicles (Funny Pe...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, ...
This is the sequel Halloween fans have been awaiting for four decades. With John Carpenter whispering in his ear (the original director returned in an “advisory” capacity and as co-composer), David Gordon Green has taken the series back to...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Jefferson Hall, Rhian Rees, ...
If one discounts Halloween III, it has taken twelve movies, four timelines, and nearly 45 years to get to this point. If there was such at thing as “truth in advertising” in movie titles, this would be the last bow of one of movie-dom’s long...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-10-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, ...
When the original Halloween reached screens in 1978, director John Carpenter intended for it to be a one-off project. However, the film's unexpected financial success paved the road for Halloween II, an inferior sequel that tied up most of the loo...
U.S. Release Date: 1988-10-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Dwight H. Little
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, ...
The following words, spoken by Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) in the 1978 Halloween regarding his patient, Michael Myers, loom large over the 2021 sequel, Halloween Kills: "I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven try...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers, ...
Note to readers: this review contains spoilers. If you care, come back and read the review after you have endured the torture that is Halloween: Resurrection. There are three levels of quality in the horror genre, all of which are represented in...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-07-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Sean Patrick Thomas, Thomas Ian Nicholas, ...
The familiar fairy tales we were weaned on aren't good enough any more. First, Shrek playfully toyed with some of our old friends by having them interact in atypical ways with a big, green ogre. Then along came last year's Hoodwinked, which refus...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-01-05
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Paul J. Bolger
Cast: (voices) Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, ...
Hard Candy is the kind of uncompromising independent motion picture that is likely to foster ambivalence in a significant portion of its audience. Admittedly, the film doesn't stand up well to a careful postmortem (many psychological thrillers don...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: David Slade
Cast: Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay exists because it was cheap to make and has a devoted core audience, not because its predecessor, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, was a blockbuster. The filmmakers, understanding what made the first...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Cast: Kal Penn, John Cho, Neil Patrick Harris, ...
I suppose High Art is as good a name as any for this pretentious melodrama, an often-diverting but ultimately pointless attempt to wed intellectual twaddle with a soap-opera-ish lesbian romance. Lisa Cholodenko's film, which had its world premiere...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson, ...