Movies starring Peter
When Disney mothballed traditional animation in 2004 following a series of disappointing box office underperformers, the blame was placed upon changing tastes - that viewers preferred the more eye-popping style of computer-generated images to the "...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-11
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast: (voices) Anika Noni Rose, Terrence Howard, Oprah Winfrey, ...
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." When William Goldman wrote those words, he did not intend for them to become a fragment of '80s pop culture. When Mandy Patinkin spoke those words, he didn't expect his every i...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-09-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/COMEDY
Director: Rob Reiner
Cast: Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Mel Smith, ...
Brad Bird may be one of the few animated filmmakers working today who understands what the concept of a "family film" means. It's something that offers material to viewers of all ages and doesn't lose one group by catering too strongly to another....
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-29
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: (voices) Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, ...
There are two commonly heard sayings about power. The first, "With great power comes great responsibility," sounds almost sanctimonious but represents the credo by which we expect heroic figures (such as policemen) to live. The second, "Power cor...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Robert Sheehan, John Henshaw, ...
The middle segment of the Red Riding trilogy, Red Riding: 1980, represents the best of the three films - a taut, bleak perspective of the power of pervasive corruption. By the end of this movie, it becomes clear that the rot within the Yorkshire p...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Paddy Considine, Maxine Peake, Tony Pitts, ...
Red Riding: 1983 brings the Red Riding trilogy to a close and, if the five-hour saga doesn't precisely conclude with a proverbial "bang," neither does it go out with a whimper. The third movie represents the middle ground between the promising-but...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: David Morrissey, Mark Addy, Jim Carter, ...
Much as I might like to, I cannot heap praise upon director Gavin Hood's Rendition, a political thriller with aspirations of being so much more that it is. The film treads into the minefield of debate that exists surrounding the question of Constit...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, ...
Robocop was among the biggest surprises of 1987 - a sci-fi action film with a silly title that turned out to be a biting satire of big business practices. A tribute to the perspicacity and skill of director Paul Verhoeven, Robocop is capable of sa...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-07-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ACTION
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, ...
Nearly a half-century after the theatrical debut of Jim Sharman’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the movie at the heart of the cult experience has been reduced to near-irrelevance. Devotees attend midnight screenings not because they want to...
U.S. Release Date: 1975-09-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Musical/Horror
Director: Jim Sharman
Cast: Tim Curry, Meatloaf, Peter Hinwood, ...
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…” Perhaps those words don’t mean as much as they did a couple of decades ago but they still have the capacity to raise goose bumps. And, although Rogue One, the first so-called &ldqu...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-12-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Felicity Jones, Peter Cushing, Jimmy Smits, ...