Movies starring William
Cop Out is Kevin Smith's first foray into mainstream action/comedy entertainment and the first time he has directed a film he did not write. This is evident - although there are a few ribald moments to be found sprinkled throughout, the movie's hu...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Guillermo Diaz, ...
Ensemble features can be daunting, yet some filmmakers embrace the challenge, and their results reward an audience. A lot of characters are woven into the tapestry of Crash, the feature directing debut of TV veteran Paul Haggis. (Haggis was also O...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-05-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Matt Dillon, Terrence Dashon Howard, William Fichtner, ...
The Crow will forever be remembered as the final performance of budding star Brandon Lee, who died as a result of a tragic behind-the-scenes accident. However, as intense as the hype associated with Lee's death was, it could not obscure the mo...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-02-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, ...
There's a reason why so many action/comedies are failures. This is as true for more obvious misfires like The Bounty Hunter and Cop Out as it is for minor infractors like Date Night, an affable but ultimately forgettable example of the genre. In ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-04-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/ACTION
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, ...
Of the eight movies committed to celluloid by director Kenneth Branagh, five of them have been either adapted from one of Shakespeare's plays (Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost) or have made significant use of the Bard's...
U.S. Release Date: 1991-08-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, ...
The most disappointing aspect of Deadfall is its conventionality. For a thriller, it's light on surprises. After a thunderbolt of an opening sequence, the storyline unfolds in a predictable manner and the ending, despite providing a sense of closur...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Cast: Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, ...
To succeed, Deception requires viewers to be both inattentive and stupid. There's not a twist in this flimsy and moth-eaten plot that isn't both contrived and transparent and not a character who hasn't been hopelessly manipulated by the needs of th...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Marcel Langenegger
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams
Deconstructing: To write about or analyze in a way that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth, asserts that words can only refer to other words, and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert the...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Stanley Tucci, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, ...
Here's something to chew on: what's the favorite food of big, cheesy-looking special effects monsters like the one lurking in the bowels of a luxury liner in Deep Rising? The obvious answer to this question is cardboard, because that's the depth ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-01-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/ADVENTURE
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi, ...
The advance word on The Devil's Own was, to put it mildly, not good. About a month ago, Brad Pitt went public with some extremely damaging statements about how, if he hadn't possessed an iron-clad contract, he would have bailed out on the prod...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-03-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Cast: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, ...