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Bonkers. That’s one way to describe the stylistic, chaotic splurge of blood, gore, and action that characterizes Mortiz Mohr’s feature debut, Boy Kills World. A comedy that leans heavily into the grand guignol before imbibing deeply from a pot...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Moritz Mohr
Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Andrew Koji, Sharlto Copley, ...
This is a classic example of a novel being condensed and edited to fit within the limited time allowed for a screen adaptation. The 2008 motion picture adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited clocks in at 135 minutes - not short, to be s...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-08-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Julian Jarrold
Cast: Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Ben Whishaw, ...
At some point, Universal Pictures apparently recognized that the fourth Bridget Jones chapter lacks an audience. As a result, instead of opening it in U.S. theaters, where it likely would have sunk without a trace, they pivoted and dumped it onto ...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-02-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, ...
Bridget Jones' Diary was an unexpected delight: a witty, enjoyable trifle that touched the heart while tickling the funny bone. Sadly, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason isn't anywhere close to being that good. This has the feel of a movie that e...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-11-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Beeban Kidron
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, ...
Brothers is arguably the most successful remake of a foreign film since Martin Scorsese reworked Infernal Affairs into The Departed and won the Oscar. By remaining rigorously faithful to Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish feature, Brodre, screenwriter Dav...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, ...
Candy is an Australian film that also offers a dose of familiarity. It's one of those drugs-are-hell movies that follows the time-tested path of watching two generally likable characters embark upon the road to self-destruction that results when re...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Drugs, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Neil Armfield
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush
As the bean counters toil, Eustace waits. So does Jill. And Polly and Digory, too. Walden Media has optioned all seven of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia books, but whether the other six (or, more likely, five - since The Horse and His Boy seem...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cast: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, ...
Consider Cinderella Man to be a Depression era Rocky. While that may at first seem like a glib way to describe Ron Howard's rags-to-riches boxing drama, a careful examination of the storyline reveals numerous similarities between this drama and Sy...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-06-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Connor Price, ...
Contact is likely to change a lot of perceptions -- not only about the role of humankind in the universe, but about what special effects can do for a movie when they're used in the service of a story, rather than the other way around. Contact...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-07-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, ...
On the surface, Crazy Rich Asians and Sex and the City couldn’t be more different but, if you dig deep enough into their respective DNA’s, there’s a common thread: the love of conspicuous consumption. Heard the term “First World probl...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-08-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, ...