Movies with cinematographer Roger Pratt
The superheroes of DC Comics have been very good to Warner Brothers. In 1978, Superman became a major motion picture event, packing theaters and resulting in a franchise that generated three sequels before collapsing under the weight of bad writin...
U.S. Release Date: 1989-06-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, ...
Terry Gilliam's Brazil is one of those films whose enduring reputation is based at least in part on events surrounding its stormy distribution history. Taken at face value, Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Peter Vaughan, ...
Oliver Parker has made a career out of adapting Oscar Wilde, with versions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest already on video store shelves. For his latest, Parker has turned his attention to what may be Wilde's most famous no...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: HORROR/DRAMA
Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Ben Chaplin, ...
There's no question that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is designed more for fans of the book than for those who have never picked up a J.K. Rowling tome. However, while that makes sense financially (after all, the target audience represe...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-11-15
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Felton, Alan Rickman, ...
The best thing to happen to the Harry Potter movie franchise was for journeyman director Chris Columbus to step down. After turning out adequate adaptations of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber o...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-11-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Timothy Spall, Ralph Fiennes, ...
With a premise as potentially rewarding as that of Inkheart, one can be forgiven for being a little disappointed by the final result. When placed alongside other PG-rated fantasy adventure tales, this one struggles to capture the imagination. Par...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/FANTASY
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Hope Bennett, Paul Bettany, ...
In many ways, The Karate Kid is the perfect remake: faithful to the source material in large part yet offering enough nuanced differences to allow it to stand on its own. The problem with the film is that that story, hackneyed when it first made i...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, ...
"In the last 20, 30 years, [Frankenstein has] been claimed by a whole generation of academics and scholars as a seminal piece of literature of that time. [It's] something which now, post-Freud, they feel reveals so many observations about family l...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/HORROR
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, ...
Serene. Beautiful. Untouchable. All of those words can be used to describe the subject of Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known painting, "The Mona Lisa." And, while almost everyone knows what she looks like, no one knows her story. Her life is a bla...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, ...
"What was [Joy] to me? She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress; but at the same time all ...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-12-29
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, ...