Movies with cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt
With Batman and Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film, which places yet another actor in the batsuit, has all the necessary hallmarks of a sorry sequel...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-06-20
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Clooney, John Glover, Elle Macpherson, ...
It's lighter, brighter, funnier, faster-paced, and a whole lot more colorful than before. There's a new actor underneath the cape, a new girlfriend on his arm, and a new partner by his side. The director is different and the composer has changed....
U.S. Release Date: 1995-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, ...
It's a curious thing. Whenever this much talent is assembled for a motion picture, the result inevitably seems to be a letdown. And to say that Charlie Wilson's War is topheavy with talent is to understate the matter. The cast features three Osc...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julia Roberts, ...
If you pay attention to Hollywood's romantic comedies, the interaction between men and women is all about love and companionship. If you instead rely upon the philosophy of Closer, it's all about power. Closer starts like a nice romantic drama, w...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-12-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mike Nichols
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, ...
2014 has already seen one straightforward, largely unimaginative bio-pic of a '60s music icon (Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys) - now along comes another. Get on Up, like Jersey Boys, is more notable for its music than for anything else that ends up ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, ...
Perhaps the greatest benefit offered by The Help is that it aids in remembering. Race relations have changed so radically in America over the last half-century that it's difficult for today's young to grasp how contentious and hate-filled things we...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-08-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Thematic Material)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, ...
If The Intern had confined itself to the unlikely relationship that develops between thirtysomething entrepreneur Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) and seventy-year old retiree Ben Whittaker (Robert DeNiro), it might have worked. Unfortunately, writer/dire...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-09-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Nancy Meyers
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, ...
John Patrick Shanley made a name for himself by scripting Moonstruck, the award- winning 1987 romantic comedy starring Cher and Nicolas Cage. Joe Versus the Volcano, a provocatively-titled, modern day fable, is his fourth script and first oppor...
U.S. Release Date: 1990-03-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: FANTASY/ROMANCE
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, ...
When I was three years old and my playmates were happily watching Sesame Street and cartoons, I would sit in front of the television and gaze at the force of nature that was Julia Child (I also liked Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet). Her larger...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, ...
It would be easy to lump Lethal Weapon into the vast scrapyard of mismatched buddy cop movies, but such a facile classification would do Richard Donner's 1987 thriller a disservice. This is one of the best of the subgenre, an action-packed movie t...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-03-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Richard Donner
Cast: Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, ...