Movies with cinematographer Terry Stacey
Movies about characters suffering from cancer are nothing new. Tales of dying individuals have won Oscars, built reputations, and sold millions of boxes of tissues. Finding a unique niche in this crowded field is a challenge, but director Jonatha...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-09-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, ...
More than 30 years ago, the template established by Animal House for college age comedies became a recognized standard. However, although the Animal House approach is a good way to get cheap laughs, it falls apart when anything more substantive is...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Greg Mottola
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Jack Gilpin, Matt Bush, ...
Dear John delivers pretty much what one would expect from an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel: a high-profile downer of a Harlequin romance. There's a market for this sort of movie, which lays it on thick and does everything possible to make ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-02-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, ...
There’s little doubt that director Christian Gudegast’s primary intention in making Den of Thieves is to emulate Michael Mann’s classic 1995 thriller, Heat. The similarities – from the overall plot to individual story beats – are too...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-01-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Christian Gudegast
Cast: Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, ...
As a character study that examines a pair of reprehensible individuals, The Door in the Floor does an excellent job. The problem with the film is simple: how many people want to spend nearly two hours in the company of such characters. The viewe...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-07-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Tod Williams
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, ...
Four years ago, when I reviewed The Hitman’s Bodyguard, I described it as a fun throwback to the mixed-race buddy pictures of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Due in large part to the combustible chemistry between lead actors Ryan Reynolds (w...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-06-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Patrick Hughes
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, ...
Some movies are simply made for women, and heterosexual men have no hope of appreciating them, I suppose. Do you like shoes? False sentimentality? Something that mistakes generalizations for insight? Then In Her Shoes is the film for you. Curtis Ha...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, ...
Tone is the most noteworthy aspect of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Nanny Diaries. In adapting the best-selling 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, the husband-and-wife team behind American Splendor have tried to keep ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-08-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Nicholas Reese Art, ...
If you want an insightful movie about the grieving process, check out Grace Is Gone, which explores how a suddenly single father must cope not only with the loss of his wife but must face telling his daughters that their mother is not coming home. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Cast: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, ...
It's pointless criticizing a Nicholas Sparks movie for being a Nicholas Sparks movie. Sparks, like Barbara Cartland before him, delivers exactly what his fans want: romance between two attractive people. He tugs at heartstrings, acts like an onion ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Josh Duhamel, Julianne Hough, David Lyons, ...