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I define a "boo!" moment as an instant in a movie when there is a loud sound, usually accompanied by a musical stinger and occasionally in concert with the fast pass of an unidentifiable object across a portion of the camera's field of view. The i...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-02-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Danny Pang & Oxide Pang
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, ...
30 years have passed since the assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and, the ballot passage of California's recent Proposition 8 notwithstanding, advances have been made in the area of gay rights, although there are still many hurd...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, ...
If David Lynch and David Mamet can do it, why not Danny Boyle? I'm talking about hard-R directors suddenly producing a film that is suitable for family viewing. Lynch and Mamet both went G several years ago (Lynch with The Straight Story and Mamet wi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon, James Nesbitt, ...
The first star vehicle of the summer of 1996 is also the first major disappointment of the season. Mission: Impossible, the big screen resurrection of the popular late-'60s/early-'70s series, fails to generate much in the way of excitement or ...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Brian DePalma
Cast: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Beart, Jon Voight, ...
When a movie tries to be intentionally campy, it follows a difficult road. Most films that attempt this fail because the artifice of the situation drains the humor from it. Genuine camp is the child of earnestness and ineptitude, and is only foun...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jared Hess
Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Hector Jimenez, ...
The Next Three Days, Paul Haggis' adaptation of the 2008 French film, Anything for Her, uses an interesting concept as a cornerstone of the foundation. Instead of employing a seasoned professional as the lead character of this heist thriller, the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-11-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: Paul Haggis
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, ...
When I was a child, one of the reasons I enjoyed the Christmas season so much was the annual arrival of those endlessly-repeated television specials: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, The Year Without a Santa Claus. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-10-22
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Henry Selick
Cast: (voices) Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, ...
Last year, when I heard about a film on the way called Notorious, I was concerned that there would be an "updating" of Alfred Hitchcock's film of the same name. Thankfully, this is not the case. Notorious is not an example of a remake, but it is ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cast: Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, ...
Oz the Great and Powerful is director Sam Raimi's prequel to The Wizard of Oz. This new vision of The Land of Oz is an imaginative mix of live-action and CGI that pays homage to the iconic images and timeless sense of wonder in the classic The Wiza...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, ...
Gene Siskel infamously gave Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure a zero-star review, stating “Obviously, Pee-Wee is tolerable only in Pee-Wee doses…” Although that seems unnecessarily harsh, especially in retrospect (now that the film is commonly viewe...
U.S. Release Date: 1985-08-09
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tim Burton
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