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Kingsman: The Secret Service is to the '60s British spy movie genre what Kick-Ass is to today's motion picture superhero movement. Part homage, part cartoonish spoof, and part high-energy actioner, Kingsman feels right at home with the likes ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-02-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine, ...
For Knocked Up, writer/director Judd Apatow's sophomore feature, the filmmaker has elected to follow pretty much the same formula that made his debut, The 40 Year Old Virgin, such a success. Considering how winning the formula is, it's a safe appro...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, ...
As a big-budget B-grade monster movie, Kong: Skull Island is a home run. It offers all the tropes and clichés one expects from this sort of endeavor, sparing no expense when it comes to special effects. As a King Kong movie, however, Skull Island is...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-03-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
In 2016, one wonders whether there’s a place in cinema for the 104-year old Tarzan. To make the character more relevant to a modern audience, screenwriters Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, along with director David Yates (who helmed the final four ...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-07-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Adventure
Director: David Yates
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, ...
This review contains (oblique) spoilers.When Disney released Maleficent in 2014, it was a fresh approach to the Sleeping Beauty story – a live-action re-interpretation of the fairy tale with the supposed villain recast as a sympathetic figur...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-18
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Joachim Ronning
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, ...
Okay, so maybe after seeing Tom Cruise scale the tallest building in the world in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, 21 stories doesn't seem that high... but it's still a long way down. And I'd be willing to bet Sam Worthington didn't do all his...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-01-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Asger Leth
Cast: Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell, Elizabeth Banks, ...
If this is the brave new world to which 3D is transporting us, stop the merry-go-'round. I want to get off. Monsters vs. Aliens, one of the 2009 big movies designed to highlight where 3D could transport audiences, is an example of technology ru...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-27
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon
Cast: (voices) Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogan, Hugh Laurie, ...
As a tale of human courage and personal triumph, Murderball works. As a sports documentary, it falls short of the mark. Fortunately, Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's crowd-pleasing movie (it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-15
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Cast: Mark Zupan, Joe Soares, Keith Cavill
Nanny McPhee is an excellent movie… if you're a seven-year old girl. That's less a negative evaluation than it is a statement of fact. This isn't a "family film;" it's a "children's film." What's more, it's for girls who are old enough to unde...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-27
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: FAMILY/ADVENTURE
Director: Kirk Jones
Cast: Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Kelly Macdonald, ...