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It opens with images of a late-night poker game: cards, chips, sweaty palms, concerned faces, and a woman's fingernails. Then, as night turns to day, the camera moves into the streets of New York, and, with the first bit of dialogue, we know we'v...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-09-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Michael Corrente
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson
There was a time, long before cable and VCRs, when live local news was one of the biggest commodities television stations had to sell. During this era, news anchors were judged far less by their journalistic skills than by their ability to convey ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-07-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, ...
Most remakes are unnecessary but Annie is a bigger offender than many. Reeking of redundancy, the film not only proves incapable of overcoming the inevitable sense of déjà vu but, despite a host of cosmetic changes, it fails to answer the questio...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: MUSICAL
Director: Will Gluck
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhane Wallis, Rose Byrne, ...
Those who question the authorship of Shakespeare's plays are like Climate Change deniers - despite being in a minority, they are tenacious and passionate. Though a surfeit of facts are against them, they are able to make some good points that the o...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-10-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Sebastian Armesto, ...
For Rodney Dangerfield, the stand-up comedian whose catchphrase was “I don’t get no respect,” Back to School provided an opportunity to get more than his share of praise and adulation. The crowd-pleasing comedy grossed $91M, making it th...
U.S. Release Date: 1986-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alan Metter
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, ...
"We're gonna be too big for Hamburg. We're gonna be too big for Liverpool. We're gonna be too big for our own bloody good." - John Lennon, Backbeat Oliver Stone probably loves this film. Not only is Backbeat a story from "his" era, the ear...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Iain Softley
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, ...
Horror/comedies were all the rage in the 1980s, with many of the so-called “serious” genre entries displaying a toothy sense of humor (although one can debate to what extent this was intentional). Excepting perhaps 1984’s Ghostbusters, none ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-09-04
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Scary Images)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, ...
When word emerged from Cannes that Sofia Coppola had won the Best Director prize for her adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s The Beguiled, a shiver of excitement coursed through the film-going community. Perhaps, after trying and missing three t...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-06-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, ...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is one of those pleasant, inoffensive British movies that offers a passably entertaining two hours without providing material that could be construed as edgy or stimulating. The problem may be that it's a little too p...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy Penelope Wilson, ...