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When the invasion of Iraq transpired in 2003, assurances came down from on high that this act was necessary to remove the clear and present danger represented by Sadaam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (this is when the acronym WMD entered the...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, ...
The story of celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pré is too good not to have been made into a movie. However, the most gratifying thing about director Anand Tucker's Hilary and Jackie is that it not only does it tell the tale, but does it so a uniqu...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, ...
Upon occasion, cinema can make for strange bedfellows. Consider, for example, I Think I Love My Wife. This relationship comedy marries the sensibilities of French New Wave auteur Eric Rohmer with the youth-friendly, sometimes raunchy humor of Chr...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Chris Rock
Cast: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, ...
In the Bedroom is arguably one of the year's most anticipated independent releases - a movie whose incessant buzz at Sundance carried it at the crest of a wave to Toronto, then placed it in theaters before the end of the year. For those unable to ...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-11-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Field
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, ...
During the course of my recent trip to Manila, I read two books. The first, read from cover to cover during the trip over, was Sue Grafton's R is for Richocet, the latest (and 18th) in the "Alphabet Murder" series. There's not too much to be said ...
In the Company of Men is one of those rarest of rare breeds -- a movie that doesn't just ignore Hollywood conventions, but openly flouts them. The film, which premiered to great critical acclaim at 1997's Sundance Film Festival, initially had trou...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Matt Malloy, Stacy Edwards
Although the events depicted in Fatih Akin’s In the Fade are fictional, their implications and consequences are grounded in reality. Terrorist events are becoming sadly commonplace and, although news reports focus on the immediate action, ra...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-12-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Disturbing Images, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Johannes Krisch, ...
Whoever came up with the cliche "comedy is subjective" knew what he/she was talking about. Few things are more individual than humor. One person's Monty Python is another person's Freddy Got Fingered. This makes reviewing comedies especially hard...
If you go to see Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, you will get two movies for the price of one. The first is a rousing deep sea adventure about a ship venturing into rarely-traveled waters in search of one of the era’s most val...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Themes)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, ...
In the Heat of the Night was the first film – and not the last – to capture the Academy’s attention with its clear-eyed but hopeful examination of race relations in the South during the 1960s. Based on John Ball’s 1965 novel of the sam...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity, Instances of Race-Related Bigotry)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, ...