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The 40 Year Old Virgin is proof that motion picture comedies can still be funny. Sadly, the kind of consistent humor delivered by this film happens too rarely. This is the movie Wedding Crashers should have been: rude, raunchy, uproarious, yet wi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, ...
50 First Dates offers viewers a kinder, gentler Adam Sandler. Gone (at least for one movie) is the narcissistic adolescent caught in a perpetual state of arrested development. In his place is a likeable goofball whose rough edges are worn off by ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-02-13
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Sean Astin, ...
The 5th Wave is an adaptation of Rick Yancey’s 2013 YA sci-fi novel. Although many recent multi-book YA properties have made successful book-to-screen translations (The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner), The 5th Wave is a departure from...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-01-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure
Director: J Blakeson
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Alex Roe, ...
Nearly 150 years after his assassination, Abraham Lincoln is getting his due from Hollywood. 2012 sees the release of three movies featuring the 16th President front-and-center. The biggest of these is Steven Spielberg's long-awaited bio-pic, due t...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-06-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR/ACTION
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, ...
In 1997 movies, the White House is under siege, although not as literally as in last year's Independence Day. No less than three major motion pictures released between New Year's Day and the twilight of the summer season have stories that postulat...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-02-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, ...
Certain ideas are excellent material for short features on programs like Saturday Night Live or In Living Color. Properly padded, it's possible that a few of those premises could even make passable 1/2 hour television programs. However, stretchin...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-02-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Jim Carrey, Courtney Cox, Noble Willingham, ...
For as long as humans have existed, the bravest of their number has sought to explore boundaries and expand vistas. Whether the New World, the Arctic and Antarctic, the peaks of great mountains, the bottom of the ocean, or the vastness of spac...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-12-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Scenes of Peril)
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tom Harper
Cast: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne
Over the course of a 26 year career that encompassed more than 75 movies, Humphrey Bogart made only five color films. The first and most respected of those was 1951’s The African Queen, the last of five pictures he made with his good friend,...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Director: John Huston
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
It is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, the behemoth before which every other would-be blockbuster during the summer of 2015 must bow. Yet, perhaps because the filmmakers subconsciously recognized this and didn't feel the pressure to excel, the ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Hemsworth, ...
The Ballad of Jack and Rose is a low-key character study about a father and daughter whose idyllic lifestyle is interrupted by the arrival of three newcomers. Not much happens in this film beyond the evolution of the characters and their relationshi...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Rebecca Miller
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Catherine Keener, Camilla Belle, ...