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The underlying premise of Devil is the kind of thing Alfred Hitchcock could have used to develop a tightly-wound, pulse-pounding suspense movie. Unfortunately, Hitchcock is dead and the two men shepherding Devil through its production are not near...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER/HORROR
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara, ...
Released in 1971, Diamonds Are Forever was Sean Connery's final "official" turn as James Bond (although he eventually starred in Never Say Never Again, 1983's Thunderball remake). After skipping On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Connery was lure...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Sean Connery, Charles Gray, Jill St. John, ...
Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into the "mindless entertainment" genre have as much going for them as this movie. Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, ...
Perhaps the best way to describe the third segment in the popular Die Hard series is by comparing it to the previous two. That should give an adequate assessment of how far the adventures of John McClane (Bruce Willis) have fallen. The original D...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-05-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John McTiernan
Cast: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons, ...
The Dig is the kind of low-key period piece that the Brits do so well. Based on actual events that occurred in pre-WW2 Suffolk, the movie explores the efforts of excavator Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to uncover a sixth-century burial site. Of ...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-01-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Simon Stone
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan, Archie Barnes, ...
While watching Disney's Dinosaur, with all of its incredibly rendered creatures and seamless blending of animated objects with real backgrounds, a question occurred to me: In movies like this, can the writing keep pace with the technology? Films ...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-05-19
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Cast: (voices) .B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Joan Plowright, ...
More than 30 years after its initial release, The Dirty Dozen remains one of the most popular war films ever to grace the silver screen - a reputation that not even three bad made-for-TV sequels in the late '80s could tarnish. A quintessential "gu...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: WAR/ADVENTURE
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, ...
It can be convincingly argued that John Waters' oeuvre is an acquired taste. If that's the case, I haven't yet acquired it. I view Waters as a pre-adolescent male in a state of arrested development. He is obsessed with what kids snickeringly ref...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-09-24
MPAA Rating: "NC-17" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Waters
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, ...
Spoiler Note: The review is “spoiler lite” with nothing beyond what has been shown in the trailer and other officially sanctioned pre-release material. However, although I don’t reveal any cameos that are in the film, I mention some that are...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-05-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, ...