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SPOILERS AHOY!Now that I have seen the movie, I can address a few issues that I couldn't beforehand. For purposes of this column, I am assuming that the reader has either (1) also seen the movie, or (2) doesn't care if I give things away, like the ...
At the time of its 2001 release, expectations were high, perhaps unreasonably so, for A.I., the first β and only β movie to bear the monikers of cinematic heavyweights Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Yet, while A.I. is consistently i...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-06-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, ...
About Last Night, a remake of the 1986 Edward Zwick film which was in turn an adaptation of David Mamet's play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, manages the difficult task of being faithful to the original while taking things in a new direction. The t...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-02-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Steve Pink
Cast: Michael Early, Joy Bryant, Kevin Hart, ...
A marriage between the creative talents of David Mamet and Edward Zwick might seem to be an unlikely union but, in the case of 1986 feature About Last Night..., it is surprisingly effective. Zwick, best known for the emotional resonance he brings ...
U.S. Release Date: 1986-07-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/ROMANCE
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, ...
The first two Disneynature documentaries, 2007's Earth and 2009's Oceans, were visual feasts - amazing experiences made all the more remarkable when blown up for big screen viewing (they were distillations of TV miniseries). Since then, the label h...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-04-18
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
Cast: John C. Reilly (narrator)
In the autumn of 1998, New Line Cinema opened Pleasantville, a thoroughly delightful fantasy about a couple of modern-day kids thrown back in time to a world of wholesome family values where everything is (literally) black and white. Now, less tha...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-02-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/ROMANCE
Director: Hugh Wilson
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, ...
It requires only four words to describe Earth: glorious photography, annoying narration. Essentially, Earth is a blown up (for the big screen), dumbed-down (for a young audience) version of the spectacular TV mini-series, Planet Earth. There's no ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-22
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Cast: James Earl Jones (Narrator)
A moment frozen in time through the lens of a camera - that's one of many images director Jan Troell uses to cement the foundation of his new period piece, Everlasting Moments. The chronicle of a woman who lived and died in the early part of the 2...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-06
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, ...
SPOILERS!!! For the final episode of Battlestar GalacticaFor about five years, on-and-off as a result of the Sci Fi Channel's irregular first run schedule (the cable network converted four seasons into the equivalent of six by breaking two of them - ...