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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is about 70% style and 30% substance. It has a plot and characters, but those are almost beside the point. They are devices that function as hooks upon which first-time director Kerry Conran can hang his amaz...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-09-17
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Kerry Conran
Cast: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, ...
Initially, Sky High looked like it was going to be one of the summer's throw-away movies - a family comedy with suspicious similarities to last year's The Incredibles. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that not only is Sky High too good to be ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Mike Mitchell
Cast: Michael Angarano, Bruce Campbell, Kelly Vitz, ...
8-year old Jonah Baldwin (Ross Malinger) misses his mother, who died from cancer eighteen months ago. More than that, however, he recognizes that his father, Sam (Tom Hanks), is desperately lonely. So, on Christmas Eve, Jonah calls a radio talk-s...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-06-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Nora Ephron
Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, ...
Sleuth, a 1972 "thinking person's thriller," is a rich, engaging motion picture with surprises lurking in the shadows behind every narrative corner. The film opens with a shot of Michael Caine making his way through a hedge labyrinth in search...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
No matter how old you grow, you never forget the rare and special magic associated with a snow day. There's nothing quite like the experience of waking up to a virgin blanket of white, and realizing that, at least for one day, the normal drudgery ...
U.S. Release Date: 2000-02-01
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Chris Koch
Cast: Mark Webber, Zena Grey, Chris Elliott, ...
It’s hard to imagine any version of Richard Matheson’s 1975 novel Bid Time Return working. The level of suspension of disbelief is so high that, although can be achieved in a written work, where the imagination is engaged, the same is not true...
U.S. Release Date: 1980-10-03
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Cast: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, ...
In the marketing material for Sonic the Hedgehog, Paramount’s synopsis begins with the following words: “Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega…” Little more needs to be said. In the grand tradition of other moti...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
Director: Jeff Fowler
Cast: Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, ...
Perhaps it takes a movie like The Sorcerer's Apprentice to make one appreciate the level of creativity evident in the Harry Potter series. Distilled to their bare essences, both stories are remarkably similar: a modern-day kid discovers he has mag...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-07-14
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, ...
Is Soul a Valentine to rhythm-and-blues? Yes. Is it an unconventional buddy movie? Yes. Is it a mentor/student tale in which both individuals learn from each other? Yes. Is it an excursion into a realm where the existential has been anthropomo...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Pete Docter
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, ...
Spoilers! (Although the movie is 46 years old)Soylent Green represents the last film in Charlton Heston’s unofficial post-apocalyptic trilogy, following Planet of the Apes (1968) and The Omega Man (1971). After this, he would move onto o...
U.S. Release Date: 1973-05-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Adult Themes, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, ...