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Vox Lux opens with a shock to the system – a scene so stark and well-crafted that its aftermath lingers even as it informs the life decisions of Celeste, the movie’s central character. The movie starts out immersed in normalcy – a high s...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-12-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Brady Corbet
Cast: Natalie Portman, Raffey Cassidy, Jude Law, ...
The Wackness is a period piece drama that takes viewers back to the summer of 1994 in New York City. It's three months in the life of a drug dealer as he traverses the road from high school graduation to the start of college. This is basically a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-07-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, ...
"Why does a dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than the tail. If the tail was smarter, it would wag the dog." Hollywood and Presidential politics - perfect together. Anyone who doubts this simple maxim will face a challenge to their...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-12-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Kirsten Dunst, Suzie Plakson, ...
As coming of age stories go, Wah-Wah does little to distinguish itself. Based on the memories of actor-turned-director/writer Richard E. Grant, the bland film loses its focus early during the proceedings and never gets it back. With the late 196...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-05-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Richard E. Grant
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, ...
Thirty minutes into Waiting for Guffman, my stomach hurt from laughing. Like some of the most brilliant comedies of recent years -- Clerks, Living in Oblivion, and Flirting with Disaster, to name a few -- Waiting for Guffman reminds us of the true...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Christopher Guest
Cast: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, ...
After a short three-year hiatus, filmmaker Richard Linklater (whose previous outing was The Newton Boys) has returned to the world of cinema with the offbeat and ambitious Waking Life, an animated excursion through the dreams and philosophical musi...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-10-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ANIMATED/DRAMA
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Wiley Wiggins
Nihilistic. Grim. Humorless. Misogynistic. Those are just a few words that could be used to describe Liam Neeson's new thriller, A Walk Among the Tombstones. The title provides more than a clue about the movie's tone and intentions. Yet this isn't...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Scott Frank
Cast: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens, David Harbour, ...
If nothing else, at least it can be said that Walk Hard is not just another lame, humorless attempt at lampooning a popular genre. Perhaps due to the co-authorship of Judd Apatow or perhaps because Jake Kasdan aspires to be more than this generatio...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jake Kasdan
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, Kristen Wiig, ...
A couple of old guys taking a walk on the Appalachian Trail - it doesn't sound like a winning motion picture formula and, as it turns out, it isn't. Like all road trip movies, the success (or lack thereof) of A Walk in the Woods relies heavil...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-09-02
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Emma Thompson, ...
It would be fair to characterize writer/director Paul Schrader as someone who's fascinated by the seamier side of human nature. Some of his best known screenplays, including Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for Martin Scorsese, have plumbed the depths ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-12-07
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, ...