Movies with music written by Alex Heffes

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Dear Frankie

Dear Frankie, the feature debut of director Shona Auerbach, is a cinematic definition of mediocrity. Neither awful nor impressive, it features moments of genuine power and instances when it is cloying. The end result is an unremarkable, unmemorab...

Run Time: 1:42
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Shona Auerbach
Cast: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, ...
Escape Plan

Escape Plan can best be viewed through glasses with nostalgia-tinted lenses. It's a Valentine to the '80s starring two of the decade's larger-than-life action stars in a plot that would have been at home during the Reagan years. Some thirty years l...

Run Time: 1:56
U.S. Release Date: 2013-10-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, ...
Imagine Me & You

Romantic comedies don't get more generic than this one. Imagine Me & You (beware movies that borrow their titles from pop songs…) follows the established formula with only one Sapphic deviation - the romantic leads are both female. But, for all...

Run Time: 1:34
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: ROMANCE
Director: Ol Parker
Cast: Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Matthew Goode, ...
Last King of Scotland, The

The Last King of Scotland, in addition to having one of the most misleading titles of any movie to open this Oscar season, could also be 2006's Hotel Rwanda. Like last year's sadly overlooked feature, this one peers into another troubled African na...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: 2006-09-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Kerry Washington, ...
Mafia Mamma

Maybe at some point, the idea sounded good. Funny, perhaps. Clever even. A fish-out-of-water comedy drenched in enough blood to earn it a solid R-rating. But if there was any potential in the initial inspiration, it was frittered away. J. Michael ...

Run Time: 1:41
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Toni Collette, Monica Bellucci, Eduardo Scarpetta, ...
Miss Bala

Miss Bala is a reworking of a 2011 Mexican film. Although the movies may share the same name, they have different agendas. The original Miss Bala focused more on the dramatic elements than the action/thriller ones and wasn’t afraid to get d...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2019-02-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Cristina Rodlo, ...
Rite, The

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is more fascinated by the subject of exorcism than the public in general. The Exorcist did for this horror subgenre what Jaws accomplished for sharks. Sure, there have been sequels and knock-offs, but no...

Run Time: 1:53
U.S. Release Date: 2011-01-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Violence)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, ...
State of Play

The three screenwriters (Matthew Michael Carnahan, Tony Gilroy, Billy Ray) credited with adapting Paul Abbott's mini-series into a motion picture have done something remarkable: reduce five hours of material into less than two hours and still produ...

Run Time: 1:58
U.S. Release Date: 2009-04-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, ...
Touching the Void

Truth, they say, is stranger than fiction… and also potentially more nail-biting and harder to believe. Touching the Void is an extreme example of this - a man versus nature epic so amazing that, if it was presented in a strictly narrative forma...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Joe Simpson, Simon Yates, Brendan Mackey, ...