Movies with music written by Edward Shearmur
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, ...
Love in tennis doesn't have to be bad, as Richard Loncraine's Wimbledon shows. A formulaic motion picture that delights in spite of (or perhaps because of?) its reliance upon conventions, Wimbledon is the kind of movie that allows the non-cynical ...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-09-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Richard Loncraine
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Paul Bettany, Sam Neill, ...
Spoilers – sort of: Although this is not a spoiler-heavy review, there are implied spoilers. While specifics are not revealed, anyone good at reading between lines may learn more about the movie than they want to. Those in search of a "virgin" ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Mikael Håfström
Cast: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, ...
This movie gave me a headache. Okay, maybe that's an unfair charge to lay at its feet but the fact is that when I walked into the theater, I was fine and when I walked out I had a throbbing pain between my temples. And Bride Wars is the kind of m...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-01-09
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, ...
Three things made Dangerous Liaisons, the 1988 Stephen Frears/Christopher Hampton collaboration, one of the best films of the decade: tremendous dialogue, an intriguing and Machiavellian plot, and top-notch performances (excepting Keanu Reeves). ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-03-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Roger Kumble
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, ...
Perhaps the only way to approach Abduction that will not result in a 105-minute boredom-induced coma is to think of it as a comedy, preferably with a drinking game attached. There are laughs to be had, although none of them are intentional. Girls (...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-09-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Director: John Singleton
Cast: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, ...