Movies with music written by James Horner
Jade is for cinematic anglers. There are a lot of fish inhabiting the murky, muddy waters of Joe Eszterhas' latest script, and, except for the occasional shark or two, most of them are herrings -- red herrings, to be precise. However, unlik...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-10-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, ...
Apparently, the producers of Jumanji wanted this film to be a Jurassic Park for 1995's holiday season. If so, it's a badly misplaced, and ultimately futile, hope. For, although no one would suspect Steven Spielberg's 1993 dino-picture of having a...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-12-15
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, ...
In many ways, The Karate Kid is the perfect remake: faithful to the source material in large part yet offering enough nuanced differences to allow it to stand on its own. The problem with the film is that that story, hackneyed when it first made i...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-06-11
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, ...
Some sequels are made too soon, while others are made too late. The Legend of Zorro, Martin Campbell's follow-up to his well-received 1998 feature, The Mask of Zorro, falls into the latter category. It's difficult to say whether the film would ha...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-28
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Adrian Alonso, ...
Legends of the Fall is the sort of epic melodrama that only Hollywood can do this well. It's a spectacle more than a show, with soaring moments of triumph and tragedy. Words like "restraint" and "subtle" are meaningless in this context. The late...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-01-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: ADVENTURE/DRAMA
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, ...
The Life Before Her Eyes is an examination of survivor guilt. It uses as its backdrop a Columbine-like school shooting and flashes back and forth between a girl as she is at the time of the incident and the woman she will be fifteen years later. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-04-18
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Vadim Perelman
Cast: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, ...
Call it the law of diminishing results. Akira Kurosawa’s 1956 classic The Seven Samurai (the first time this story was made into a movie) is a great film - a contender for one of the best 100 motion pictures of all time. (It’s at #32 on m...
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Western
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, ...
Zorro, the swashbuckling hero of the undertrodden, was introduced to the world in 1919 when he debuted in the pages of Johnston McCulley's serialized novel, The Curse of Capistrano. Within a year, the masked man had appeared in a film, the silent ...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-07-17
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, ...
When Mighty Joe Young first reached screens in 1949, nearly everyone recognized it as an attempt to re-create the magic and mystique of King Kong. Many of the same people were involved -- Ernest B. Schoedsack in the director's chair, Robert Armstr...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ADVENTURE
Director: Ron Underwood
Cast: Charlize Theron, Bill Paxton, Rade Sherbedgia, ...
When last we encountered Pocahontas in movie-land, she had been Disney-fied to allow children to experience a sanitized version of her adventures. While there's nothing wrong with Pocahontas (except the history, that is), Terrence Malick is going fo...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, Q'Orianka Kilcher, ...