Movies with music written by Nathan Barr
Despite being adapted from a generally well-liked French film, The Big Wedding feels like nothing more ambitious than a big screen sit-com. It's tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible-to-...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Justin Zackham
Cast: Robert De Niro, Patricia Rae, Robin Williams, ...
Note: If anyone cares, there's a reference in the next-to-last paragraph that enters spoiler territory. As in end-of-the-movie spoiler territory. For the laughably bad debacle that is The Boy Next Door, I won't necessarily blame credited w...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-01-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth, ...
Since it is not possible to endure The Dukes of Hazzard without finding some other task to occupy one's mind (straight viewing could result in brain damage), I passed the time by re-constructing what might have been the pitch meeting in which Warne...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION COMEDY
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, ...
The original Flatliners, the 1990 psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland, wasn’t a good movie. Despite some nice performances, it took a promising premise and squandered the pot...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disturbing Images, Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Cast: Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, ...
Sometimes, calling something "cheesy" and "B-grade" can be construed as a compliment. But not in Hostel's case. A thrill-less thriller that uses gore to obfuscate its inability to generate tension, this motion picture has the profile one might ex...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-01-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, ...
There has been a degree of controversy surrounding the violence in Hostel Part II, with critics in some corners arguing that it amounts to "torture porn." While I'll be the first to admit that Hostel Part II isn't a good film, it's a horror movie,...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-06-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, ...
The awkwardly-titled The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a classic example of a film that works better for children than adults. Seemingly made with the under-10 crowd in mind, the screenplay (credited to Eric Kripke, adapting the book by J...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Disturbing Images, Violence)
Genre: Fantasy
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, ...
As a piece of social satire, it could be argued that The Hunt runs too long. A similar complaint could be made about this as a horror/thriller property. As pregnant as the promise may be, there’s not quite enough to fill the full 90-minute r...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-03-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Craig Zobel
Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, ...
The Last Exorcism is one of those rare films where the marketing campaign is more interesting than the film it publicizes. The movie is clearly low-budget and, rather than spending big bucks in the traditional arenas, Lionsgate has elected to prom...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-08-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Daniel Stamm
Cast: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, ...
This is the third time Stephen King’s bestselling vampire novel, Salem’s Lot, has been adapted for a visual medium. The first two, one in 1979 and the other in 2004, were both mini-series with running lengths of slightly over three hours. In o...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-10-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Gary Dauberman
Cast: Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Jordan Preston Carter, ...