Movies with music written by Randy Edelman
I have no idea why the people who decide such matters have elected to release this perfect Valentine's Day movie in the middle of January. Perhaps it's counter-programming for Cloverfield. Whatever the case, 27 Dresses is an illustration of what ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-01-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ROMANTIC COMEDY
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Edward Burns, ...
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, ...
Daylight is an action picture without a villain. Frankly, it doesn't have much of a plot, either. Or characters, for that matter. In fact, the so-called dramatic elements of this movie are so shaky that you wonder if the filmmakers spent all o...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-12-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Disaster-Related Peril and Destruction)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Sage Stallone, Dan Hedaya, ...
In the early summer sweepstakes, Warner Brothers has weighed in with Twister, Paramount with Mission Impossible, and now Universal with Dragonheart, director Rob Cohen's swords-and-sorcery saga. No prizes for guessing which is most likely to be th...
U.S. Release Date: 1996-05-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, ...
JenniCam. August Live. BaddGrrl Live. GiggleCam. These are just a few examples of one of the Internet's hottest commodities: cam sites - web pages designed by exhibitionists with voyeurs in mind. Sure, some of them are just thinly-disguised s...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-03-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/ROMANCE
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Ellen DeGeneres, ...
Gettysburg, Ronald F. Maxwell's re-telling of four hot days during the summer of 1863 (based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara), is a spectacle that gathers power and momentum with every scene. Originally slat...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: WAR
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Cast: Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, ...
There is so little wrong with this film that I'll get the incidental negatives out of the way first. The introductory moments are somewhat confusing, and it takes about fifteen or twenty minutes to get the characters and situations straight. Made...
U.S. Release Date: 1992-09-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/AVENTURE
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, ...
Often, when a romantic comedy fails, it's because of the lack of chemistry between the leads. In the case of Leap Year, the problem isn't the absence of chemistry but the presence of too much of the wrong kind. The sense of cold antagonism that i...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-01-08
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, ...
I never thought it could happen. Jim Carrey (star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) upstaged -- and not once, but twice! While it's true that The Mask is another vehicle for the rubber-featured modern-day amalgamation of Jerry Lewis and the Three St...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-07-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: ACTION/COMEDY
Director: Charles Russell
Cast: Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, ...
I can understand a sequel to Star Wars. Or Superman. Or The Matrix. Or even Before Sunrise. But Miss Congeniality? Are Hollywood's executives so greedy and creatively bankrupt that they will take any property that made a tidy profit and churn o...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-03-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Pasquin
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano, ...