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Call Me by Your Name, the latest film from Italian director Luca Guadagnino, is a study in mood and emotion. It’s about living in the moment and capturing that moment. It’s about using the canvas of film to convey to the audience the inner...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-11-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, ...
For those of us who write movie reviews, there's a phrase we all know: "review embargo." In layman's terms, this means that reviews are not supposed to appear on a website until the day the movie opens. Studios like to employ embargoes because it ...
It is accepted practice that a comedy, even the most outrageous one, must have some sort of skeletal plot structure. Most of these are nonsense and sometimes impede the viewer's ability to enjoy the film's humorous antics. Such is the case with C...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-01-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/THRILLER
Director: Les Mayfield
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, ...
Dolemite Is My Name isn’t only a biopic of the comedian/actor/musician Rudy Ray Moore, it’s Eddie Murphy’s Valentine to one of the most outrageous figures in ‘70s Blaxploitation films. Murphy has long desired to make a movie about Moor...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-10-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Kodi Smit-McPhee, ...
Sometimes it's only through the greatest of tragedies and the gravest of injustices that human beings learn to relate to each other honestly and openly. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Jim Sheridan's searing In the Name of the Father, where ...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-01-14
MPAA Rating: "R " (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, ...
In the Name of the King is a second-rate regurgitation of The Lord of the Rings. Everything about it, down to the set and costume design, apes Peter Jackson's epic trilogy. However, while The Lord of the Rings was a grand story of scope and power,...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-01-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Uwe Boll
Cast: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, ...
"James, you take movies too seriously." Those words (or ones nearly like them) were spoken to me 24 years ago by my college girlfriend, Tracie. They were true then and, if anything, they are truer today. Ironically, her theatrical experience (among ...
Movie-goers attend Ken Loach movies for a variety of reasons, but one of them is not to have a "feel good" experience. The reason? Loach consistently looks at believable characters in realistic situations. His pictures are not escapist; they're ...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-01-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, ...