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In the past, I have tried to match performances with the Academy's four vaunted categories: Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress. However, since who gets into what category is a matter of games and politics, I'm not going ...
Let me begin by expressing the following (lest what follows be taken the wrong way): With respect to what's currently happening in Hollywood, my sympathies lie with the writers. With the exception of brain-dead movies like Transformers, it's ...
Through the years, there have been many big-screen attempts to satirize James Bond, from the terrible misfire Casino Royale to the recent, even-worse Spy Hard. In between, even the "official" Bond series got in on the act -- during the Roger Moore...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-05-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, ...
There can be a lot of power in stories about addiction: the power to dishearten, the power to frustrate, and (on rare occasions) the power to uplift. Regardless of the substance at the core of the disease, movies about addiction follow a famil...
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Cast: Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney, ...
As horror/comedies go, The Blackening is one of the better ones. A satire in the same vein as Scary Movie, it uses barbed satire to skewer a host of horror movie tropes but does so with a specific perspective. Beneath all the gags, jokes, and ...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-08-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Sinqua Walls, ...
I suppose Blue Crush can be viewed as a "guilty pleasure", with an emphasis on the first word of that phrase over the second one. The movie, the latest directorial effort from John Stockwell (Crazy/Beautiful), is redeemed to one degree or another ...
U.S. Release Date: 2002-08-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: John Stockwell
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, ...