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Spoilers Ahoy! This review talks in detail about plot points, including the ending, so if you haven’t seen either the play or the movie and want to experience it without knowing beforehand what happens, I suggest avoiding this review.In late...
U.S. Release Date: 1986-11-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Musical
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, ...
The credits for The Hateful Eight proudly proclaim this to be the “Eighth Film” from writer/director Quentin Tarantino. Since catching the movie world unawares with his powerhouse debut, Reservoir Dogs, some 23 years ago, he has worked on...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Western/Adventure
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...
With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction. He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time. If you think there are rules for this sort of motion pi...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: ACTION/WAR
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, ...
Someone once said this about the United States' justice system: "If ten guilty men must go free to prevent one innocent man from falsely going to prison, so be it." This philosophy explains why, at least in theory, every accused criminal is presu...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
Cast: Jessie Misskelly, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin
Wars, no matter when they are fought or which weapons are employed, share many common characteristics. One is that the cheapest currency is human life. Another is that even the winners pay a toll. And a third is that many soldiers, upon returnin...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Myrna Loy, Harold Russell, Gladys George, ...
In the Bedroom is arguably one of the year's most anticipated independent releases - a movie whose incessant buzz at Sundance carried it at the crest of a wave to Toronto, then placed it in theaters before the end of the year. For those unable to ...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-11-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Field
Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, ...
Since its theatrical release in the summer of 1994, Forrest Gump has become one of those movies seemingly everyone is familiar with. It's a cultural touchstone with lines like "Life is a box of chocolates" appearing everywhere from tee-shirts to gr...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-07-06
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Drugs, Nudity, Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, ...
An astonishing motion picture by any standards, To Kill a Mockingbird only failed to win a Best Picture Oscar because it was in the running against Lawrence of Arabia. The minimalist might call this a "courtroom drama", but that would be selling t...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, ...
Many critics consider The Third Man to be the best British post-World War II film noir. There are others (myself included) who believe it to be one of the best-ever examples of film noir to come out of all of Europe. The Third Man has all the rig...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, ...
There are some who wrongfully assume that The Hustler is about pool. It is a natural assumption: much of the action takes place in billiards rooms and pool halls, but this movie is no more about pool than Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is about bo...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, ...