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Sixteen years after her death, Princess Diana is still capable of generating interest, which is probably the only reason why this dull, pointless movie was greenlighted. A scattershot treatment of the paparazzi darling's life during her post-Charle...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-11-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar
It is often said that America is a "melting pot." Judging by director Stephen Frears' unconventional portrait of life in London, the U.K. is just as much a bubbling cauldron as its former colonies. Since the 20th century, every major city acro...
U.S. Release Date: 2003-08-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Chiwetel Ejofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, ...
Thirty-six years after publishing The Shining, Stephen King returned to the world where the Overlook Hotel once stood to catch up with how things have been going for the now-adult character of Danny Torrance. The lure of making a movie...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-11-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Horror
Director: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Kyliegh Curran, Rebecca Ferguson, ...
Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), a product of late 19th Century England, drew pictures of cats. All sorts of cats – big cats, small cats, wild cats, tame cats. Most were anthropomorphized, although some more than others. Wain’s cat drawi...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mental Illness)
Genre: Drama
Director: Will Sharpe
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, ...
Once upon a time, Disney was the king of animation. Today, in the realm of CGI and 3D, they remain at the top only by virtue of a partnership with Pixar. Hand-drawn animation - the kind responsible for many of Disney's most beloved classics - is ...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-11-21
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED/FAMILY
Director: Kevin Lima
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, ...
Evil Dead Rise, the fifth big-screen outing for Sam Raimi’s Deadites (they also had a three-season run on cable TV) tries to answer the question of whether The Evil Dead are strong enough on their own right to engage the viewer without the domin...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-04-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Lee Cronin
Cast: Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Gabrielle Echols, ...
For one reason or another, there have been few quality movies made about 9/11. Maybe it's because the event is too recent and the wound too fresh. Or perhaps it's because filmmakers are keenly aware that a misstep could lead to charges of exploitat...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, ...
(This may contain spoilers. Hard to say with a series like this.)Life may be like a box of chocolates, but Fast and Furious films aren’t. With these movies, you always know what you’re going to get. After two decades of increasingly improb...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-06-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Sung Kang, John Cena, ...
"Mindless entertainment": that's a phrase that will be repeated often enough in association with Fast & Furious 6, which exists purely to showcase how idiotically over-the-top action sequences can become when annoyances like gravity are tossed to t...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-05-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, ...
Optimism springs eternal. I went to the third Fast and the Furious movie with the deeply held conviction that it had to be better than 2 Fast 2 Furious (or whatever that misbegotten turd of a second movie was called). I was right, but "better" do...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-06-16
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Justin Lin
Cast: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelly, ...