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Freakonomics is a most atypical documentary indeed. Comprised of a collection of shorts by noted filmmakers Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Seth Gordon (The King of Kong), and He...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-10-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: Seth Gordon, Morgan Spurlock, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jarecki, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Cast: Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
Furious Seven provides what viewers have come to expect from the long-running The Fast and the Furious series: a string of high-octane, physics-defying action scenes loosely connected by a narrative that occasionally makes rudimentary sense. This tim...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-04-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: James Wan
Cast: Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, ...
I confess a degree of bafflement about why Hollywood apparently considers it necessary to employ the dumbest possible screenplays for movies like this. On one level, the only significant differences between G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Transformers ar...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ray Park, Channing Tatum, ...
Not that long ago, toys were developed from movies. Now, it's the other way around. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the filmmakers took the time and effort to do something interesting with the premise. Even considering how well-established is th...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-08-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" ( Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Dennis Quaid, ...
At first glance, James Ronald Whitney's Games People Play: New York appears to be what one might call an extreme reality game - a combination of "Fear Factor" and "Candid Camera" with stunts so over-the-top that even an R rating would be unattainab...
U.S. Release Date: 2004-03-12
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DOCUMENTARY
Director: James Ronald Whitney
Cast: Joshua Coleman, Sarah Smith, Scott Ryan, ...
2014 has already seen one straightforward, largely unimaginative bio-pic of a '60s music icon (Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys) - now along comes another. Get on Up, like Jersey Boys, is more notable for its music than for anything else that ends up ...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-08-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/MUSICAL
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, ...
Frankenstein. The Old Dark House. The Invisible Man. The Bride of Frankenstein. Show Boat. Although this may sound like one of those "which doesn't belong" games, there is a common element to all five '30s motion pictures - they are the en...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-11-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, ...
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is all about sex. There are no two ways around it – from start to finish, this is about what happens (and doesn’t happen) between the sheets (or on them, or on the carpet, or…). It’s about blowjobs and orgasms....
U.S. Release Date: 2022-06-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Sophie Hyde
Cast: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack
Another Netflix would-be blockbuster, another disappointment. According to reports, The Gray Man cost the streaming company close to $200M, which puts it alongside Red Notice as having an MCU-sized budget. Unlike most MCU films, however, The Gray ...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-07-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, ...
There's nothing in The Guardian that audiences haven't previously been exposed to ad nauseam. Take a little of An Officer and a Gentleman and a little Top Gun and throw in some waves and underwater sequences, and you have The Guardian - only with ...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-09-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Andrew Davis
Cast: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, ...