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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, a 1987 feature from John Hughes, represented something of a watershed in the career of the prolific writer/director/producer. Prior to this film, Hughes had been known for his contribution to the popular '80s genre...
U.S. Release Date: 1987-11-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Planet of the Apes was arguably the first American science fiction franchise of the post-serial film era. In many ways, the Planet of the Apes series developed the blueprint used by many subsequent multi-segment science fiction endeavors (such as ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "G" (Profanity, Brief Nudity, Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, ...
This remake of the 1968 film, Planet of the Apes, has been on the drawing board for a long time. When it was first mentioned as a serious project (rather than just the figment of Apes fans' imaginations), the two prominent names attached to it wer...
U.S. Release Date: 2001-07-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, ...
Since the end of the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, numerous motion pictures have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to capture one or more aspects of the most contentious American conflict of the 20th century. From this crop, three stand...
U.S. Release Date: 1986-12-24
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: WAR
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, ...
Playing by Heart is an ensemble dramatic comedy about the many faces of love: romance, longing, loss, sex, and lust. Set in modern-day L.A., the film tells six seemingly-unrelated tales about men and women finding each other, losing each other, u...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Willard Carroll
Cast: Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, ...
Playing for Keeps is a sloppy, poorly focused comedy that wants to be about the relationship between a father and his 9-year old son but ends up being about nearly everything else. The core problem is clear: the interaction between ex-soccer star G...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-12-07
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content)
Genre: ROMANCE/COMEDY
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Noah Lomax, ...
Welcome to a world where Father knows best, where Mother cooks dinner, and where Sister and Brother's small missteps are treated with stern-but-kind lectures. It's a realm where everyone is nice to one another, where neighbors greet each other...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Gary Ross
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, Jeff Daniels, ...
When actor Jack Quaid was a kid, his mother, Meg Ryan, was the Queen of the Romantic Comedy, so there’s something fitting about his venturing into this genre for his highest profile role to-date. Although significantly more profane than any ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-06-12
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Jeff Chan & Andrew Rhymer
Cast: Jack Quaid, Maya Erskine, Ed Begley Jr.
Anyone who expects historical accuracy from a Disney animated feature should be ashamed of themself. Those approaching Pocahontas in anticipation of a true-to-history account of the early days of Jamestown are in for a rude awakening. In real...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-06-16
MPAA Rating: "G" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
Cast: (voices) Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Russell Means, ...
Give the makers of Point Break credit - in reworking Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 thriller, they didn’t go for a point-by-point revision. Director Ericson Core and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer opted to try something different. Unfortunately, differ...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Ericson Core
Cast: Luke Bracey, Edgar Ramirez, Ray Winstone, ...