WATCH NOW The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, based on the 1994 novel by late author Chris Fuhrman, is a film about children made primarily for an adult audience. It’s a thoughtful meditation on the thrills and difficulties that come with being a fourteen year old in a world where every older, authority figure seems […]
WATCH NOW ELIZABETH with spectacular Aussie Oscar contender Cate Blanchett in the title role, is a flashy, nasty version of how Queen Elizabeth I became the mythic Virgin Queen of British history. The purpose is drama, not scrupulous academic detail, in doing this subject again. Writer Michael Hirst and director Shekhar Kapur use creative reconstruction
WATCH NOW A member of the LAPD’s elite Special Investigations Squad, he’s the kind of guy who freely expounds on the depravity of L.A.’s lower classes with a barrage of bigoted epithets, and feels no pangs of conscience when gunning down unarmed suspects in back alleys. According to Perry’s tunnel vision logic, a criminal is
WATCH NOW ELIZABETHTOWN has some similarities to In Her Shoes. Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) designs a line of sports shoes that fail. This results in the company losing a billion dollars in projected sales. Drew, close to suicide, gets a call from his frantic sister, Heather (Judy Greer), who tells him their father has suddenly
WATCH NOW One of the lamer superheroes in comic book and movie history, Darkman is formed from massive burns over 40 percent of his body, his home made synthetic skin which degrades after exposure to light, and an inability to feel pain. After girlfriend Frances McDormand nearly gets our scientist friend (Liam Neeson) killed, he
WATCH NOW Largely a goof on 2001, John Carpenter’s super low budget sci-fi pic gets a really slow start but becomes tons of fun for its last couple of acts. Borrowing from H.A.L.’s conflicted nature, Star Trek’s world view, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and various sci-fi stories, it all comes down to convincing
WATCH NOW THE END OF THE AFFAIR is about a man in an intense love affair with a married woman who suddenly ends it. (The setting is London in the 1940’s.) He doesn’t know that she is having a deep religious conversion and suspects instead that she has found a new lover. He’s not entirely
WATCH NOW It’s always weird to see the enemy as the good guy, and Das Boot leaps out as probably the greatest example of this up until Schindler’s List. This time the Nazis are at sea, faced with the claustrophobia and filth of a German U-Boat, trying to figure out what the hell Hitler is
Field Details Movie Name Chicago (2002) Director Rob Marshall Writer Bill Condon, based on the stage musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb Lead Actor Renée Zellweger Cast Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly Genre Musical, Crime, Drama Release Date December 27, 2002 (United States) Duration 1h 53m Budget $45
Field Details Movie Name The Clearing (2004) Director Pieter Jan Brugge Writer Justin Haythe Lead Actor Robert Redford Cast Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven Genre Drama, Thriller Release Date July 2, 2004 (United States) Duration 1h 35m Budget $25 million Language English IMDb Rating 5.8/10 Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) is
