WATCH NOW One impressive speculation in this movie is that the face of the doctor is the last sight many people see on this earth. Thus, doctors should try to be pleasant, if not beatific. Otherwise, Dragonfly is another nonsectarian afterlife movie in which belief is greatly rewarded. A hardened Chicago ER medic, Joe Darrow […]
WATCH NOW THE GAME San Francisco investment banker (Michael Douglas) is a loner, a tough businessman whose heart is stuck on the bottom line. Stir him into a paranoid urban thriller in which he struggles against a conspiracy. Does the threat come from family, like his shiftless brother (Sean Penn), or from others? For some
Field Details Movie Name The Da Vinci Code (2006) Director Ron Howard Writer Akiva Goldsman, based on the novel by Dan Brown Lead Actor Tom Hanks Cast Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany Genre Mystery, Thriller Release Date May 19, 2006 (United States) Duration 2h 29m Budget $125 million Language English
WATCH NOW DELIVER US FROM EVIL Filmmaker Amy Berg has created a harrowing, heartbreaking, dramatically powerful documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, described on the film’s Web site as “the most notorious pedophile in the history of the Catholic Church.” (Berg assures me personally that everything in the film is documented.) This Irish-born priest ministered in
WATCH NOW Steve Martin’s homage to the 1940s and 50s is a one joke movie that wears thin after 45 minutes (in which Martin inserts himself into classic film noirs, often in drag, where he turns the melodrama into comedy). Fortunately, the laughs are plentiful enough throughout to make Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid worthwhile
WATCH NOW EXTREME MEASURES is a cut above the average thriller. Its “mad scientist” plot a reputable researcher (Gene Hackman) collects homeless derelicts in Manhattan for spinal cord experiments is only a cover for exploring very relevant issues in medical ethics. Hugh Grant plays the idealistic E.R. doc who stumbles onto the conspiracy and pursues
WATCH NOW EYES WIDE SHUT Stanley Kubrick’s last film closely follows an early 20th-century Arthur Schnitzler novella and transfers it from Vienna to contemporary New York. A sympathetic young doctor and his wife (Bill and Alice, played by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) are well-off and devoted to their young child. They seem happily married
Field Details Movie Name City Hall (1996) Director Harold Becker Writer Ken Lipper, Paul Schrader, Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman Lead Actor Al Pacino Cast Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Release Date February 16, 1996 (United States) Duration 1h 51m Budget $40 million Language English IMDb Rating
Field Details Movie Name SIGNS (2002) Director M. Night Shyamalan Writer M. Night Shyamalan Lead Actor Mel Gibson Cast Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin, Cherry Jones, Patricia Kalember Genre Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Release Date August 2, 2002 (United States) Duration 1h 46m (106 min) Budget $72 million Language English IMDb Rating
Field Details Movie Name SPHERE (1998) Director Barry Levinson Writer Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio (screenplay); based on the novel by Michael Crichton Lead Actor Dustin Hoffman Cast Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber Genre Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller Release Date February 13, 1998 (United States) Duration 2h 14m (134 min) Budget
