WATCH NOW GATTACA In this future dystopia, the world is divided between the affluent and beautiful, who have genetically engineered DNA, and the riffraff, who have all the flaws. The hero (Ethan Hawke) is an inferior trying to “pass” so he can become an astronaut. He falls for an elite woman (Uma Thurman). And the […]
Good Night, and Good Luck Whether or not you were alive in the 1950s, the opening scene of Good Night, and Good Luck puts you there with unerring detail the clothes, the hair, the smoke filled room, the subtle lack of sophistication as friends gather for a photo. But most of all it’s the richly
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Field Details Movie Name THE SIEGE (1998) Director Edward Zwick Writer Lawrence Wright, Menno Meyjes, Edward Zwick Lead Actor Denzel Washington Cast Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, Lance Reddick Genre Action, Thriller, Drama Release Date November 6, 1998 (United States) Duration 1h 56m (116 min) Budget $70 million Language English
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
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WATCH NOW THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and two colleagues are measuring climate changes in Antarctica when the ice ledge on which they are encamped breaks apart. Soon after, Jack is in New Delhi speaking at a conference on global warming. He encourages government officials to act soon to stop the effects
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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
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WATCH NOW THE DEPARTED Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Evermore in this world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.” This film is a testament to just how infested human societies can become with rats, both large and small, old and young. Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) is an Irish-American crime boss
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WATCH NOW THE DEVIL’S OWN is a humane thriller based on the idea that a law-abiding American-Catholic policeman offers room and board to a young Irish immigrant who is actually a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. Both actors (Harrison Ford as the cop, Brad Pitt as the stranger) are loaded with charisma. Pitt’s character has killed 24
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WATCH NOW Like watching a car try to beat a train across the tracks and failing The Day of the Dolphin is a jaw-dropping disaster that you can’t turn away from. Fortunately, this one is caught on film for posterity. If you’re unfamiliar with the movie, you won’t believe it’s really about this until you
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WATCH NOW It’s awfully long, but The Day of the Jackal (which inspired a remake almost 25 years later) is a terribly compelling look at the machinations of an assassin and the military/police machinations that must occur in order to apprehend him. Or, more to the point, the machinations of 1973, before the dawn of
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