Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Murder, She Said (1961)
Murder, She Said Rating Director George Pollock Screenplay David Osborn, David Pursall, Jack Seddon (Novel: Agatha Christie) Length 1h 27m Starring Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice, Thorley Walters, Charles Tingwell, Conrad Phillips, Ronald Howard, Joan Hickson, Stringer Davis, Ronnie Raymond, Gerald Cross MPAA Rating Unrated
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Review: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution Rating Director Billy Wilder Screenplay Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Larry Marcus (Play: Agatha Christie) Length 1h 56m Starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe, Torin Thatcher, Nora Varden, Una O’Connor MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: The Deep Blue Sea (2012)
The Deep Blue Sea Rating Director Terence Davies Screenplay Terence Davies (Play: Terence Rattigan) Length 1h 38m Starring Ann Mitchell, Jolyon Coy, Karl Johnson, Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sarah Kants, Oliver Ford Davies, Barbara Jefford, Mark Tandy, Stuart McLoughlin, Nicholas Amer MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here
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Review: The Help (2011)
The Help Rating Director Tate Taylor Screenplay Tate Taylor (Novel: Kathryn Stockett) Length 2h 26m Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O’Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Wes Chatham, Aunjanue Ellis MPAA Rating PG-13 Original…
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Review: The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life Rating Director Terrence Malick Screenplay Terrence Malick Length 2h 19m Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler, Tye Sheridan Fiona Shaw, Nicholas Gonda MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here
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Review: Michael Clayton (2007)
Michael Clayton Rating Director Tony Gilroy Screenplay Tony Gilroy Length 1h 59m Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O’Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Tilda Swinton, Denis O’Hare, Julie White MPAA Rating R for language including some sexual dialogue Original Preview Click Here
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Review: Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max Rating Director George Miller Screenplay James McCausland, George Miller, Byron Kennedy Length 1h 28m Starring Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart MPAA Rating R
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5 Favorites #183: Best of the 2020s So Far (FINAL)
Welcome to 5 Favorites. This is my final post in this series and I’m wrapping it up looking at the first three years of the decade. While it’s likely these films will be displaced as the rest of this year and the subsequent six years arrive, this is a pretty solid list of films. Before…
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Review: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie Rating Director John Harrison Screenplay Michael McDowell (Story: Arthur Conan Doyle; Story: Stephen King, George A. Romero) Length 1h 33m Starring Debbie Harry, Davvid Forrester, Matthew Lawrence, Christian Slater, Robert Sedgwick, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, David Johansen, William Hickey, Alice Drummond, Dolores Sutton, Mark Margolis, James Remar, Philip Lenkowsky,…
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5 Favorites #182: Best of the 2010s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. In my penultimate article of this series, we look at the films of the…
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Review: Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Alien: Resurrection Rating Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet Screenplay Joss Whedon Length 1h 49m Starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J.E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Leland Orser MPAA Rating R
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5 Favorites #181: Best of the 2000s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. As my taste in film matured throughout the 1990s, the 2000s was the decade…
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Review: Midnight in Paris (2011)
Midnight in Paris Rating Director Woody Allen Screenplay Woody Allen Length 1h 34m Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hiddleston, Alison Pill, Corey Stoll, Adrien Brody, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Carla Bruni, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Léa Seydoux MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here
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5 Favorites #180: Best of the 1990s
Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. The 1990s were the first decade I really made an effort to watch all…
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Review: Werewolf by Night (2022)
Werewolf by Night (Short Film) Rating Director Michael Giacchino Screenplay Heather Quinn, Peter Cameron Length 52m Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R. Thatcher, Eugenie Bondurant, Leonardo Nam, Daniel J. Watts, Al Hamacher, Carey Jones, David Silverman, Rick Wasserman, Richard Dixon MPAA Rating TV-14
