Category: Film Reviews

A Place in the Sun Rating Director George Stevens Screenplay Michael Wilson, Harry Brown (Novel: Theodore Dreiser; Play: Patrick Kearney) Length 2h 02m Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark, Raymond Burr, Herbert Heyes, Shepperd Strudwick, Frieda Inescort, Kathryn Givney, Walter Sande, Ted de Corsia, John Ridgely, Lois Chartrand,…

Nashville Rating Director Robert Altman Screenplay Joan Tewkesbury Length 2h 40m Starring David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Timothy Brown, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Doqui, Shelley Duvall, Allen Garfield, Henry Gibson, Scott Glenn, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Harris, David Hayward, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, Dave Peel, Cristina Raines, Bert Remsen, Lily…

A Matter of Life and Death Rating Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Screenplay Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Length 1h 44m Starring David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonor Colleano, Joan Maude, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Roger Atkins MPAA Rating PG Review Released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven, Michael Powell…

The Magnificent Ambersons Rating Director Orson Welles Screenplay Orson Welles (Novel: Booth Tarkington) Length 1h 28m Starring Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Orson Welles MPAA Rating Not Rated Review How do you follow one of the greatest cinematic achievements in history? With a film…

L.A. Confidential Rating Director Curtis Hanson Screenplay Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson (Novel: James Ellroy) Length 2h 18m Starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paul Guilfoyle, Paolo Seganti MPAA Rating R Review In the sun-drenched streets of Los Angeles, a darkness creeps through…

Funhouse Rating Director Jason William Lee Screenplay Jason William Lee, Henrik Santesson Length 1h 46m Starring Valter Skarsgård, Khamisa Wilsher, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Karolina Benefield, Amanda Howells, Mathias Retamal, Dayleigh Nelson, Jerome Velinsky, Kylee Bush, Debs Howard, Bradley Duffy, Michael MacKinnon, David Peniuk, Ben Heidi, Scotty Scnurr Mac, Aron Olaf Johnson, Sean Scott MPAA Rating…

Bloody Hell Rating Director Alister Grierson Screenplay Robert Benjamin Length 1h 33m Starring Ben O’Toole, Meg Fraser, Caroline Craig, Matthew Sunderland, Travis Jeffery, Jack Finsterer, David Hill, Joshua Brennan, Ashlee Lollback, Sophia Emberson-Bain, Ryan Tarran MPAA Rating R Review It’s difficult to imagine how a horror film based around the concept of post-traumatic stress can…

Grand Illusion Rating Director Jean Renoir Screenplay Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir Length 1h 53m Starring Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Carette, Peclet, Werner Florian, Daste, Itkine, Modot, Dalio MPAA Rating Not Rated Review Although we continue to get pro- and anti-war films in a modern framework, looking back at those from…

Challengers Rating Director Luca Guadagnino Screenplay Justin Kuritzkes Length 2h 11m Starring Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, Zendaya, Darnell Appling MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Interpersonal drama on the tennis court shows the extent to which Challengers tries to twist the narrative threads into a constantly shifting power play between three unlikely competitors.…

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Rating Director Merling Crossingham, Nick Park Screenplay Mark Burton, Nick Park Length 1h 22m Starring Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, Muzz Khan MPAA Rating PG Original Preview Click Here Review Twenty years after the adventures in Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Oscar-winning duo…

Memoir of a Snail Rating Director Adam Elliot Screenplay Adam Elliot Length 1h 35m Starring Jacki Weaver, Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Saxon Wright, Dominique Pinon, Selena Brennan, Adam Elliot, Paul Capsis, Davey Thompson, Braiden Asciak, Bernie Clifford, Alexander Esenarro, Nick Cave, Magda Szubanski MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Australian creatives have a…

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Rating Director George Miller Screenplay George Miller, Nick Lathouris Length 2h 28m Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov, Lachy Hulme, John Howard, Angus Sampson, Charlee Fraser, Elsa Pataky, Nathan Jones, Josh Helman, David Feld, Rahel Romahn, David Collins, Goran D. Kleut MPAA Rating R Original…

The Substance Rating Director Coralie Fargeat Screenplay Coralie Fargeat Length 2h 21m Starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton Clark, Gore Abrams, Oscar Lesage, Christian Erickson, Robin Greer MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review To make a film about ageism in Hollywood, you must invariably make your film outside Hollywood. The…

Anora Rating Director Sean Baker Screenplay Sean Baker Length 2h 19m Starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Aleksei Serebryakov, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Where is the line between representation and exploitation. Anora comes down on one side of the line but only…

97th Oscar-Nominated Shorts (Documentary) Death by Numbers (Short Film) Rating Director Kim A. Snyder Screenplay Sam Fuentes Length 33m Starring None MPAA Rating Not Rated Review In 2018, a school shooter killed 17 students and injured 18 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This short film follows the story of one…