Category: Film Reviews

Gone Baby Gone Rating Director Ben Affleck Screenplay Ben Affleck, Aaron Stockard (Novel by Dennis Lahane) Length 114 min. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, John Ashton, Amy Ryan, Amy Madigan, Titus Welliver, Michael Kenneth Williams, Edi Gathegi, Mark Margolis, Madeline O’Brien MPAA Rating R (for violence, drug content and pervasive language)…

Eastern Promises Rating Director David Cronenberg Screenplay Steve Knight Length 100 min. Starring Naomi Watts, Sinead Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl MPAA Rating R (for strong brutal and bloody violence, some graphic sexuality, language and nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review After the blood bath of A History of Violence, David…

Margot at the Wedding Rating Director Noah Baumbach Screenplay Noah Baumbach Length 91 min. Starring Zane Pais, Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, Flora Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Seth Barrish, Matthew Arkin, Ciaran Hinds, Halley Feiffer, John Turturro MPAA Rating R (for sexual content and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Recrimination, discovery and mental abuse are…

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Rating Director Julian Schnabel Screenplay Ronald Harwood (Novel: Jean-Dominique Bauby) Length 112 min. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Jose Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Olatz Lopez Garmendia, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marina Hands, Max von Sydow MPAA Rating PG-13 (for nudity, sexual content and some language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster…

The Golden Compass Rating Director Chris Weitz Screenplay Chris Weitz (Novel “Northern Lights” by Philip Pullman) Length 113 min. Starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen, Eva Green, Jim Carter, Tom Courtenay, Ian McShane, Sam Elliott, Christopher Lee, Kristin Scott Thomas, Kathy Bates MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sequences…

The Orphanage Rating Director Juan Antonio Bayona Screenplay Sergio G. Sanchez Length 100 min. Starring Beln Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Prncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andrs Gertrdix, Edgar Vivar, scar Casas, Mireia Renau, Georgina Avellaneda, Carla Gordillo Alicia, Alejandro Campos, Carmen Lpez, scar Lara, Geraldine Chaplin, Carol Surez MPAA Rating R (for some disturbing content)…

Zodiac Rating Director David Fincher Screenplay James Vanderbilt (Book: Robert Graysmith) Length 158 min. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chlo Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, Philip Baker Hall MPAA Rating R (for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual images.) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Rating Director Tim Burton Screenplay John Logan (Musical: Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler; Play: Christopher Bond) Length 116 min. Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders MPAA Rating R (For graphic bloody…

National Treasure: Book of Secrets Rating Director Jon Turtletaub Screenplay The Wibberleys (Cormac & Marianne), Gregory Poirier, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio Length 124 min. Starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Michael Maize, Timothy V. Murphy MPAA Rating PG (for some violence and…

The Lookout Rating Director Scott Frank Screenplay Scott Frank Length 99 min. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Bruce McGill, Alberta Watson, Alex Borstein, Sergio Di Zio, David Huband MPAA Rating R (for language, some violence and sexual content) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The screenwriter of Out of Sight has…

Away from Her Rating Director Sarah Polley Screenplay Sarah Polley (Short Story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro) Length 110 min. Starring Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Olympia Dukakis, Stacey LaBerge, Deanna Dezmari, Clare Coulter, Thomas Hauff, Alberta Watson MPAA Rating PG-13 Buy/Rent Movie Poster Source Material Review An achingly tender portrait of…

Once Rating Director John Carney Screenplay John Carney Length 85 min. Starring Glen Hansard, Markta Irglov, Alaistair Foley, Kaet Haugh, Senan Haugh, Gerard Hendrick, Bill Hodnett, Danuse Ktrestova, Geoff Minogue, Hugh Walsh Mal Whyte MPAA Rating R (for language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review One of the year’s best musicals hardly feels like one. Once…

Waitress Rating Director Adrienne Shelly Screenplay Adrienne Shelly Length 108 min. Starring Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexual content, language and thematic elements) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review A gifted pie maker dreams of what her life might be like if…

Juno Rating Director Jason Reitman Screenplay Diablo Cody Length 92 min. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby MPAA Rating PG-13 (for mature thematic material, sexual content and language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review A film sometimes too precious for its own good, Juno turns a girl’s…

There Will Be Blood Rating Director Paul Thomas Anderson Screenplay Paul Thomas Anderson (Novel: Oil! by Upton Sinclair) Length 158 min. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin J. O’Connor, Ciaran Hinds, Dillon Freasier, Barry Del Sherman, Russell Harvard, Harrison Taylor, Stockton Taylor, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Dano, Sydney McCallister, David Willis, Christine Oleiniczak, Kellie Hill, James Downey,…