Category: Film Reviews

Schindler’s List Rating Director Steven Spielberg Screenplay Steven Zaillian (Book by Thomas Keneally) Length 195 min. Starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz MPAA Rating R (For language, some sexuality and actuality violence) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Hundreds of films have been made about the tragedies…

The Silence of the Lambs Rating Director Jonathan Demme Screenplay Ted Tally (Novel by Thomas Harris) Length 118 min. Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review On occasion, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes a Best Picture selection…

Forrest Gump Rating Director Robert Zemeckis Screenplay Eric Roth (Novel by Winston Groom) Length 142 min. Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field MPAA Rating PG-13 (For drug content, some sensuality and war violence) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Proving that you don’t have to be a genius to…

Braveheart Rating Director Mel Gibson Screenplay Randall Wallace Length 177 min. Starring Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley, Alan Tall, Andrew Weir, Gerda Stevenson, Brian Cox, Sophie Morceau, Stephen Billington, Angus Macfadyen, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson, Tommy Flangan MPAA Rating R (For brutal medieval warfare) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster…

Driving Miss Daisy Rating Director Bruce Beresford Screenplay Alfred Uhry (Play by Alfred Uhry) Length 99 min. Starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone, Esther Rolle, Joanne Havrilla, William Hall Jr. MPAA Rating PG Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Bonds of friendship develop between a cantankerous old Jewish woman and her…

Shakespeare in Love Rating Director John Madden Screenplay Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard Length 123 min. Starring Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Martin Clunes, Jim Carter, Judi Dench, Mark Williams, Simon Callow, Steve O’Donnell, Tim McMullen, Steven Beard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Imelda Staunton, Colin Firth, Sandra Reinton, Nicholas Boulton, Jill Baker, Nicholas Le Prevost, Ben Affleck…

Rain Man Rating Director Barry Levinson Screenplay Barry Morrow, Ronald Bass Length 133 min. Starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, John Murdock, Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review As we grow up, anything outside the normal is considered foreign…

The Last Emperor Rating Director Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci (Autobiography by Henry Pu-yi) Length 160 min. Starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Wu Jun Mei (Vivian Wu), Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Richard Vuu, Tijger Tsou, Wu Tao MPAA Rating PG-13…

American Beauty Rating Director Sam Mendes Screenplay Alan Ball Length 122 min. Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Scot Bakula, Sam Robards, Barry Del Sherman MPAA Rating R (For strong sexuality, language, violence and drug content) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review The typical male…

The Best    |    The Worst    |    The Individual Best The Best Some year’s, it’s hard to get really worked up about a lot of films. While I have a great deal of respect for many films this year and believe quite a few are extremely well made and affecting, I don’t quite feel over-the-head excited…

Platoon Rating Director Oliver Stone Screenplay Oliver Stone Length 120 min. Starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Reggie Johnson, Keith David, Johnny Depp, David Neidorf, Mark Moses, Christ Pedersen MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review It was a trouble time. The…

Out of Africa Rating Director Sydney Pollack Screenplay Kurt Luedtke (Books by Karen Blixen (credited under her pseudonym Isak Dinesen), Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman, Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinzki) Length 150 min. Starring Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens, Joseph Thiaka, Stephen Kinyanjui,…

Amadeus Rating Director Milos Forman Screenplay Peter Shaffer (Play by Peter Shaffer) Length 160 min. Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay MPAA Rating R Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review When one sits down to a biopic, it is expected that historical…

A Beautiful Mind Rating Director Ron Howard Screenplay Akiva Goldsman (Book by Sylvia Nasar) Length 135 min. Starring Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Vivien Cardone, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, Christopher Plummer MPAA Rating PG-13 (For intense thematic material, sexual content and a scene of violence) Buy/Rent Movie Poster…

Gladiator Rating Director Ridley Scott Screenplay David H. Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson Length 155 min. Starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, David Schofield, John Shrapnel MPAA Rating R (For intense, graphic combat) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Freedom can be given, but it usually has…