Category: Film Reviews

Local Color Rating Director George Gallo Screenplay George Gallo Length 107 min. Starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Trevor Morgan, Ray Liotta, Charles Durning, Samantha Mathis, Ron Perlman, Diana Scarwid, Julie Lott MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Review Growing and developing as an artist is not an easy task. Through torment, joy and other emotions,…

Max Payne Rating Director John Moore Screenplay Beau Thorne (Video Game by Remedy Entertainment and 3-D Realms Entertainment, Created by Sam Lake) Length 100 min. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Chris O’Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kyrlenko, Rothaford Gray, Joel Gordon, Jamie Hector, Andrew Friedman, Marianthi Evans,…

City of Ember Rating Director Gil Kenan Screenplay Caroline Thompson (Book by Jeanne Duprau) Length 95 min. Starring Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Toby Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Mary Kay Place, Liz Smith, Amy Quinn, Catherine Quinn, Martin Landau, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mackenzie Crook MPAA Rating PG for mild peril and some thematic elements Buy/Rent Movie…

Blindness Rating Director Fernando Meirelles Screenplay Don McKellar (Novel by Jose Saramago) Length 120 min. Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Don McKellar, Maury Chaykin, Mitchell Nye, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Susan Coyne, Sandra Oh MPAA Rating R for violence including sexual assaults, language and sexuality/nudity. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…

Eagle Eye Rating Director D.J. Caruso Screenplay John Glenn, Travis Adam Wright, Hillary Seitz, Dan McDermott Length 118 min. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Michael Chiklis, Anthony Mackie, Ethan Embry, Billy Bob Thornton, Julianne Moore (uncredited), Anthony Azizi, Cameron Boyce, Lynn Cohen, Bill Smitrovich, Charles Carroll, William Sadler MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense…

Starting Out in the Evening Rating Director Andrew Wagner Screenplay Fred Barnes, Andrew Wagner (Novel by Brian Morton) Length 111 min. Starring Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester, Jessica Hecht, Michael Cumpsty MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexual content, language and brief nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review What amounts to little…

The Savages Rating Director Tamara Jenkins Screenplay Tamara Jenkins Length 113 min. Starring Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Cara Seymour, Tonye Patano, Guy Boyd, Debra Monk, Rosemary Murphy, Hal Blankenship, Joan Jaffe MPAA Rating R (for some sexuality and language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review The painful decision…

The Namesake Rating Director Mira Nair Screenplay Sooni Taraporevala (Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri) Length 122 min. Starring Irfan Khan, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu, Kal Penn, Sahira Nair, Zuleikha Robinson, Glenne Headly, Daniel Gerroll, Jacinda Barrett MPAA Rating PG-13 (for sexuality/nudity, a scene of drug use, some disturbing images and brief language) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster…

A Mighty Heart Rating Director Michael Winterbottom Screenplay John Orloff (Book: Mariane Pearl) Length 108 min. Starring Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Saira Khan, Aliya Khan, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O’Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah…

What Would Jesus Buy? Rating Director Rob VanAlkemade Screenplay None Length 90 min. Starring None MPAA Rating PG (for thematic material and brief mild language) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review Have you ever wondered what Jesus would have thought about the current commercialization of his name? What Would Jesus Buy? puts the viewer alongside Reverend Billy…

Into the Wild Rating Director Sean Penn Screenplay Sean Penn (Book by Jon Krakauer) Length 140 min. Starring Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Krisetn Stewart, Hal Holbrook MPAA Rating R (for language and some nudity) Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review If you ever…

The Nines Rating Director John August Screenplay John August Length 100 min. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis, Elle Fanning, David Denman, Octavia Spencer MPAA Rating R (for language, some drug content and sexuality) Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review In a vanity project to be sure, screenwriter John August debuts as helmer to bring his…

Knocked Up Rating Director Judd Apatow Screenplay Judd Apatow Length 129 min. Starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jason Segel, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Martin Starr, Charlyne Yi, Maude Apatow, Joanna Kerns, Harold Ramis, Alan Tudyk, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Ken Jeong MPAA Rating R (for sexual content, drug use and language)…

Cloverfield Rating Director Matt Reeves Screenplay Drew Goddard Length 85 min. Starring Lizzy Caplan, Jesscia Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman MPAA Rating PG-13 for violence, terror and disturbing images. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Blending horror film and monster movie into one bubbling concoction, producer J.J. Abrams delivers an uneven picture…

Across the Universe Rating Director Julie Taymor Screenplay Julie Taymor, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais Length 133 min. Starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, T.V. Carpio, Spencer Liff, Lisa Hogg, Nicholas Lumley, Michael Ryan, Angela Mounsey, Dylan Baker, Robert Clohessy MPAA Rating PG-13 (for some drug content, nudity,…