Category: Film Reviews

Cemetery High Rating Director Gorman Bechard Screenplay Gorman Bechard, Carmine Capobianco Length 1h 20m Starring Debi Thibeault, Karen Nielsen, Lisa Schmidt, Simone Reyes, Ruth Collins, Tony Kruk, Diavd Coughlin, Frank Stewart, Kristine Waterman, Carmine Capobianco, Donna Davidge, Michael Citriniti, Tony Giglio MPAA Rating R Review It’s impossible to define the era of horror output that…

The Poseidon Adventure Rating Director Ronald Neame Screenplay Stirling Silliphant, Wendell Mayes (Novel: Paul Gallico) Length 1h 57m Starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, Pamela Sue Martin, Arthur O’Connell, Eric Shea, Fred Sadoff MPAA Rating PG Review Disaster movies had already taken place on…

The Wiz Rating Director Sidney Lumet Screenplay Joel Schumacher (Novel: L. Frank Baum; Musical Book: William F. Brown) Length 2h 14m Starring Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Mabel King, Theresa Merritt, Thelma Carpenter, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Stanley Greene MPAA Rating G Review Although the movie musical had slowly faded into the…

The Towering Inferno Rating Director John Guillermin Screenplay Stirling Silliphant (Novel: Richard Martin Stern, Thomas N Scortia, Frank M. Robinson) Length 2h 45m Starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Sheila Mathews, Normann Burton, Jack Collins MPAA…

Face/Off Rating Director John Woo Screenplay Mike Werb, Michael Colleary Length 2h 18m Starring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Sqain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, CCH Pounder, Robert Wisdom, Margaret Cho MPAA Rating R Review While action films had been a cottage industry for Hollywood…

9 to 5 Rating Director Colin Higgins Screenplay Patricia Resnick, Colin Higgins Length 1h 49m Starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden, Elizabeth Wilson, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman, Marian Mercer, Ren Woods MPAA Rating PG Review When you take two of the greatest working actors and put them together with a…

Thoroughly Modern Millie Rating Director George Roy Hill Screenplay Richard Morris Length 2h 18m Starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin, Jack Soo, Pat Morita, Philip Ahn, Anthony Dexter, Cavada Humphrey MPAA Rating G Review Hollywood was keen to adapt as many successful Broadway musicals as it could but Universal…

Mrs. Brown Rating Director John Madden Screenplay Jeremy Brock Length 1h 41m Starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Sher, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, David Westhead, Bridget McConnell, Georgie Glen, Catherine O’Donnell MPAA Rating PG Review Although its premise is hotly debated, Mrs. Brown explores the relationship between Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant…

Carrie Rating Director Brian De Palma Screenplay Lawrence D. Cohen (Novel: Stephen King) Length 1h 38m Starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, P.J. Soles, Priscilla Pointer, Sydney Lassick, Stefan Gierasch, Michael Talbott MPAA Rating R Review Toxic high school experiences are par for the course in…

Bedknobs and Broomsticks Rating Director Robert Stevenson Screenplay Ralph Wright, Ted Berman, Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi (Book: Mary Norton) Length 1h 57m Starring Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson, Bruce Forsyth, Cindy O’Callaghan, Roy Snart, Ian Weighill, Tessie O’Shea, Arthur E. Gould-Porter MPAA Rating G Review Disney was at the vanguard…

Beaches Rating Director Garry Marshall Screenplay Mary Agnes Donoghue (Novel: Iris Rainer Dart) Length 2h 03m Starring Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan, James Read, Grace Johnston, Mayim Bialik, Marcie Leeds, Carol Williard MPAA Rating PG-13 Review There was a pulp trashiness to the 1980s that was epitomized in the success…

Z Rating Director Costa-Gavras Screenplay Jorge Semprun (Novel: Vassili Vassilikos) Length 2h 07m Starring Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francois Perier, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, Pierre Dux, George Geret, Bernard Fresson, Marcel Bozzufi MPAA Rating M/PG Review Political unrest and anti-democratic actions surround the events in Z, a political drama that parallels the myriad…

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…