Category: Film Reviews

2023 Oscar-Nominated Shorts These short films are available in a program from Shorts.TV, releasing theatrically. Rating Director Tal Kantor (Letter to a Pig); Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess (Ninety-Five Senses); Yegane Moghaddam (Our Uniform); Stéphanie Clément (Pachyderme); Dave Mullins (War Is Over); Misan Harriman (After); Vincent René-Lortie (Invincible); Lasse Lyskjær Noer (Knight of Fortune); Nazrin Choudhury…

All of Us Strangers Rating Director Andrew Haigh Screenplay Andrew Haigh Length 1h 45m Starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Grief can be a powerful emotion that lingers long after the loss that spawned it. All of Us Strangers explores how…

Poor Things Rating Director Yorgos Lanthimos Screenplay Tony McNamara Length 2h 21m Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Kathryn Hunter, Jerrod Carmichael, Hanna Schygulla, Margaret Qualley, Vicki Pepperdine MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here Review Life is strange and then there’s Poor Things. Set in a steampunk world of…

The Boy and the Heron Rating Director Hayao Miyazaki Screenplay Hayao Miyazaki Length 2h 04m Starring Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kou Shibasaki, Aimyon, Yoshino Kimura, Takuya Kimura MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here Review Japanese culture and spiritually have always provided a potent well from which Hayao Miyazaki draws his filmic inspiration. The Boy…

Oppenheimer Rating Director Christopher Nolan Screenplay Christopher Nolan Length 3h 00m Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Benny Safdie, Jason Clarke, Dylan Arnold, Tom Conti, James D’Arcy, David Dastmalchian, Dane DeHaan, Tony Goldwyn, Jefferson Hall, David Krumholtz, Matthew Modine,…

The Color Purple Rating Director Blitz Bazawaule Screenplay Marcus Gardley (Musical: Marsha Norman; Novel: Alice Walker) Length 2h 20m Starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, Halle Bailey, Ciara, Gabriella Wilson ‘H.E.R.’, David Alan Grier, Deon Cole, Jon Batiste, Louis Gossett Jr. MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview…

The Holdovers Rating Director Alexander Payne Screenplay David Hemingson Length 2h 13m Starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia MPAA Rating R Original Preview Click Here

The Marvels Rating Director Nia DaCosta Screenplay Nia DaCosta, Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik Length 1h 45m Starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Seo-Jun Park, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, Leila Farzad, Abraham Popoola, Daniel Ings MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here

Barbie Rating Director Greta Gerwig Screenplay Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach Length 1h 54m Starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell, Helen Mirren MPAA Rating PG-13 Original Preview Click Here

Shock Treatment Rating Director Jim Sharman Screenplay Richard O’Brien, Jim Sharman Length 1h 34m Starring Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Charles Gray, Ruby Wax, Nell Campbell, Rik Mayall, Marry Humphries MPAA Rating PG

The Rocky Horror Picture Show Rating Director Jim Sharman Screenplay Jim Sharman, Richard O’Brien (Play: Richard O’Brien) Length 1h 40m Starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meatloaf, Charles Gray MPAA Rating R

Death on the Nile Rating Director John Guillermin Screenplay Anthony Shaffer (Novel: Agatha Christie) Length 2h 20m Starring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Jon Finch, Olivia Hussey, I.S. Johar, George Kennedy, Angela Lansbury, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Jack Warden, Harry Andrews, Sam Wanamaker MPAA Rating PG

Murder on the Orient Express Rating Director Sidney Lumet Screenplay Paul Dehn (Novel: Agatha Christie) Length 2h 08m Starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Roberts, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Colin Blakely, George Coulouris, Denis Quilley, Vernon…

And Then There Were None (TV) Rating Director Craig Viveiros Screenplay Sarah Phelps Length 2h 55m Starring Maeve Dermody, Charles Dance, Toby Stephens, Burn Gorman, Aidan Turner, Harley Gallacher, Miranda Richardson, Paul Chahidi, Sam Neill, Charlie Russell, Noah Taylor, Tom Clegg MPAA Rating Not Rated

Ten Little Indians Rating Director Alan Birkinshaw Screenplay Jackson Hunsicker, Gerry O’Hara Length 1h 40m Starring Donald Pleasance, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom, Sarah Maur Thorp, Warren Berlinger, Yehuda Efroni, Neil McCarthy, Moira Lister, Paul L. Smith MPAA Rating PG