World Trade Center (2006)
Oliver Stone (U Turn, JFK) is no stranger to controversy, and making World Trade Center only five years after many Americans had witnessed the most disturbing sight in their lifetimes certainly ripped open wounds in the...
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Dirty Harry (1971)
“Dirty” Harry Callahan (Eastwood, Kelly’s Heroes) is among the most disgruntled of San Francisco’s police force. He doesn’t like the fact that criminals seem to have more rights afforded to them than their victims. Now a...
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
If you were to hear the central premise of Little Miss Sunshine without having ever seen a preview, you’d probably dismiss it as just another knock-off of National Lampoon’s Vacation series, and choose to ignore it. Don’t. While...
The Lost Boys (1987)
Lucy Emerson (Wiest) is a divorced mother of two teenage sons, Michael (Patric) and Sam (Haim), who relocates to the strange oceanside California town of Santa Carla, which is filled with a mix of punk...
Brick (2005)
First-time writer-director Rian Johnson’s script for Brick was written shortly after film school in the mid-1990s, during a period when he had read just about any Dashiell Hammett book he could get his hands on. ...
Wing Commander (1999)
No, the title doesn’t refer to the guy that takes the chicken wings out of the fryer at KFC, although if they can call a Subway employee a “Sandwich Artist” or a Starbucks employee...
Adrift (2006) | aka Open Water 2
Three couples and a baby go out for a weekend cruise on a luxurious yacht but make the mistake of all getting into the ocean without lowering the ladder that allows them the get...
21 Eyes (2003) | aka: Replay
21 Eyes is a high-concept thriller told almost entirely from the perspective of twenty-one security video cameras capturing the events revolving around a botched robbery attempt of a priceless diamond at the home of a...
The Island (1980)
You can lead Michael Caine (Dressed to Kill, The Italian Job) to water, but you can’t make him act. At least, if the films he’s done anywhere near it is any indication. You think he...
Lady in the Water (2006)
Although M. Night Shyamalan is a very talented writer and director, his films are becoming progressively more ambitious, and unfortunately, progressively tricky to suspend disbelief in. Lady in the Water is his most ambitious film yet,...