Tagged: James Cromwell

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1980s / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Science Fiction

Explorers (1985)

Another Spielberg-ian family film from director Joe Dante, although unlike his previous film, Gremlins, it isn’t produced by Steven Spielberg’s production house, despite it being obviously influenced in its wide-eyed sense of discovery, optimism, and...

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1980s / Comedy / Romance / Science Fiction

The Man with Two Brains (1983)

One of Steve Martin’s (Sgt. Pepper, The Jerk) funniest films, and one which he would co-write.  His third collaboration with writer-director Carl Reiner (The One and Only, Fatal Instinct), The Man with Two Brains casts Martin as renowned...

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2000s / Science Fiction / Thriller

Surrogates (2009)

Surrogates is based on Robert Venditti’s comic book miniseries from 2005, which depicts a futuristic society in which the military has conducted wars through the use of “surrogates”, or humanoid robots that are fully controlled...

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2000s / Comedy / Drama

W. (2008)

A politics hawk like myself will find the premise of W. fascinating above and beyond the merit of its filmmaking value.  Oliver Stone (World Trade Center, U-Turn) has been an uneven director throughout his career, and if...

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2000s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

In this third installment of the popular superhero franchise, Peter Parker (Maguire, Seabiscuit) is all set to pop the question to the love of his life, Mary Jane Watson (Dunst, Marie Antoinette).  Unfortunately, every time he gets...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Based on James Ellroy’s novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand,  as well as how public decisions are dictated by public...

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1980s / Comedy

Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

The inspiration for Revenge of the Nerds came when aspiring screenwriters, story editor Tim Metcalfe and film executive Miguel Tejada-Flores. Tejada-Flores brought in elements of his nerdy father, a Bolivian immigrant who went to Cal...

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2000s / Action / Thriller

The Sum of All Fears (2002)

If you’re intrigued as to how they could scale back Jack Ryan’s age thirty years (going from Harrison Ford to Ben Affleck, you might take an educated guess and suppose The Sum of All Fears is...

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1990s / Drama / Mystery

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Just off the Washington shore, a fisherman is found dead in his own nets with a wound to the head. Murder is suspected and the only suspect is another fisherman, who happens to be...