Dark Waters (2019)
Dark Waters is a film based on the true story of a corporate lawyer who ends up taking on DuPont Chemical. The origin of the screenplay originated from a Nathaniel Rich expose on attorney Rob...
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Certain Women (2016)
Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves, Meek’s Cutoff), Certain Women offers three tangentially connected stories, inspired by three separate short works by Meile Meloy, delving deeply into the emotional lives of several women, tapping into...
About Time (2013)
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young London lawyer named Tim Lake, whose recent heart-to-heart birthday chat with his usually undemonstrative father (Nighy) reveals an astonishing secret. It seems that men in their family line have...
Cape Fear (1991)
Martin Scorsese’s lucrative follow-up to Goodfellas sees the director in more of an experimental mood, and the result is intriguing, beguiling and frustrating at the same time. It’s a remake of a noir-ish 1962 thriller starring...
The Change-Up (2011)
Body-swap comedies are relatively predictable, and yet, if the comedians are gifted and the situations inspired, a winning comedy can still be made from the oft-used premise. The only thing that sets it apart...
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Gibson plays cabbie Jerry Fletcher, a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist, who finds government involvement in nearly everything, including assassinations, constant surveillance, and even water pipes breaking in the middle of the city. In addition, Jerry...
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Two Weeks Notice is a romantic comedy cut in half. As a comedy, it is quite funny, much more so than the other notable genre flick, Maid in Manhattan, and also has stars with much more appeal. ...
High Crimes (2002)
For all her attempts, I wonder if Ashley Judd will ever star in a good thriller sometime in her career. Kiss the Girls, Eye of the Beholder, and Double Jeopardy have started a string of mediocre and predictable...
A Few Good Men (1992)
Obviously, I will be in the minority of people who don’t think A Few Good Men is a great movie worthy of an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Personally, I find the direction by Rob...
The Winslow Boy (1999)
Set in early 1900s England, The Winslow Boy follows the Winslow family, who are distress to find that the young 14-year-old Winslow boy has been thrown out of the royal naval academy for stealing a postal...