Men in Black: International (2019)
Although the original Men in Black trilogy had mostly run out of ideas, not in its third film, but halfway through its first, Hollywood is never one to leave a once-popular franchise dormant for long,...
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Excalibur (1981)
Co-scripted and directed by John Boorman, made after failing to get his intended very adult take on Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” films made into one movie, Excalibur offers up an ambitious, brutally violent take on...
Silence (2016)
Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel provides the basis for Martin Scorsese’s (The Wolf of Wall Street, Hugo) adaptation set in the 17th Century, regarding a couple of Portuguese missionaries, Father Sebastian Rodrigues (Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge) and Father Francisco...
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
Set in the fictional town of Old Stump, Arizona in 1882, Seth MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a skittish sheep farmer who has been recently dumped by his beloved girlfriend Louise (Seyfried), who quickly...
The LEGO Movie (2014)
If I could get the featured earworm ditty, “Everything is Awesome” to stop cycling incessantly in my head, I’d be able to put my imaginative mind to better use at this moment. Reviews don’t...
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Phantom Menace marks the first new Star Wars theatrical feature in over 15 years, and it seems the fans that watched the earlier films as children have now grown up to adulthood. As a consequence, not...
The Dead Pool (1988)
The fifth and final Dirty Harry film may not go out with a bang, but it is an amusing and exciting enough cop thriller to please the genre fans. There are no social obstacles to hurdle...
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Based on the 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto tells the strange odyssey of Irish transvestite Patrick Braden (Murphy), abandoned as a baby to an a life of foster care by his mother,...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005)
Sometimes gorgeously realized, this first chapter in a proposed seven-film series, based on their appropriate counterparts in novel form by C.S. Lewis, still falls short in the narrative and dialogue. With fantasy films raking...
Batman Begins (2005)
Easily the best Batman movie made to date (later bested by its sequel), Batman Begins takes an ice-cold franchise and makes it red-hot again by reinventing itself. When we last left the series, Joel Schumacher had run...