Tagged: Matthew McConaughey

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2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)

Kubo and the Two Strings is the fourth, and arguably the best, of the big screen releases from the Oregon-based, mainly stop-motion animation studio, LAIKA Entertainment. It’s the first to be directed by that company’s...

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2010s / Comedy / Drama / Thriller

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Martin Scorsese (Shutter Island, Shine A Light) directs the Terence Winter (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, “Boardwalk Empire”) adaptation of the best-selling memoir from multimillionaire stock broker Jordan Belfort, turning it into the closest thing...

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2010s / Drama / Science Fiction

Contact (1997)

In 1975, acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola developed a project for CTW Productions, a subsidiary of the Children’s Television Workshop, for a 3-to-5-hour television event written, directed, and produced by Coppola to air on...

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2010s / Adventure / Drama / Thriller

Mud (2012)

Writer-director Jeff Nichols continues to impress with his character-driven pieces, and, coming after the acclaimed Take Shelter, Mud is sure to put his name even higher on many a film buff’s list of directors to follow. At...

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1990s / Comedy / Drama

Dazed and Confused (1993)

While watching Richard Linklater’s (Before Sunset, The School of Rock) semi-autobiographical homage to his high school days in Dazed and Confused, it’s almost impossible not to think about another film that similarly captured the essence of...

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2000s / Drama / Sports

We Are Marshall (2006)

On the evening of November 14, 1970, an airplane crashed near an airport in West Virginia, killing all 75 passengers on board.  Among the passengers were the majority of the Marshall University football team...

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2000s / Comedy / Romance

Failure to Launch (2006)

Here’s a movie title that practically writes my review for me.  Interminably silly, Failure to Launch is a go-with-the-flow kind of comedy that has its share of laughs and smart ideas, and yet, sometimes it...

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2000s / Drama / Thriller

Two for the Money (2005)

Arresting but inherently flawed, Two for the Money engages with quality performances, particularly by Pacino, and yet, it’s still too bombastic in its delivery to ever take seriously enough to leave any lasting impression.  In...

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2000s / Action / Adventure

Sahara (2005)

I’ve read exactly one of Clive Cussler’s seventeen novels in the Dirk Pitt series, and chances are, I’ll never read any of the other sixteen.  If I were a book critic, I’d elaborate more,...

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2000s / Drama

13 Conversations About One Thing (2001)

Whenever we’re down, there’s usually someone who will like to say that happiness is just around the corner.  THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING takes a more pessimistic approach, because by the same token, whenever we’re happy,...