Hangover Part II, The (Review)
HANGOVER PART II, THE (5/26/11; Comedy) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jeffrey Tambor, Jamie Chung, Bryan Callen, Mason Lee SCR: Todd Phillips, Scot Armstrong, Craig Mazin DIR: Todd Phillips MPAA: R for pervasive language, strong sexual content including graphic nudity, drug use and brief violent images. 1 hour 42 mins “Part II” suggests a continuation, an ongoing tale with new details that...
Hanna (Review)
HANNA (4/08/11; Action, Thriller) Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Jessica Barden, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams SCR: David Farr, Seth Lochhead DIR: Joe Wright MPAA: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual material and language. 1 hour 51 mins BOX: $44,953,470 Ronan adds a pulse and blue-eyed soul to this thrilling tale of 16-year-old raised by her father Erik (Bana) in isolation and trained to be a...
Happythankyoumoreplease (Review)
HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE (3/04/11; Comedy, Drama) Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Tony Hale, Josh Radnor, Pablo Schreiber SCR/DIR: Josh Radnor MPAA: Rated R for language. 1 hour 40 mins BOX: $216,110 At first glance, it seems as if this New York-based comedy about an ensemble of twentysomethings would be the kind of Woody Allen knockoff that burned itself out in the 90s. But this first film from writer-director...
Harry Brown (Review)
HARRY BROWN (4/30/10; Crime Thriller) Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Ben Drew, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Jack O’Connell, Liam Cunningham SCR: Gary Young DIR: Daniel Barber MPAA: R for strong violence and language throughout, drug use and sexual content. 1 hour 43 mins BOX: $1,818,681 Caine channels his inner Charles Bronson in this lean, mean vigilante flick that finds the old man dismayed his old neighborhood – a...
Heat, The (Review)
HEAT, THE (6/28/13; Action Comedy) Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Rapaport, Marlon Wayans, Tony Hale, Dan Bakkedahl, Michael McDonald, Taran Killam, Nathan Corddry, Demián Bichir SCR: Katie Dippold DIR: Paul Feig 1 hour 57 mins MPAA: R for pervasive language, strong crude content and some violence. (20th Century Fox) Paul Feig’s instincts about what makes something funny are not in question. This is the man who has...
Henry’s Crime (Review)
HENRY’S CRIME (4/08/11; Crime, Comedy) Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, James Caan, Judy Greer, Peter Stormare, Fisher Stevens, Bill Duke SCR: Sacha Gervasi, David N. White DIR: Malcolm Venville MPAA: R for language. 1 hour 48 mins BOX: $173,194 Henry (Reeves) is a laid-back toll-booth worker in Buffalo, New York, under pressure to have a baby with wife Greer. He gets out of the conversation when shady pals show up for a “softball...
Hereafter (Review)
HEREAFTER (10/15/10; Drama, Fantasy) Matt Damon, Cécile de France, Frankie McLaren, George McLaren, Lyndsey Marshal, Thierry Neuvic, Bryce Dallas Howard SCR: Peter Morgan DIR: Clint Eastwood MPAA: PG-13 for mature thematic elements including disturbing disaster and accident images, and for brief strong language. 2 hours 9 mins BOX: $32,746,941 George (Damon) is an American factory worker with the gift (curse) of being able to...
Hole, The (Review)
HOLE, THE (9/22/10; Fantasy, Thriller) Teri Polo, Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Bruce Dern, Nathan Gamble, Quinn Lord SCR: Mark L. Smith DIR: Joe Dante MPAA: Rated PG-13 for frightening images, violence and some language. 1 hour 38 mins BOX: $4,548,047 (UK Only) For about 15 years, Dante was the court jester of a Hollywood in which Spielberg was king. His movies often combined horror with comedy to great effect. Very few directors...
Holy Rollers (Review)
HOLY ROLLERS (5/21/10; Drama) Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Danny Abeckaser, Q-Tip, Jason Fuchs, Hallie Kate Eisenberg SCR: Antonio Macia DIR: Kevin Asch MPAA: R for drug content and language throughout, and brief sexual material. 1 hour 29 mins BOX: $303,064 Sam Gold (Eisenberg) is a young Hasid from an Orthodox Brooklyn community working for his father and waiting for an arranged marriage to happen. To say that his...
Hot Tub Time Machine (Review)
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (3/26/10; Comedy, Fantasy) John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Chevy Chase, Sebastian Stan, Lyndsy Fonseca, Collette Wolfe SCR: Josh Heald and Sean Anders & John Morris DIR: Steve Pink MPAA: R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language. 1 hour 33 mins BOX: $50,287,556 Three sorry middle-aged guys (Cusack, Coddry and Robinson,...
How Do You Know (Review)
HOW DO YOU KNOW (12/17/10; Romantic Comedy) Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson SCR/DIR: James L. Brooks MPAA: PG-13 for sexual content and some strong language. 1 hour 56 mins BOX: $30,212,620 Witherspoon is a career softball player kicked off the team because she’s 31. Rudd is a recently-dumped financial whiz being set up by his bastard tycoon father (Nicholson) to take a legal fall. After a blind date with...
How to Train Your Dragon (Review)
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (3/26/10; Adventure, Fantasy; 3D) Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller SCR/DIR: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois; based on the book by Cressida Cowell MPAA: PG for Sequences of intense action and some scary images, and brief mild language. 1 hour 38 mins BOX: $217,387,195 Engaging and very funny CGI-animated adventure pulls off...
Howl (Review)
HOWL (9/24/10; Drama) James Franco, Aaron Tveit, Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Mary-Louise Parker, Jon Prescott, Alessandro Nivola, Bob Balaban, Jeff Daniels, Treat Williams SCR/DIR: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman MPAA: R for strong sexual content including language and images, and for some drug material. 1 hour 25 mins BOX: $617,334 This experimental film takes Allen Ginsberg’s iconic beat poem “Howl” and uses it as a framework to tell...
Human Centipede, The (Review)
HUMAN CENTIPEDE, THE [FIRST SEQUENCE] (4/28/10; Horror) Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura SCR/DIR: Tom Six MPAA: Unrated 1 hour 32 mins It’s been called the most disgusting movie ever made. I don’t know, I can think of a few that are worse, but you have to give writer-director Six some credit here for originality. How many films can claim to be about a mad doctor who surgically joins three victims...
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