Movie Reviews

Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 8/8/2007
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Fred Savage
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Paul Rae, Lochlyn Munro, Richard Gant, Spencir Bridges, Josh McLerran, Talon G. Ackerman, Tamala Jones, Brian Doyle-Murray and Taggart Hurtubise
Producer: Chris Emerson
Writer: David N. Weiss
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Genre:  Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 8/10/2007
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Vinnie Jones, Hiroyuki Sanada, Noémie Lenoir, Max von Sydow, Yvan Attal, Sun Ming Ming, Roselyn Sanchez and Youki Kudoh
Producer: Arthur Sarkissian, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman and Jay Stern
Writer: Jeff Nathanson and Ross LaManna
Distributor: New Line Cinema

Long ago there reigned a clan of Speedo-wearing militaristic psychopaths called the Spartans. They lived beneath a copper-colored sky, on a copper-colored land, amid copper-colored fields, in copper-colored homes made from copper-colored stone.... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  War» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 3/9/2007
Running Time: 117 mins
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, Vincent Regan and Rodrigo Santoro
Producer: Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari, Bernard Goldmann and Jeffrey Silver
Writer: Frank Miller, Kurt Johnstad, Lynn Varley, Michael Gordon and Zack Snyder
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:  Family» Comedy»
Release Date: 10/1/1999
Running Time: 77 mins
Director: Gary Halvorson
Cast: Kevin Clash, Mandy Patinkin and Vanessa L. Williams
Producer: Alex Rockwell and Marjorie Kalins
Writer: Joey Mazzarino and Mitchell Kriegman
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Genre:  Family» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 10/13/2006
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Alex Pettyfer, Stephen Fry, Andy Serkis, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Sophie Okonedo, Ashley Walters and Missi Pyle
Producer: Steve Christian, Andreas Grosch, Marc Samuelson and Peter Samuelson
Writer: Anthony Horowitz
Distributor: Weinstein Company

This is based upon a very short children's book by John Nickle, a beautifully drawn if crudely told tale of a boy named Lucas, who sports Coke-bottle glasses and a propeller skull cap and is picked on by a buzz-cut bully named Sid. Lucas, prone to... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Drama» Animation»
Release Date: 7/28/2006
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: John A. Davis
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alan Cumming, Zach Tyler Eisen, Paul Giamatti, Myles Jeffrey, Regina King, Cheri Oteri, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Jake Szymanski
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and John A. Davis
Writer: David Reynolds and John A. Davis
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 4/4/2007
Running Time: 92 mins
Director: Steve Carr
Cast: Ice Cube, Nia Long, John C. McGinley, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden, Jonathan Katz, Linda Kash, Alexander Kalugin, Dan Joffre and Pedro Miguel Arce
Producer: Matt Alvarez, Ted Hartley, Thom Mount and Heidi Santelli
Writer: Hank Nelken
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Will Ferrell, having moved on from the anchor desk and NASCAR, at long last ridicules a more hallowed profession: men's figure skating. Who until now has dared to mock the sequined costumes, the fondness for power ballads, the spandex pants?... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 3/30/2007
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Josh Gordon and Will Speck
Cast: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry and Craig T. Nelson
Producer: Stuart Cornfeld, John Jacobs and Ben Stiller
Writer: Busy Philipps, Craig Cox, David Krinsky, Jeff Cox and John Altschuler
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Here’s what’s up in the third Bourne : Simon Ross (Paddy Considine), “security correspondent” for The London Guardian , has been tipped off to a black-op CIA umbrella program code-named Blackbriar, the mere mention of which on a cell phone flags... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 111 mins
Director: Paul Greengrass
Cast: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Albert Finney, Tom Gallop and Corey Johnson
Producer: Patrick Crowley, Frank Marshall and Paul Sandberg
Writer: Robert Ludlum, Tom Stoppard and Tony Gilroy
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Inspired by the eponymous, semi-skanky dolls that launched a thousand parental protests, this tween comedy does a good job re-branding the Bratz as wholesome do-gooders you'd want to take home to Mom — especially if Mom likes the ethnics, because... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Sean McNamara
Cast: Nathalia Ramos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye, Chelsea Staub, Anneliese Van Der Pol, Malese Jow, Stephen Lunsford, Lainie Kazan and Ian Nelson
Producer: Avi Arad, Steven Paul and Isaac Larian
Writer: John Doolittle and Susan Estelle Jansen
Distributor: Lionsgate Films

Don't be fooled by the CGI-laden, Narnia -lite trailers for Bridge to Terabithia : Far from a computer-generated escapist fantasy, this film is an unpretentious and touching tale of preteen companionship and loss. Terabithia is the story of... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Family» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 2/16/2007
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Gabor Csupo
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel, Lauren Clinton, Bailee Madison and Robert Patrick
Producer: Philip Anschutz, Lauren Levine, Hal Lieberman and David Paterson
Writer: David Paterson, Jeff Stockwell and Katherine Paterson
Distributor: Buena Vista

Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 145 mins
Director: Anubhav Sinha
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, Shamita Shetty, Diya Mirza, Sunil Shetty, Feroz Khan and Soha Ali Khan
Producer: Sohail Maklai
Writer: Yash-Vinay
Distributor: Adlabs Films Ltd.

Breathe easy: Gary Winick's live-action Charlotte's Web does not screw up one of the seminal works of American children's literature. In fact, the film manages to modernize this classic tale without losing the gravity and essential dignity of... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Drama» Animation»
Release Date: 12/15/2006
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Gary Winick
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric The Entertainer, Reba McEntire, Kathy Bates, Thomas Haden Church and Robert Redford
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Writer: E.B. White, Karey Kirkpatrick and Susannah Grant
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

From a 65-year-old franchise comes a palatable, even occasionally fizzy concoction kids will gulp up and their folks won't choke on. There are snippets of classic Curious George stories: George painting a white bedroom in palm-tree greens and... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 2/10/2006
Running Time: 82 mins
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Cast: Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Dick Van Dyke, Ed O'Ross, Joan Plowright, Hailey Noelle Johnson and Nadia Lewis
Producer: Ron Howard, David M. Kirschner and Jon Shapiro
Writer: Ken Kaufman and Mike Werb
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 3/3/2006
Running Time: 40 mins
Director: Howard Hall
Cast: Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet
Producer: Toni Myers and Michele Hall
Writer: 
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Director Leon Ichaso, already responsible for mucking up a made-for-TV Jimi Hendrix biopic, is back at it with this turgid film about salsa star Hector Lavoe (Marc Anthony), which doesn’t go behind the music as much as beneath it. Focusing almost... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Musical» Drama»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 106 mins
Director: Leon Ichaso
Cast: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz and Manny Perez
Producer: Julio Caro, Simon Fields, Jennifer Lopez and David Maldonado
Writer: Leon Ichaso
Distributor: Picturehouse

This sequel to Bruce Almighty is the work of an angry God. A sanctimonious sitcom dolled up as the most expensive comedy ever made — $175 mil, so they say — it marks an unfortunate low point in the history of recent American comedy,... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 6/22/2007
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Tom Shadyac
Cast: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, John Goodman, John Michael Higgins, Jimmy Bennett, Wanda Sykes, Jonah Hill, Graham Phillips and Tom Beyer
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Tom Shadyac, Michael Bostick, Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum
Writer: Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren and Steve Oedekerk
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 3/6/1998
Running Time: 45 mins
Director: David Breashears, Stephen Judson and Greg MacGillivray
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ed Viesturs, Araceli Segarra, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Paula Viesturs and Beck Weathers
Producer: Stephen Judson, Alec Lorimore and Greg MacGillivray
Writer: Tim Cahill and Stephen Judson
Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films

Tactfully credited to Christopher Reeve, this old-fashioned tale of the meek inheriting the earth, or at any rate the outfield, was actually put together after Reeve's death by animators Daniel St. Pierre and Colin Brady, from a story that IDT... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy» Animation» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 9/15/2006
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: Colin Brady and Dan St. Pierre
Cast: Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Dennehy, William H Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Dana Reeve, Robert Wagner, Richard Kind, Raven Symone and Joe Torre
Producer: Ron Tippe and Igor Khait
Writer: Rob Kurtz
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Look! up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a giant silver eunuch on a radioactive surfboard! That’s more or less the gist of this mercifully brief sequel to 2005’s surprise hit about that other band of Marvel mutants, here joined... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» SciFi/Fantasy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 6/15/2007
Running Time: 89 mins
Director: Tim Story
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Doug Jones, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Beau Garrett, Andre Braugher and Moneca Delain
Producer: Michael Barnathan
Writer: Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Genre:  Family» Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 4/4/2007
Running Time: 111 mins
Director: Todd Holland
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Dash Mihok, Steven Culp, Bill Nunn, Bree Turner, Mayte Garcia, Teddy Sears, Scotch Ellis Loring and Claudette Mink
Producer: Michael Colleary and Mike Werb
Writer: Claire-Dee Lim, Michael Colleary and Mike Werb
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

The third collaboration between Britain's Aardman studio and DreamWorks animation, this puckish charmer about a posh Kensington mouse flushed down the loo into London sewer country is to action-adventure what Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 11/3/2006
Running Time: 86 mins
Director: Sam Fell, Henry F Anderson III and David Bowers
Cast: Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Shane Richie, Susan Duerden, Jean Reno and Douglas Weston
Producer: Cecil Kramer, Peter Lord and David Sproxton
Writer: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Distributor: Paramount

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 126 mins
Director: Feroze Khan
Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Bhoomika Chawla, Shefali Shetty, Vinay Jain, Bonnie Lee Bouman, Marion Hind, Natalie Hughes, Daniel Janks, Ilanit Shapiro and Gregg Viljoen
Producer: Anil Kapoor
Writer: Chandulal Dalal and Feroz Khan
Distributor: Eros International

Director-choreographer Adam Shankman's screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical based on John Waters' 1987 “crossover” movie is a faithful record of the stage version, but that’s all it is -- a recording. The story remains the same: In the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Musical» Comedy»
Release Date: 7/20/2007
Running Time: 117 mins
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Allison Janney, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron and Elijah Kelley
Producer: Neil Meron and Craig Zadan
Writer: John Waters, John Waters, Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Distributor: New Line Cinema

The magic has returned to the Harry Potter franchise — albeit magic of the old, black variety. Credit director David Yates, a British television vet — plus a new screenwriter, a new cameraman, a new composer and a new editor —... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 7/11/2007
Running Time: 138 mins
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs and Gary Oldman
Producer: David Heyman and David Barron
Writer: J.K. Rowling and Michael Goldenberg
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Family» Drama»
Release Date: 7/11/2007
Running Time: 138 mins
Director: David Yates
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, Jason Isaacs and Gary Oldman
Producer: David Barron
Writer: J.K. Rowling and Michael Goldenberg
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

The Saturday Night Live comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer — collectively known as the Lonely Island — shot to the heights of YouTube celebrity with their parody music videos (including the immortal “Lazy Sunday").... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 88 mins
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Cast: Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Jorma Taccone, Sissy Spacek, Bill Hader, Sissy Spacek, Ian McShane, Will Arnett, Chris Parnell and Chester Tam
Producer: Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn
Writer: Pam Brady
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Watch the mallrats’ jaws drop as they pay to see the same old teen slicer-dicer, only to get this wacko hodgepodge of the Brian De Palma horror filmography and — I swear to God — Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique . Lindsay Lohan... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller»
Release Date: 7/27/2007
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Chris Sivertson
Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty, Garcelle Beauvais, Spencer Garrett, Gregory Itzin, Bonnie Aarons, Kenya Moore and Thomas Tofel
Producer: Frank Mancuso and Jr
Writer: Jeffrey Hammond
Distributor: TriStar Pictures

I wanted to hate this caper about two straight firefighters (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) pretending to be gay for the benefits. But though stereotypes pour out of the movie like cheap wine -- astonishingly, the screenplay is credited to... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 7/20/2007
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Dan Aykroyd, Richard Chamberlain, Nicholas Turturro, Tila Nguyen and Shelby Adamowsky
Producer: Michael Bostick, James D. Brubaker, Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler and Tom Shadyac
Writer: Barry Fanaro and Lew Gallo
Distributor: Universal Pictures

Genre:  Family»
Release Date: 12/21/2001
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: John Davis
Cast: Debi Derryberry, Rob Paulsen, Patrick Stewart and Martin Short
Producer: Steve Oedekerk and Paul Marshal
Writer: John A Davis and Steve Oedekerk
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

There are first films like Citizen Kane or Breathless , which, as radically new and fully achieved as they are, unfairly overshadow an entire oeuvre. And then there are first films -- perhaps even more radical -- that haunt an artist's career... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 3/30/2007
Running Time: 83 mins
Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry and Jack Drummond
Producer: Charles Burnett
Writer: Charles Burnett
Distributor: Milestone Film

Seth Rogen plays a guy named Ben Stone, who's been stoned most of his adult life. Katherine Heigl, free from the gloomy climes of Seattle Grace Hospital, is Alison Scott, who's been promoted from E! segment producer to on-air talent, goes to a... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 6/1/2007
Running Time: 129 mins
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Katherine Heigl and Jason Segel
Producer: Shauna Robertson, Judd Apatow and Clayton Townsend
Writer: Judd Apatow
Distributor: Universal

Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 6/15/2007
Running Time: 140 mins
Director: Oliver Dahan
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Gerard Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pascal Greggory, Marc Barbé, Caroline Sihol, Emmanuelle Seigner and Catherine Allégret
Producer: Ilan Goldman
Writer: Oliver Dahan
Distributor: Picturehouse

A blitzed-looking man stumbling out of a screening of this dreadful excuse for unromantic comedy volunteered that the best part of the movie was when Robin Williams got socked in the jaw. No argument here, but if you like your Williams spewing... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 7/3/2007
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Ken Kwapis
Cast: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter, DeRay Davis and Rachael Harris
Producer: Nicholas Osborne, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Robert Simonds and Kim Zubick
Writer: Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen, Vince DiMeglio and Wayne Lloyd
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Still an all-American bloodhound after all these years, Bruce Willis’s Det. John McClane begins Live Free or Die Hard sniffing around a Rutgers-Camden parking lot and busting the frat boy who’s been trying to cop a feel off his daughter, Lucy.... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 6/27/2007
Running Time: 130 mins
Director: Len Wiseman
Cast: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Yancey Arias, Yorgo Constantine, Timothy Olyphant, Chris Palermo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jeffrey Wright
Producer: John McTiernan, Arnold Rifkin and Bruce Willis
Writer: David Marconi and Mark Bomback
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Directed by one man who made Antz and another who used to work on Ren & Stimpy , this movie is virtually plot-free -- a scene or two from The Great Escape cut and pasted into an episode of Survivor . Its threadbare storyline, about four... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 5/27/2005
Running Time: 80 mins
Director: Eric Darnell and Conrad Vernon
Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett-Smith
Producer: Karey Kirkpatrick
Writer: Billy Frolick and Mark Burton
Distributor: Dreamworks

Sharply adapted from the William Joyce book A Day With Wilbur Robinson , this speedy animated film features Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry), a bespectacled science geek and orphan who, though well cared for by a loving foster mom... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Animation» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 3/30/2007
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: Steve Anderson
Cast: Angela Bassett, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Tom Selleck, Adam West, Ethan Sandler and Tom Kenny
Producer: Dorothy McKim
Writer: Aurian Redson, Joe Mateo, Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz; Don Hall and Nathan Greno
Distributor: Buena Vista

I can see feeling queasy about a docudrama that reframes the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl as the ordeal of his wife, Mariane — especially as played by Hollywood siren Angelina Jolie in dusky skin, well-tutored... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  War» Drama»
Release Date: 6/22/2007
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton, Irfan Khan, Sajid Hasan, Dennis O'Hare, Alyy Khan and Adnan Siddiqui
Producer: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Andrew Eaton
Writer: John Orloff, Laurence Coriat, Mariane Pearl, Michael Winterbottom and Sarah Crichton
Distributor: Paramount Vantage

Bloody disappointing, that's what Mr. Brooks is. Kevin Costner plays a respectable Portland businessman who kills for thrills, thanks to the goading of an imaginary friend who looks a whole lot like William Hurt. Costner's Earl Brooks is such a... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Drama»
Release Date: 6/1/2007
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Cast: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Rubin Santiago-Hudson, Danielle Panabaker, Aisha Hinds, Lindsay Crouse and Jason Lewis
Producer: Kevin Costner, Raynold Gideon and Jim Wilson
Writer: Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon
Distributor: MGM

Genre:  Family» Comedy»
Release Date: 7/14/1999
Running Time: 83 mins
Director: Timothy Hill
Cast: Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Bill Barretta, Jeffrey Tambor, F.Murray Abraham, David Arquette, Josh Charles, Kathy Griffin and Pat Hingle
Producer: Brian Henson and Martin Baker
Writer: Jerry Juhl and Joseph Mazzarino
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Invented in 1930 by the same Stratemeyer syndicate that gave the world Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys, the bold, intelligent, and well-brought-up Nancy Drew sleuthed her way through some 60 mystery novels -- motoring around the midwestern... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Family» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 6/15/2007
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: Andrew Fleming
Cast: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan, Barry Bostwick, Laura Elena Harring, Caroline Aaron, Cliff McGinnis and Adam Clark
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Writer: Andrew Fleming, Carolyn Keene and Tiffany Paulsen
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Genre:  Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 12/22/2006
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Carla Gugino, Kim Raver, Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cobbs, Ricky Gervais, Rami Malek and Paul Rudd
Producer: Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus, Bob Ducsay and Shawn Levy
Writer: Ben Garant and Daniel Goldin
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

In this by-the-recipe remake of 2001’s German chocolate cake Mostly Martha , Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Kate, a top chef in New York City who rules her kitchen with a cast-iron fist. She wants to be alone, so, of course, her perfectly... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 7/21/2007
Running Time: 105 mins
Director: Scott Hicks
Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Patricia Clarkson, Abigail Breslin, Jenny Wade, Lily Rabe, Eric Silver, Arija Bareikis, John McMartin and Celia Weston
Producer: Sergio Aguero and Kerry Heysen
Writer: Carol Fuchs and Sandra Nettelbeck
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

Steven Soderbergh's latest remake of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack Vegas caper, the essence of curdled ring-a-ding-ding, is the surest bet in showbiz. It's a spectacle blatantly predicated on a smug gaggle of mega movie stars in boss threads... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» Comedy»
Release Date: 6/8/2007
Running Time: 113 mins
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Casey Affleck and Scott Caan
Producer: Jerry Weintraub
Writer: Brian Koppelman and David Levien
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

This astounding little film, which John Carney wrote and directed, is deceptively simple -- a narrative strung together by pop songs, but without the sheen (or arrogance) of most cinematic musicals. By day, a Dublin busker (Glen Hansard) sings Van... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Musical» Drama»
Release Date: 5/16/2007
Running Time: 95 mins
Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh, Gerry Hendrick, Alaistair Foley, Geoff Minogue, Bill Hodnett, Danuse Ktrestova, Darren Healy and Mal Whyte
Producer: Martina Niland
Writer: John Carney
Distributor: Fox Searchlight

Genre:  Comedy» Animation» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 9/29/2006
Running Time: 100 mins
Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton and Anthony Stacchi
Cast: Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Debra Messing, Jon Favreau, Billy Connolly and Fergal Reilly
Producer: Christopher Jenkins and Michelle Murdocca
Writer: Ron J. Friedman and Steve Bencich
Distributor: Sony Pictures

At World's End is a lukewarm maelstrom of secret agendas, double crosses, tricky alliances, back stabbings, familial complications, romantic entanglements, political conspiracies, warring factions, hidden gods, cheeky monkeys, and excessive... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/25/2007
Running Time: 165 mins
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard, Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Vanessa Branch, Chow Yun-Fat, Reggie Lee and MacKenzie Crook
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Writer: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
Distributor: Buena Vista

In the new animated feature by director Brad Bird ( The Incredibles ), a rat of rarefied palate (and exceptional olfactory ability) dreams of becoming a fine French chef, then gets his chance when he teams up with a garbage boy to restore a... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 6/16/2007
Running Time: 110 mins
Director: Brad Bird
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm and Peter O'Toole
Producer: Brad Lewis
Writer: Brad Bird
Distributor: Disney/Pixar

For summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly , offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom, and fortitude, set in the jungles of Indochina and featuring an immigrant... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  War» Drama» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 7/4/2007
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Werner Herzog
Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, François Chau, Craig Gellis, Pat Healy, Toby Huss, Evan Jones and Teerawat Mulvilai
Producer: Elton Brand, Harry Knapp and Steve Marlton
Writer: Werner Herzog
Distributor: MGM

There's not much to get excited about in this gaseous, overstuffed, prime case of franchise fatigue. Our stinky ogre grows flabbier by the sequel, and this time around we find him reeling not only from the death of his froggy father-in-law and the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 5/18/2007
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Chris Miller
Cast: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Justin Timberlake, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, Eric Idle and Cheri Oteri,
Producer: Aron Warner
Writer: David N Weiss, J David Stem, Jeffrey Price, Joe Stillman, Jon Zack and Peter Seaman
Distributor: Dreamworks

Sicko shows America’s pre-eminent cinemuckraker in a seriously polemical mode. Michael Moore’s latest isn’t about the 50 million Americans without health insurance. It's about the 250 million Americans who do have coverage — such as the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Documentary»
Release Date: 6/22/2007
Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Michael Moore
Cast: Michael Moore
Producer: Kathleen Glynn
Writer: Michael Moore
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world — or at least as far away as Washington, D.C., where President Schwarzenegger and an overzealous EPA chief rush to contain a Homer-instigated eco-crisis by encasing... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy» Animation»
Release Date: 7/27/2007
Running Time: 87 mins
Director: David Silverman
Cast: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, Mike Dirnt and Tress MacNeille
Producer: Richard Sakai and Julie Thacker
Writer: James L. Brooks and Matt Groening
Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Once more Sam Raimi is directing Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's comic-book creation, and you can almost feel his fatigue. Somewhere between that first joyous woo-hoo and this movie, Raimi and the revolving door of writers became too enamored of... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller» SciFi/Fantasy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 5/4/2007
Running Time: 140 mins
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons and Dylan Baker
Producer: Joseph M. Caracciolo
Writer: Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Distributor: Sony Pictures

It is the year 2057. Approximately five billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die. In a desperate attempt to keep the lights on, global resources have been directed toward a solution, presumably with input from Al Gore and the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 7/20/2007
Running Time: 108 mins
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Cillian Murphy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Mark Strong and Paloma Baeza
Producer: Andrew Macdonald
Writer: Alex Garland
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

The cash-cow flippered ones rise again, this time as yellow-tufted surfer dudes riding the waves of life off the coast of an island that looks like a cross between Hawaii and Venice Beach. If you have to see another penguin blockbuster, you could... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Family» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 6/8/2007
Running Time: 85 mins
Director: Ash Brannon and Chris Buck
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Jane Krakowski, Jon Heder, Mario Cantone, Brian Benben and Michael McKean
Producer: Christopher Jenkins
Writer: Christian Darren, Joe Syracuse and Lisa Addario
Distributor: Sony Pictures

Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low — so much so that the banality of Talk To Me is only half disappointing; at least it babbles clichés with conviction. Directed by Kasi Lemmons... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Drama»
Release Date: 7/13/2007
Running Time: 118 mins
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cedric The Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Mike Epps, Vondie Curtis Hall, Martin Sheen, Peter MacNeill, Adam Gaudreau and Sean MacMahon
Producer: Joe Fries, Mark Gordon, Sidney Kimmel and Josh McLaughlin
Writer: Michael Genet and Rick Famuyiwa
Distributor: Focus Features

Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye sockets and fingerfucking your brain in the last 20 minutes. Yes! It’s torture enough waiting for the iPhone and the... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  SciFi/Fantasy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 7/3/2007
Running Time: 143 mins
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Rachael Taylor, Megan Fox, John Turturro and Jon Voight
Producer: Don Murphy, Tom DeSanto and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
Writer: John Rogers and Tom DeSanto
Distributor: Dreamworks

Genre:  Family» Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 8/3/2007
Running Time: 84 mins
Director: Frederik Du Chau
Cast: Jason Lee, Peter Dinklage, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Alex Neuberger, Taylor Momsen, Amy Adams, John Slattery, Samantha Bee and Larry Vigus
Producer: Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum, Jonathan Glickman and Jay Polstein
Writer: Adam Rifkin, Craig A Williams and Joe Piscatella
Distributor: Buena Vista

Impossible though it is to watch Adrienne Shelly's posthumously released comedy without thinking of the actress-writer-director's gruesome murder last November (the indie stalwart was killed by a construction worker in her New York office), it's... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Comedy»
Release Date: 6/1/2007
Running Time: 104 mins
Director: Adrienne Shelly
Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Eddie Jemison, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith, Eddie Jemison, Lew Temple and Nathan Dean
Producer: Michael Roiff
Writer: Adrienne Shelly
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Name this movie: An up-and-comer from the city buys his way into a high-class country club, but the WASP-y club president won’t stand for it. Meanwhile, a poor young caddy is secretly the best player on the course. When the parvenu and the WASP... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy»
Release Date: 7/21/2007
Running Time: 93 mins
Director: Don Michael Paul
Cast: Big Boi, Jeffrey Jones, Susan Ward, Sherri Shepherd, Terry Crews, Andy Milonakis, Jenifer Lewis, James Avery, Tamala Jones and Tony Cox
Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein
Writer: Bradley Allenstein and Robert Henny
Distributor: MGM/Dimension Films

This sitcom-shallow comedy imagines itself as an amalgam of St. Elmo's Fire , The Wild Bunch , and Deliverance -- or so says smarmy, hammy Woody (John Travolta), whose supermodel wife has left him bankrupt and homeless. It's Woody who... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Comedy» Action/Adventure»
Release Date: 2/24/2007
Running Time: 99 mins
Director: Walt Becker
Cast: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Marisa Tomei, Jill Hennessy and Ray Liotta
Producer: Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins and Todd Lieberman
Writer: Brad Copeland
Distributor: Buena Vista

Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Montana-born director John Dahl made a name for himself with a series of nifty, darkly comic neo-noirs with hardboiled titles such as Kill Me Again , Red Rock West , and The Last Seduction . The past... Read the Mini-Review
Genre:  Romance» Drama» Comedy»
Release Date: 6/22/2007
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: John Dahl
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Bill Pullman, Marcus Thomas, Scott Heindl, Lorraine James and Devin McCracken
Producer: Jonathan Dana
Writer: Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely
Distributor: IFC Films