February 15, 2013

Roman Holiday

    Roman Holiday Release Date: September 2, 1953 Runtime: 118 minutes Rating: N/A Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: William Wyler Cast: Gregory Peck; Audrey Hepburn; Eddie Albert     In honor of Valentine’s Day, I decided to go romantic. I didn’t want a weepie, nor did I want some saccharine […]
February 13, 2013

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February 11, 2013

Zero Dark Thirty*

    Zero Dark Thirty Release Date: January 11, 2013 Runtime: 157 minutes Rating: R Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: Kathryn Bigelow Cast: Jessica Chastain; Jason Clarke; Kyle Chandler; Jennifer Ehle; Chris Pratt     [POSSIBLE SPOILERS, I guess…] Goooooooood movie!! The search for Osama Bin Laden took a really […]
February 9, 2013

Xanadu

    Xanadu Release Date: August 8, 1980 Runtime: 93 minutes Rating: PG Studio: Universal Pictures Director: Robert Greenwald Cast: Olivia Newton-John; Gene Kelly; Michael Beck     Something about this movie draws me to it.  I don’t know if it’s the fact that it was so viciously derided upon its […]
February 9, 2013

The Others

    The Others Release Date: August 10, 2001 Runtime: 101 minutes Rating: PG-13 Studio: Dimension Films (Miramax) Director: Alejandro Amenabar Cast: Nicole Kidman; Christopher Eccleston; Fionnula Flanagan; Alakina Mann; James Bentley     [POSSIBLE SPOILERS] “The Others” reminds me of how much fun going to the movies can be!  If […]
February 9, 2013

Darkness

    Darkness Release Date: December 25, 2004 Runtime: 102 minutes Rating: R Studio: Dimension Films (Miramax) Director: Jaume Balaguero Cast: Anna Paquin; Lena Olin; Iain Glen; Giancarlo Giannini     [SPOILER ALERT!] Oh boy, is this ever a mess of a movie.  Basically, the story of a young girl […]
February 9, 2013

Hudson Hawk

    Hudson Hawk Release Date: May 24, 1991 Runtime: Interminable Rating: R Studio: TriStar Pictures (Sony) Director: Michael Lehmann Cast: Bruce Willis; Danny Aiello; Andie MacDowell; Richard E. Grant; Sandra Bernhard     This movie has, in the 20-plus years since its release, become kind-of a punch line for jokes […]
February 9, 2013

Streets of Fire

    Streets of Fire Release Date: June 1, 1984 Runtime: 93 minutes Rating: R Studio: Universal Pictures Director: Walter Hill Cast: Michael Pare; Diane Lane; Willem Dafoe; Rick Moranis; Deborah Van Valkenburgh; Amy Madigan     [POSSIBLE SPOILERS] Although this film is pure 80’s in the music, it’s a […]
February 9, 2013

Soapdish

    Soapdish Release Date: May 31, 1991 Runtime: 97 minutes Rating: PG-13 Studio: Paramount Pictures Director: Michael Hoffman Cast: Sally Field; Kevin Kline; Cathy Moriarty; Robert Downey, Jr; Elisabeth Shue; Whoopi Goldberg; Teri Hatcher     A riotous farce set in the world of glamorous daytime soap operas, “Soapdish” […]
February 6, 2013

Lost Horizon (1973)

    Lost Horizon Release Date: March 17, 1973 Runtime: 150 minutes (feels like it!) Rating: G Studio: Columbia Pictures (Sony) Director: Charles Jarrott Cast: Peter Finch; Liv Ullmann; John Gielgud; Sally Kellerman; George Kennedy; Michael York; Olivia Hussey; Bobby Van; James Shigeta; Charles Boyer     Hoo-boy!  Where to […]
February 2, 2013

Romancing the Stone

    Romancing the Stone Release Date: March 30, 1984 Runtime: 106 minutes Rating: PG Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Michael Douglas; Kathleen Turner; Danny DeVito; Alfonso Arau; Zack Norman     Another faaaaaaaantastic movie! They just don’t make movies like this anymore…a good old-fashioned, 80’s action […]