The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great--in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision--is that it bypasses the normal fantasy ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie GyllenhaalDirected By: Christopher Nolan
Achieving balance in one's life can be a difficult process, but master chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) leads a regimented, very ordered existence running the kitchen of an exclusive restaurant and revels in the sense of power and control her career affords. When Kate's sister is unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident and her 9-year old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) moves in with ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jenny WadeDirected By: Scott Hicks
As one of the funniest films released in 2006, Thank You for Smoking works precisely because it shouldn't. Its protagonist is Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), a smooth-talking spokesman for the American tobacco industry, and therefore one of the 21st Century's most demonised men. From his gelled hair to his perfect teeth, he's all slick and smarmy charm, though crucially, it's his ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Aaron Eckhart, Sam Elliott, Robert Duvall, Maria Bello, David KoechnerDirected By: Jason Reitman
With its complex twists and turns, AS Byatt's doorstopper of a novel Possession is hardly the kind of tale that translates easily to film, even though its switches in time across more than a century are intrinsically filmic. In this adaptation the basic story revolves around two modern-day academics, Maud Bailey (Gwyneth Paltrow, a class act, all ice and severe hair) and the young American ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle, Lena HeadeyDirected By: Neil LaBute
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Aaron Eckhart, Josh Hartnett, Hilary Swank, Scarlett Johansson, Mia KirshnerDirected By: Brian De Palma
Manufacturer: Revelation Films LtdStarring: Aaron Eckhart, Hans CanosaHelena Bonham CarterDirected By: Hans Canosa
The Core is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest; smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme. It's scientifically ridiculous, naturally, but this variant of Fantastic Voyage at least tries to be credible as it plunges deep into the Earth's inner core, where a formulaic team of experts pilot an earth-boring ship to jump-start the planet's spinning molten interior, ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Greenwood, Stanley TucciDirected By: Jon Amiel
The brainy, paranoid science fiction of writer Philip K Dick has inspired one visionary classic (Blade Runner) and two above-average action movies (Total Recall and Minority Report). Paycheck aspires to follow in their footsteps: an engineer (Ben Affleck) routinely agrees to have his memory erased after every job so that he doesn't know what he's done. But after the ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home EntertainmentStarring: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm FeoreDirected By: John Woo
