After creating the last great traditionally animated film of the 20th century, The Iron Giant, filmmaker Brad Bird joined top-drawer studio Pixar to create this exciting, completely entertaining computer-animated film. Bird gives us a family of "supers," a brood of five with special powers desperately trying to fit in with the 9-to-5 suburban lifestyle. Of course, in a more innocent world, ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home VideoStarring: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Dominique LouisDirected By: Brad Bird, Bud Luckey, Roger Gould
Take two male figure skaters, throw in a preposterous storyline, and you've got Blades of Glory, a surprisingly funny film that almost makes you forgive Will Ferrell for his back-to-back 2005 clunkers Kicking & Screaming and Bewitched. This time around, Ferrell eats the scenery in his role as a sex-addicted, cocky skating champ named Chazz Michael Michaels. When he gets into ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Jenna FischerDirected By: Will Speck, Josh Gordon
Modern horror movie-makers could learn a lot from watching Poltergeist. For here, you'll find no loud music, no insistence on showing you absolutely everything, and no cast of screaming, nauseating teenagers. In its place is deliberate pacing, some very simple, yet effective, chills, and characters who you actually care about as the tension gets ratcheted up. It's surprising too just ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'RourkeDirected By: Tobe Hooper
It's been a long time coming, but at last the digitally remastered version of the original 1982 horror movie has arrived. Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist, about a haunted suburban home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Craig T Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'RourkeDirected By: Tobe Hooper
Manufacturer: Optimum ReleasingStarring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. NelsonDirected By: Roland Joffe
Sidney Poitier directed (sadly without much distinction) this 1980 comedy teaming Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor as New York knuckleheads who try their luck in California and are accused of robbing a bank. Most of the laughs concern their survival strategies in prison (at one point, Wilder decides to "reach out and talk" to some hulking murderer) and their plans to escape. Both performers are so ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Miguel Ángel SuárezDirected By: Sidney Poitier
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins, Zelda RubinsteinDirected By: Brian Gibson
Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear--what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart (as Louis Cyphre--get it?). In The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith IveyDirected By: Taylor Hackford
Much better than your average cop-and-dog movie (such as K-9), Turner and Hooch is really a love story about a control freak (Tom Hanks) who gradually resigns to the messy chaos of a sweet hulk of a pooch named Hooch. The excuse for this relationship is that the dog can identify a murderer and Hanks needs him, but the film is really about such hilarious moments as Hanks bathing Hooch ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson, Scott PaulinDirected By: Roger Spottiswoode
Manufacturer: Optimum Home EntertainmentStarring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T. NelsonDirected By: Roland Joffe
