Based on David McCullough's bestselling biography, the HBO miniseries John Adams is the furthest thing from a starry-eyed look at America's founding fathers and the brutal path to independence. Adams (Paul Giamatti), second president of the United States, is portrayed as a skilled orator and principled attorney whose preference for justice over anti-English passions earns enemies. But he ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: David Morse, Justin Theroux, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Polley, Tom WilkinsonDirected By: Tom Hooper
Set in Saudi Arabia, The Kingdom is a political action thriller with good acting and wonderful visuals. Its so-so script, though, at times meanders aimlessly until a good explosion jolts the viewer's attention back to the screen. Jamie Foxx stars as FBI special agent Ronald Fleury, who leads an elite team into Saudi Arabia to find the terrorists who attacked American employees working in ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman, Jeremy PivenDirected By: Peter Berg
Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston and Ben Foster
Manufacturer: Icon Home EntertainmentStarring: Manu Bennett, Josh Hartnett, Joel Tobeck, Melissa George, Danny HustonDirected By: David Slade
Presenting a bleak, harrowing, and yet ultimately hopeful vision of humankind's not-too-distant future, Children of Men is a riveting cautionary tale of potential things to come. Set in the crisis-ravaged future of 2027, and based on the atypical 1993 novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, the anxiety-inducing, action-packed story is set in a dystopian England where humanity has become ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Peter Mullan, Michael Caine, Pam Ferris
While much was made of the fact that Marie Antoinette elicited boos at Cannes, the many favorable reviews attracted less attention. Inspired by Antonia Fraser's biography, Sofia Coppola fashions a portrait that's just as dreamy as The Virgin Suicides, her first literary adaptation, and the Oscar-winning Lost in Translation. Set to a soundtrack of post-punk (a conceit that adds ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UKStarring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzmann, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne
The Constant Gardener is the kind of thriller that hasn't been seen since the 1970s: Smart, politically complex, cinematically adventurous, genuinely thrilling and even heartbreaking. Mild diplomat Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient, Schindler's List) has a loose cannon of a wife named Tessa (Rachel Weisz, The Shape of Things, The Mummy), who's ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Apiyo, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill NighyDirected By: Fernando Meirelles
Jim Carrey as a schizophrenic murderer isn't convincing, in this melodramatic film about a man obsessed by the Number 23. Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever, St. Elmo's Fire) has unintentionally managed to make a comedy of horrors that really is quite humorous in parts. Walter Sparrow (Carrey) becomes engrossed in a homespun novel about Detective Fingerling, whose life degrades into ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Jim Carrey, Rhona MitraDirected By: Joel Schumacher
Sean Penn and Benecio Del Toro, two of the most gripping actors around, play wildly different men linked through a grieving woman (Naomi Watts) in 21 Grams. Del Toro delves deep into the role of an ex-con turned born-again Christian, a deeply conflicted man struggling to set right a terrible accident, even at the expense of his family. Penn captures a cynical, philandering professor in dire ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon, Claire PakisDirected By: Alejandro González Iñárritu
