A very good adaptation of the popular series of books by Tony DiTerllizi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles is one of the few family films in recent years to seamlessly integrate magical elements with a potent drama that will strike a chord with many kids. An exceptionally talented Freddie Highmore (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory) plays twin brothers Jared and Simon ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Seth Rogen, Freddie Highmore, David Strathairn, Martin ShortDirected By: Mark Waters
By far the best thing about director Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the extraordinary all-star cast, which follows the precedent created by Kenneth Branagh's Italian-set romantic Shakespeare comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1993), of mixing major Hollywood stars--here Kevin Kline and Michelle Pfeiffer--with top British talent, in this instance Christian Bale, Rupert ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci, Rupert Everett, Calista FlockhartDirected By: Michael Hoffman
A very good adaptation of the popular series of books by Tony DiTerllizi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles is one of the few family films in recent years to seamlessly integrate magical elements with a potent drama that will strike a chord with many kids. An exceptionally talented Freddie Highmore (August Rush) plays twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, caught up in a sad shock ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Joan Plowright, Freddie Highmore, David Strathairn, Mary Louise Parker, Nick NolteDirected By: Mark Waters
Sir Anthony Hopkins trots out another psycho you'll hate to love in Fracture, a by-the-numbers legal thriller that's redeemed by electric performances from its two leads. Hopkins is on fine accent-bending, twinkle-eyed form as aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect way to bump off his cheating wife. Ryan Gosling positively crackles as Willy Beachum, the cocky public ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Ryan Gosling, Billy Burke, Rosamund PikeDirected By: Gregory Hoblit
Considering Good Night and Good Luck is only the second time he's stepped behind the camera, George Clooney has already marked his card as a director of real talent to watch. He also acts in this particular film, but generously leaves centre stage to the superb David Strathairn.Set in the 1950s and based on true events, Strathairn plays news reporter Edward R. Murrow, who finds himself ...
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Ent. UK LtdStarring: David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Tom McCarthy, Robert Downey Jr.Directed By: George Clooney
There seems to be no end to "beating-the-odds" American football movies these days, but We Are Marshall, based on a true story, is in the top tier of that clutch of movies. Matthew McConaughey plays Jack Lengyel, who becomes head coach--more or less by default--of Marshall University's rebuilding varsity American football team in Huntington, West Virginia, after the school's 37-member team ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Ian McShane, Anthony Mackie, David StrathairnDirected By: McG
This first film adaptation of a John Grisham novel is a crackerjack popcorn movie that satisfies even though it radically changes the last half of the book. The novel's dynamic setup is intact: Mitch McDeere, a hot law graduate (a well-suited Tom Cruise), finds a dream job in a luxurious Memphis law firm. His superiors (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook) provide Mitch and his young wife, Abby (Jeanne ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry KinneyDirected By: Sydney Pollack
In a time when it seems that every other movie makes some claim to being a film noir, LA Confidential is the real thing--a gritty, sordid tale of sex, scandal, betrayal and corruption of all sorts (police, political, press--and, of course, very personal) in 1940s Hollywood. The Oscar-winning screenplay is actually based on several titles in James Ellroy's series of chronological ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim BasingerDirected By: Curtis Hanson
If you've never seen an aviation movie before in your entire life, you'll be blissfully ignorant of the fact that Memphis Belle shamelessly (and yet gloriously) incorporates just about every cliché in the flight-movie handbook. If you're a big fan of aviation films--especially ones about World War II bomber crews--you'll be glad that the genre's clichés have been handled with such ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy ZaneDirected By: Michael Caton-Jones
Manufacturer: Optimum Home EntertainmentStarring: Norah Jones, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, David StrathairnDirected By: Wong Kar-Wai
