Bad romantic comedies make you scoff at their absurdity; good ones make you wish your life was that absurd. Just Like Heaven is just smart and likable enough to trigger that wishing. David (Mark Ruffalo, Collateral, You Can Count On Me) finds an amazing apartment in San Francisco--only to discover it's haunted by the spirit of the previous tenant, an overachieving doctor named ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home EntertainmentStarring: Reese Witherspoon, Mark Ruffalo, Donal Logue, Dina Spybey, Ben ShenkmanDirected By: Mark Waters
Screenwriters rarely develop a distinctive voice that can be recognized from movie to movie, but the ornate imagination of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) has made him a unique and much-needed cinematic presence. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a guy decides to have the memories of his ex-girlfriend erased after she's had him erased from her own ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood, Thomas Jay RyanDirected By: Michel Gondry
Jennifer Garner glows like a rising star in 13 Going on 30, a girly version of the Tom Hanks classic Big. Jenna (Garner, Alias, Daredevil), a frustrated teenage girl, just wants to skip past all those annoying adolescent years and arrive at a glamorous adulthood--and thanks to some inexplicable wishing dust, she does. But once she re-orients herself to a life as a ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis, Kathy BakerDirected By: Gary Winick
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Elias Koteas, Chloe Sevigny, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Cox, John Carroll LynchDirected By: David Fincher
Watching Zodiac with Se7en and Fight Club in mind might disappoint those expecting a typical David Fincher movie, but his exploration of a serial killer's reign across 70s San Francisco is highly rewarding, provided you're willing to put in the (2 and a half) hours. The Zodiac killer submitted citizens of California to everything from fear to mild bemusement for the better ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Elias Koteas, John Carroll Lynch, Dermot Mulroney, Donal LogueDirected By: David Fincher
Sean Penn, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Mark RuffaloDirected By: Steven Zaillian
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Jennifer LopezDirected By: Joel Coen, Nancy Meyers, John Hamburg, Wayne Wang, Gary Winick
Elias Koteas, Chloe Sevigny, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch
Rumour Has It brings together several people whose film career could usefully use a jolt. Kevin Costner, the excellent and pretty much unseen The Upside Of Anger aside, is long in need of a hit. Director Rob Reiner is some distance away from the heights of his big successes such as When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men. And the calibre of Jennifer Aniston's movie CV ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley Maclaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard JenkinsDirected By: Rob Reiner
Based on Susanna Moore's novel, In the Cut centres on Frannie (Meg Ryan), an emotionally stifled English teacher who gets steamy with sultry Malloy (Mark Ruffalo), a cop who's investigating a series of brutal murders--but Frannie soon suspects that Malloy may be the killer. As a psychological thriller, In the Cut is heavier on psychology than thrills; the story is a skeleton that ...
Manufacturer: Pathe DistributionStarring: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Micheal Nuccio, Allison NegaDirected By: Jane Campion
