The monsters in Monsters, Inc. are just so incredibly cute--and they know it. Whereas Woody, Buzz and pals in the Toy Story saga were filled with self-doubt about just how much the children in their lives would continue to love them, here our heroic monsters and their impossibly lovable human ward Boo have no such worries, at least when it comes to the cinema audience. And that's why ...
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home EntertainmentStarring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James CoburnDirected By: David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter
This 1998 testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continued Hollywood's millennium-fuelled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understand what mainstream audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid-fire ...
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will PattonDirected By: Michael Bay
Facing an indeterminate sentence of weeks/months/years until new episodes, Sopranos fans are advised to take the fifth; season, that is. At this point, superlatives don't do The Sopranos justice, but justice was at last served to this benchmark series. For the first time, The Sopranos rubbed out The West Wing to take home its first Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series. ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Dominic Chianese, Michael Imperioli, Steve Buscemi
Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut suspense thriller and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by William H. Macy) ineptly orchestrates the kidnapping of his own ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve PresnellDirected By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Even with the impressive talent involved, Paris, Je T'Aime could've ended up like a fallen soufflé. Though all 18 films aren't equally successful, they hit the mark more often than not. Romantics anticipating happy love stories set amongst the City of Lights may be disappointed to find that many are quite sad and that some parts of Paris are less inviting than others (each takes place in a ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Gerard Depardieu, Bob Hoskins, Nick NolteDirected By: Gus Van Sant, Isabel Coixet, Wes Craven, Christopher Doyle, Vincenzo Natali
The Big Lebowski, a casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel), seems like a bit of a lark and the result was a box-office disappointment. It's lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David HuddlestonDirected By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to southern tall tales. Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor and as a dying father by Albert Finney. Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham CarterDirected By: Tim Burton
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence TierneyDirected By: Quentin Tarantino
Manufacturer: Touchstone Home VideoStarring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, Monica Potter, John Cusack, Steve BuscemiDirected By: Simon West
An intriguing action adventure set in the near future, The Island finds those who survived a mass global contamination living in a contained and highly controlled world. Their actions are controlled, their lives are routine, and the only hope is to win lottery and be sent to a mysterious island, the so-called last surviving, uncontaminated paradise on the planet. Naturally enough, ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve BuscemiDirected By: Michael Bay
