Anatomy of a Murder (1959)Director: Otto PremingerScreenwriter: Wendell MayesStarring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Kathryn Grant, Brooks West, Orson Bean, Murray Hamilton, Joseph N. Welch Courtroom dramas tend to get the blood pumping. There’s nothing quite like a shouted “Objection!” at the right time to turn a story on […]
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Sister Wives (2024)Director: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamScreenwriters: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamStarring: Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Michael Fox It starts getting worrying in contemporary life when someone playing Snake on an old Nokia is a sign of times long past, but this is the state of things. Historical fiction films can now talk about security camera surveillance and phones and
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The Notebook (2004)Director: Nick CassavetesScreenwriter: Jeremy LevenStarring: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marsden, Kevin Connolly, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen. When The Notebook was released in the summer of 2004, critics and audiences seemed split in their response to the film. Based on the 1996 Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name,
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall FallahScreenwriters: Chris Bremner, Will BeallStarring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Eric Dane, Ioan Gruffudd, Jacob Scipio, Melanie Liburd, Tasha Smith, Rhea Seehorn, Joe Pantoliano, Quinn Hemphill Questions must be asked in films, and with the fourth instalment of the Bad
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The Book of Clarence (2023)Director: Jeymes SamuelScreenwriter: Jeymes SamuelStarring: LaKeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Micheal Ward, Caleb McLaughlin, Alfre Woodard, James McAvoy At the height of the Hollywood golden age, one of the staples of cinema was the Biblical Epic. From The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Story Ever Told
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Hellboy (2004)Director: Guillermo del ToroScreenwriter: Guillermo del ToroStarring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Hurt, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Brian Steele, Ladislav Beran, Biddy Hodson, Corey Johnson, Kevin Trainor In 2004, over a decade out from his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro had directed two Spanish-language passion
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)Director: Adam WingardScreenwriters: Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, Jeremy SlaterStarring: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns, Fala Chen Three years ago, Adam Wingard gave us big monsters beating each other up in Godzilla vs Kong, ending with a big smash fest in a neon-soaked Hong
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)Director: Gil JungerScreenwriter: Karen McCullah, Kirsten SmithStarring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Andrew Keegan, Gabrielle Union, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt, Allison Janney, Larry Miller In Ten Things I Hate About You, the 1999 teen comedy based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, bad
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)Director: Jordan Vogt-RobertsScreenwriters: Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek ConnollyStarring: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Jing Tian, Toby Kebell, Thomas Mann After Legendary Pictures came out of the blocks well with Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla in 2014, it was only a few months before they decided to
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)Director: Gil KenanScreenwriters: Gil Kenan, Jason ReitmanStarring: Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Kumail Nanjiani, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Patton Oswalt, William Atherton, James Acaster And so the second legacy sequel for the 1984 classic spoof comedy horror hits the big screen. Once again we show
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