Warner Bros. | 2010 | 125 mins. | R Just a few years ago, it looked like Ben Affleck might have thrown away much of a promising career. After scoring an Academy Award (with Matt Damon) for writing 1998’s Good…
Warner Bros. | 2002-2004 | 179 mins. | PG Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, Scooby-Doo has been one of television’s most popular cartoon characters since hitting the airwaves in 1969. Given its longtime appeal, and Hollywood’s love for…
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1940-1999 | 2 Movies | 195 min | G Few would deny that Walt Disney was a creative genius. Looking at Walt’s history, there are countless milestones and achievements. Even so, Disney was always looking…
Warner Bros. | 1985 | 114 mins. | PG I’ve been a fan of The Goonies from the day it was released back in 1985. I think I saw the film at least three times in the theater, rented it…
Warner Bros.| 2010 | 148 mins. | PG-13 Hot off the stunning achievement that was The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan could have easily cashed a big check by attaching himself to a pre-existing project. Instead, he took on an…
Criterion | 1983 | 89 mins. | R Until recently, I’d never made it all the way through director David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. I’m not exactly sure why, except to say that it just seemed a little too weird for me…
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 109 mins. | PG-13 On the face of it, Knight and Day should have been box office gold. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz starring in a comic caper/thriller sprinkled with romance. Unfortunately, director James…
Disney/Buena Vista | 2010 | 109 mins. | PG Producer Jerry Bruckheimer is one prolific guy. It seems like everywhere you look these days, he’s got a new movie or television series ready to hit the screen. Bruckheimer’s latest theatrical…
New Line | 2003 | 95 mins. | PG I’ve never been a huge fan of Will Ferrell’s movies. Most of the time, his characters are just a little to “over the top” for my taste. However, 2003’s Elf is…