Sony Pictures | 1986 | 113 mins. | Rated PG Given the success of 1984’s The Karate Kid, there was little surprise when Columbia Pictures released The Karate Kid II two years later. Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita reprise their…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 133 mins. | Rated PG-13 At first glance, it’s easy to see why some critics dismissed Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort, Invictus. Some may get lost in the inescapable sentimentality of the story, therefore missing…
Sony Pictures | 1984 | 127 mins. | Rated PG I was just about to turn eleven when The Karate Kid hit theaters in the summer of 1984. Likely because of my age, I was immediately drawn in. Directed by…
Paramount Pictures | 1998 | 169 mins. | Rated R There have been many great films about the atrocities of war. Each tells their story in a different way—a different angle or perspective. Each have brought tales of heroism and…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1998 | 150 mins. | Rated PG-13 Released in July of 1998, Armageddon became a box office smash. Despite largely negative reviews from critics, filmgoers flocked to theaters, leaving the movie with a gross of…
Disney / Buena Vista | 130 mins.| 1993 | Rated R Though Clint Eastwood’s 1992 film Unforgiven was lauded with Oscars—and rightfully so—the 1993 film, Tombstone also stands as one of the finest westerns of the decade. Yes, we’ve seen…
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 119 mins. | Rated PG-13 An adaptation of the Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit Tony winning stage musical, Nine seemed like a sure-fire hit. Directed by Rob Marshall, who steered Chicago to a Best Picture Oscar in…
Fresh of the success of Lawrence of Arabia, British director David Lean tackled another epic; Doctor Zhivago based on the Nobel Prize winning novel by Boris Pasternak. After what he viewed as the action-adventure tone of Lawrence of Arabia, Lean…
Warner Bros. | 2006 | 98 mins | Rated PG-13 I admit, I’m a fan of 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure. Granted, like most of producer Irwin Allen’s films (The Towering Inferno), the story is only so-so, but the star power…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 166 mins. | Rated PG-13 Easily one of the most hyped movies of the decade, James Cameron waited more than a decade for technology to catch up to his vision of what Avatar was…