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…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 112 mins. | Rated R Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) doesn´t just write and sing great country songs, he lives them. Bad drives a beat up pickup truck, has four ex wives, an estranged son,…
Palm Pictures | 1995 | 102 mins. | Rated R Over the years, several writers had tried to adapt Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries for the big screen. Published in 1978, the novel tells the gripping story of his battle…
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 101 mins. | Rated PG Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove got a direct-to-DVD release in March, and it’s a film that likely deserved a better fate. The movie is charming enough to have found…