Field Details Movie Name Ali (2001) Director Michael Mann Writer Michael Mann, Eric Roth Lead Actor Will Smith Cast Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nona Gaye, LeVar Burton, Joe Morton, Bruce McGill Genre Biography, Drama, Sport Release Date December 25, 2001 (USA) […]
Eurotrip Starring a bunch of nobodies, leavened with a few clever star cameos, and written and directed by guys you’ve never heard of, Eurotrip wastes no time with the setup and getting its young stars to Europe. Upon graduating from high school, Scotty (Scott Mechlowicz) gets dumped by his girlfriend (Smallville’s Kristen Kreuk), who then
An Evening with Kevin Smith Some people think he helped make independent movies relevant again. Others firmly believe that mentioning his name among the likes of Tarantino, Linklater, and Soderbergh is akin to sacrilege. Don’t even ask those same people about his writing skills, which at times can make an Aaron Sorkin project look like
Fingers 1978 Rarely has a crime gangster movie been produced with such a sense of calmness. Fingers, a cult classic, is a real showpiece for Harvey Keitel, who plays the title of Jimmy Fingers, a low-level gangster working for his father as a bag man but dreaming of becoming of all things a concert pianist.
The Firm 1993 Run, Tom, run! Mr. Cruise got a workout in this picture, a film that had him on the run from the evil law firm that employed him and whose clients consist only of mobsters, killers, and other crooks. An all-star cast otherwise makes up for a largely uninspired, overly complex, and far
eXistenZ The story is straight outta modern/near-future pop culture: Using a “bioport,” you can jack your body and mind into an immersive game world a world served up by a handheld bio-engineered creature called a “game pod” that is essentially a blood-pulsing Nintendo. There are no computers in the film just the mutated organisms that
Easy Rider Some films captivate the zeitgeist of the American imagination so completely that they become instant cult favorites. But few such films prove potent enough to retain the favor of audiences in perpetuity. So the fact that, 35 years after the film’s release, audiences around the world are still captivated by the raw vision
Elmer Gantry Burt Lancaster shines as the titular Elmer Gantry, a revival preacher with a questionable past and uncertain motives, in the epic film that won Oscars for Lancaster, Shirley Jones (as a hooker from Gantry’s past), and the script by Richard Brooks. Written with an assured bite, Gantry skewers “that old time religion” with
Enemies of Laughter Yet another entry into a genre popularized in the late 1990s: The Hollywood romantic comedy about the successful man who just can’t make romance work. (Later this would evolve into the woman who just can’t make romance work genre, followed by the lesbian who just can’t make romance work genre). Saddled with
Dummy Just before Adrien Brody delivered his Oscar winning performance as an isolated and frightened Holocaust survivor in The Pianist, he played a whole different kind of isolated and frightened. As Steven, a lonely underachiever in Greg Pritikin’s fantastic indie comedy Dummy, Brody finds solace not in piano music, but in the twisted art of
