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- By Loron Hays
Runtime: 91 mins.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Tagline: Hang six Summer 2007.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Memorable Movie Quote: "She is the only one who can stop it... if she fails, no one survives." ... more quotes
Release Date: November 16, 1984
Blu-ray Release Date: April 13, 2010
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Read more: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for sequences of fantasy violence.
Runtime: 113 mins.
Director: Chris Weitz
Writer: Philip Pullman (novel); Chris Weitz (screenplay)
Cast: Nicole Kidman; Daniel Craig; Freddie Highmore; Ian McKellen... complete cast
Tagline: It is the Alethiometer. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself.
Genre: Action/Adevnture/Family
Memorable Quote: "I will serve you in your campaign until you have a victory."... more quotes
Release Date: December 7, 2007
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and smoking.
Runtime: 120 mins.
Director: Rob Marchall
Writer: Michael Tolkin
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis; Penelope Cruz; Marion Cotillard; Judi Dench; Nicole Kidman
Tagline: Nine.
Genre: Musical
Memorable Quote: "Thank you for reminding me I'm not special. You don't even see what you do to me. Even the moments I think are ours, it's just... you working to get what you want. "
Release Date: December 25, 2009
DVD/Blu-ray Release Date: May 4, 2010.
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for language, crude and sex-related humor, and some drug references.
Runtime: 95 mins.
Director: Frank Coraci
Writer: Steve Koren & Mark O'Keefe
Cast: Adam Sandler; Kate Beckinsale; Christopher Walken
Tagline: This Summer, Everything Will Click.
Memorable Quote: "Come down here and let me freshen your breath."
Release Date: June 23, 2006
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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MPAA Rating: PG for language and some suggestive material. (edited for re-rating; originally PG-13 for brief strong language)
Runtime: 97 mins.
Director: Jonas Elmer
Writer: Ken Rance and C. Jay Cox
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr. Siobhan Fallon Hogan, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien, James Durham, Hilary Carroll
Tagline: She's an executive on the move. But her career is taking her a little farther than she expected.
Genre: Comedy
Memorable Quote: "Awesome"
Release Date: January 30, 2009
DVD Release Date: May 26, 2009
Distributor: Lionsgate
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for sex and drug content, pervasive language and some violence.
Runtime: 114 mins.
Director: Craig Brewer
Writer: Craig Brewer
Cast: Terrence Dashon Howard; Anthony Anderson; Taryn Manning; Taraji P. Henson ... complete cast
Tagline: Everybody gotta have a dream.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "Whoop that trick!"
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- By Loron Hays
“What you are about to see - where it happened and how it happened - is true. Only the names have been changed” is the promise of The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Arkansas-native filmmaker Charles B. Pierce’s cult drive-in hit from 1976, and while the film delivers ...
Read more: The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Bringing a welcome change to the hill-meets-billy horror formula, writer/director Eli Craig’s Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil is a hilarious spoof of backwoods terror. After waiting some 40-plus years, we have a movie that celebrates the southerner as the unsung hero without ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Rated: Not rated by the MPAA
Runtime: 234 mins.
Director: Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Writer: Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Cast: Oswald the Rabbit; Walt Disney
Tagline: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Genre: Animated/Comedy / Family
Memorable Quote:
DVD Release Date: December 11, 2007
Read more: Walt Disney Treasures - The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - DVD Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for strong violence, drug use, language and sexuality.
Runtime: 122 mins.
Director: Andrew Niccol
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Cast: Nicolas Cage; Bridget Moynahan; Jared Leto
Tagline: First rule of gunrunning: never get shot with your own merchandise.
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Genre: Drama/Crime
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- By Loron Hays
Runtime:118 mins.
Director: Desmond Davis
Writer: Beverley Cross
Cast: Laurence Olivier; Harry Hamlin; Ursula Andress
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "I was partial to tragedy in my youth. That was before experience taught me that life was tragical enough without my having to write about it. "
Release Date: June 12, 1981
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: May 25, 2010
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: PG-13 for intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug references.
Runtime: 110 mins.
Director: Neil LaBute
Writer: David Loughery and Howard Korder
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson; Patrick Wilson; Kerry Washington ... complete cast
Tagline: What could be safer than living next to a cop?
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "You can listen to that noise all night long, but when you wake up in the morning, you'll still be white" ... more quotes
Release Date: September 19, 2008
DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
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- By Loron Hays
Much like he did with The Rocketeer, director Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park 3, October Sky, Hidalgo, The Wolfman) delivers a little slice of heroic Americana circa the 1940’s at the helm of Captain America: The First Avenger...
Read more: Captain America: The First Avenger - Blu-ray Movie Review
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent content, language and some nudity.
Runtime: 138 mins.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Laeta Kalogridis
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio; Ben Kingsley; Mark Ruffalo
Tagline: Someone is missing.
Genre: Drama | Mystery
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- By Frank Wilkins
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic material, language and a mild suggestive moment.
Runtime: 105 mins.
Director: tom Vaughan
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs.
Cast: Harrison Ford; Brendan Fraser; Keri Russell
Tagline: Don't hope for a miracle. Make one.
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "I wish that we had a drug to treat Pompe, but we simply don't."
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Distributor: CBS Films
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