Technical Specs
Color: NA
Sound mix: NA
Aspect ratio: NA
Language(s):
Country of origin: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Original premiere:
Newest season premiere:
 
Genre(s)
Drama, Music, Period Piece
 
Keyword(s)
Foreign Language Drama Movie, Period Piece, Movies Directed by Jan Hrebejk, Movies Written by Petr Jarchovsky, Movies Starring Zuzana Maurery, Movies Starring Csongor Kassai, Movies Starring Zuzana Konecna, Movies Starring Tamara Fischer, Movies Starring Martin Havelka, Movies Starring Eva Bandor, Movies Starring Oliver Oswald, Movies Starring Peter Bebjak, Movies Starring Richard Labuda, Movies Starring Ina Gogalova, Movies Starring Monika Certezni, RTVS Movie, PubRes Movie, Offside Men Movie, Ceska Televize Movie, Movies from 2017, Movies from the 2010s, Low Budget Movie, Movies from Czech Republic, Movies from Slovakia, Slovak Language
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

Links
 

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Technical Specs
Color: Color
Sound mix: Dolby Digital, Dolby
Aspect ratio: 16:9 HD
Language(s):
Country of origin: United States
Original premiere:
Newest season premiere:
 
Genre(s)
Action, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Ensemble, Literary Adaptation, Music, News, Science Fiction, Sport, War
 
Keyword(s)
Comedy Action Movie, Comic Book / Graphic Novel Adaptation Action Movie, Crime Action Movie, Literary Adaptation Action Movie, Science Fiction, Movies Written by Christina Hodson, Movies Directed by Andres Muschietti, Movies Starring Ezra Miller, Movies Starring Maribel Verdu, Movies Starring Sasha Calle, Movies Starring Kiersey Clemons, Movies Starring Michael Keaton, Movies Starring Ben Affleck, Movies Starring Ron Livingston, Warner Bros. Pictures Movie, DC Comics Movie, The Disco Factory Movie, Toma 78 Movie, Double Dream Movie, Movies from 2023, Movies from the 2020s, Big Budget Movie, Movies from United States, English Language, Movies Starring Gal Gadot, Movies from 2022, Movies Starring Billy Crudup, Franchise: DC Extended Universe, Impacted by COVID-19, Female Producer, 2+ Ethnicity Director, LGBTQ+ Lead Cast, Black Lead Cast, Non-binary Lead Cast, Latin/Hispanic Lead Cast, Asian Producer, Female Writer, 2+ Ethnicity Writer, Latin/Hispanic Lead Cast, LGBTQ Lead Cast, Nonbinary Lead Cast, 2+ Ethnicity Lead Cast
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

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Year of Release
2021
 
Technical Specs
Color: NA
Sound mix: NA
Aspect ratio: NA
Language(s): English
Country of origin: United States
Original premiere: 04/05/2021
Newest season premiere: 04/05/2021

2020-2021 Summer Primetime
 
Genre(s)
Documentary, History, War
 
Keyword(s)
Documentary, Florentine Films Shows, WETA Washington D.C. Shows, TV Shows from 2021, TV Shows from United States, English Language, WGA Awards Nominees, Critics’ Choice Awards Nominees, NAACP Image Awards Nominees, Golden Globes Nominees, SAG Awards Nominees, Female Producer, Female Director
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

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Production Company(ies)
Bandai Visual Company, Cinequanon Eisei Gekijo
 
Distributor
Samuel Goldwyn Company
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Oakland Court, Holland Park, London, England, UK
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Biography
 
Keyword(s)
starring Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Andrew Schofield, Debby Bishop, Tony London, directed by Alex Cox, written by Alex Cox, Abbe Wool, biography, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Ryan Gilbey, Desmond Ryan, Nigel Andrews, Jay Boyar, Gene Siskel, Dave Kehr, Peter Sobczynski, Matt Brunson, Grant Watson, Alexa Dalby, produced by Eric Fellner, R MPAA rating, punk rock, Sex Pistols, U.S tour, troubled relationship, drug addiction, co-dependency, Johnny Rotten, Malcolm McLaren, bassist, temperamental, troubled girlfriend, American, groupie, heroin, addiction, despair, solo career, inaccurate, flawed, mesmerizing, interesting character, biopic, volatile, musical icon, short life, horror movies, MCU movies, Netflix series, TV shows, streaming movies, critic reviews, audience reviews
 

Cast & Crew

Gary Oldman

Chloe Webb

David Hayman

Andrew Schofield

Debby Bishop

Sid Vicious

Nancy Spungen

Malcolm (McLaren)

Johnny Rotten

Phoebe

Gary Oldman – Sid Vicious
Chloe Webb – Nancy Spungen
David Hayman – Malcolm (McLaren)
Andrew Schofield – Johnny Rotten
Debby Bishop – Phoebe
Tony London – Steve

 

Alex Cox

Alex Cox

Eric Fellner

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Alex Cox
 
Writer(s)
Alex Cox, Abbe Wool
 
Producer(s)
Eric Fellner

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
4 wins & 2 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Ryan Gilbey

Desmond Ryan

Nigel Andrews

Jay Boyar

Gene Siskel

New Statesman

Philadelphia Inquirer

Financial Times

Orlando Sentinel

Chicago Tribune

SID & NANCY
 All Critics (69) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (8)
 Sid and Nancy has some claim on being the finest British film of the 1980s.
 
 September 15, 2016
 
 Ryan Gilbey
 New Statesman
 TOP CRITIC
 They are more than zombies doing needlepoint on each other’s veins. Both are brought to life in complex, deeply felt performances from two actors who have abandoned themselves to enormously demanding and difficult roles.
 
 August 9, 2016 | Rating: 4/4
 
 Desmond Ryan
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 TOP CRITIC
 Every character is booked through to hell or purgatory. But we gasp at the inventiveness, ferocity and cuckoo anarchy with which these rockers prepared their route to destruction or damnation.
 
 August 9, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Nigel Andrews
 Financial Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Sid & Nancy is an honorable try, but it could have been better had Cox found a way to imbue the movie with some of the sheer zaniness of his Repo Man.
 
 August 9, 2016
 
 Jay Boyar
 Orlando Sentinel
 TOP CRITIC
 Once we sense a glimmer of talent and accept these people as human beings, the tragedy of their drug use resonates enormously.
 
 August 9, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 This is a love story — an unlikely, perverse, disturbing love story, but a genuine one.
 
 August 9, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 Rather than trade in the overt romanticization of its subject, Sid & Nancy instead offers a perceptive observation of Vicious and Spungen as people.
 
 November 28, 2021
 
 Peter Sobczynski
 The Spool
 Alex Cox’s eye for capturing the grungy London and New York scenes in the late 1970s provides the picture with an added kick.
 
 October 11, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 This is arguably Cox’s finest film. It’s arguably one of the United Kingdom’s finest.
 
 January 5, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Grant Watson
 Fiction Machine
 Neil Young may have namedropped Johnny Rotten in “My My, Hey Hey” but it’s Vicious he was really singing about.
 
 September 30, 2019
 
 David Harris
 Spectrum Culture
 Sid and Nancy is a fascinating record of a volatile period in music history.
 
 February 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Alexa Dalby
 Dog and Wolf
 Sid & Nancy is a brutal tour de force.
 
 December 27, 2018 | Rating: B+
 
 Nathanael Hood
 Audiences Everywhere…

 

Plot
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Gary Oldman is outstanding as the late punk rock icon Sid Vicious.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures,
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Monterey Bay Aquarium – 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure
 
Keyword(s)
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine Hicks, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, directed by Leonard Nimoy, written by Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer, Adventure, PG, box office performance, $104.7M, reviewed by David Stratton, Michael Wilmington, Variety Staff, Pat Graham, Stephen Garrett, Steven D Greydanus, starring Admiral, Captain James T Kirk, Captain Spock, Dr Gillian Taylor, Commander Leonard H McCoy, M.D., Commander Hikaru Sulu, produced by Harve Bennett, Paramount Pictures, Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Surround, Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR, Scope (2.35:1), Star Trek
 

Cast & Crew

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

Catherine Hicks

DeForest Kelley

James Doohan

Admiral

Captain James T. Kirk

Captain Spock

Dr. Gillian Taylor

Commander Leonard H. McCoy

William Shatner – Admiral, Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy – Captain Spock
Catherine Hicks – Dr. Gillian Taylor
DeForest Kelley – Commander Leonard H. McCoy, M.D.
James Doohan – Captain Montgomery Scott
George Takei – Commander Hikaru Sulu

 

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy

Harve Bennett

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Leonard Nimoy
 
Writer(s)
Leonard Nimoy, Harve Bennett, Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett, Nicholas Meyer
 
Producer(s)
Harve Bennett

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 4 Oscars
4 wins & 19 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

David Stratton

Michael Wilmington

Variety Staff

Pat Graham

Stephen Garrett

Sydney Morning Herald

Los Angeles Times

Variety

Chicago Reader

Time Out

STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME
 All Critics (44) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (8)
 Much of the fun to be found in the quite witty screenplay involves the bemused citizens of the future trying to cope with 20th-century life.
 
 May 27, 2021
 
 David Stratton
 Sydney Morning Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 If most movies today are doomed to be sure-fire, presold properties–with ideas leached from our recent TV or cinematic past–let’s hope they’re all as good at the game as “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.”
 
 September 7, 2016
 
 Michael Wilmington
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Latest excursion is warmer, wittier, more socially relevant and truer to its TV origins than prior odysseys.
 
 May 19, 2008
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 I suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto.
 
 June 6, 2007
 
 Pat Graham
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 Kirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.
 
 January 26, 2006
 
 Stephen Garrett
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 The most successful and widely appealing of the Star Trek films, The Voyage Home is also the most idiosyncratic… some of the most humorous and humane moments in the Trek canon.
 
 June 24, 2003 | Rating: A
 
 Steven D. Greydanus
 Decent Films
 TOP CRITIC
 Offered quite a bit more levity than the previous films- or at least, as much as is possible for a movie that features the possible end of life on Earth.
 
 December 1, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Stephen Silver
 Tilt Magazine
 The comedy in this entry is so broad that the movie often doesn’t even feel like a Star Trek project (which of course explains its wide popularity).
 
 September 10, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 Time travel is a new concept for this series, and having the crew visit a familiar version of Earth is certainly an amusing idea; but why did it have to involve whales?
 
 September 8, 2020 | Rating: 4/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 As much a passionate, heavy-handed environmental screed as it is a flighty space opera, The Voyage Home can’t ever quite reconcile its disparate moods and ideas into a holistic experience.
 
 May 31, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5
 
 Shaun Munro
 Flickering Myth
 The marching orders here were for a romp, and a romp they produced.
 
 April 8, 2019 | Rating: B+
 
 Zaki Hasan
 Zaki’s Corner
 A bit flimsy to be legitimately counted as “great” Star Trek, but aware enough of its characters and their attachments to each other and the audience that it’s “fun” Star Trek.
 
 May 23, 2013 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Tim Brayton
 Antagony & Ecstasy…

 

Plot
The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time with an important message. It is the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien probe is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien to them as anything they have ever encountered in the far-off reaches of the galaxy. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy return as Kirk and Spock, along with the entire Star Trek crew.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny comment about the film in the Fresh Kernels database.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
National Geographic Documentary Films, Ventureland Storyteller Productions,
 
Distributor
Orion Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Old Tucson – 201 S. Kinney Road, Tucson, Arizona, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Western/Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Patrice Martinez, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, directed by John Landis, written by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman, Western, Comedy, PG, box office gross $36.2M, produced by George Folsey Jr., Lorne Michaels, reviewed by David Stratton, Dave Kehr, Patrick Goldstein, Carrie Rickey, Gene Siskel, Jay Boyar, Eddie Harrison, Dennis Schwartz, Lawrence O’Toole, Sky Staff, William Wolf, Three Amigos!, silent era, Mexican village, bandits, gunslingers, comedy, formulaic, predictable, high concept, Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, actors, mistaken identity, singing, dancing, fighting mariachis, public appearance, bullets, real, music, score, Randy Newman, ensemble, fresh, original, funny, rousingly fun, horror movies, MCU movies, Netflix series, TV shows, renewed, cancelled, worst horror movies, licensing, advertise, careers
 

Cast & Crew

Chevy Chase

Steve Martin

Martin Short

Patrice Martinez

Alfonso Arau

Dusty Bottoms

Lucky Day

Ned Nederlander

Carmen

El Guapo

Chevy Chase – Dusty Bottoms
Steve Martin – Lucky Day
Martin Short – Ned Nederlander
Patrice Martinez – Carmen
Alfonso Arau – El Guapo
Tony Plana – Jefe

 

John Landis

Steve Martin

George Folsey Jr.

Lorne Michaels

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
John Landis
 
Writer(s)
Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman
 
Producer(s)
George Folsey Jr., Lorne Michaels

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

David Stratton

Dave Kehr

Patrick Goldstein

Carrie Rickey

Gene Siskel

Sydney Morning Herald

Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles Times

Philadelphia Inquirer

Orlando Sentinel

THREE AMIGOS!
 All Critics (42) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (23)
 If Three Amigos is disappointing, it’s because the people involved have ail done better work in the past. But it’s not all bad.
 
 May 27, 2021
 
 David Stratton
 Sydney Morning Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s the laziness of the project that’s finally most galling.
 
 April 25, 2014 | Rating: 1/4
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 [Three Amigos is] a goofy delight. It’s like a cross between a big-budget Three Stooges movie and a Hope-Crosby road picture, with dozens of old cowpoke gags thrown in to spice up the brew.
 
 April 25, 2014
 
 Patrick Goldstein
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 While it’s occasionally funny, Three Amigos! isn’t an entirely fun occasion.
 
 April 25, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Carrie Rickey
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 TOP CRITIC
 You know it’s a boring comedy when you find yourself laughing only at the lead actors’ costumes.
 
 April 25, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 The happy-go-lucky Three Amigos is a picture to see when your expectations are down and you’ve already been to everything that’s good.
 
 April 25, 2014
 
 Jay Boyar
 Orlando Sentinel
 TOP CRITIC
 …a tribute to traditional Hollywood tropes that celebrates without too much mocking…
 
 May 13, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Eddie Harrison
 film-authority.com
 Directed without much wit by John Landis.
 
 July 29, 2020 | Rating: C+
 
 Dennis Schwartz
 Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
 The movie celebrates stupidity – and it is almost contagious.
 
 March 27, 2019
 
 Lawrence O’Toole
 Maclean’s Magazine
 Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short kept the saddles of comedy blazing with this wonderfully daft western.
 
 March 2, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Sky Staff
 Sky Cinema
 It’s nowhere near as funny as it should have been given the talent on show, but the chemistry between the stars and the gentle digs at the western genre make for a diverting enough entertainment.
 
 March 1, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 John Ferguson
 Radio Times
 Despite the promotional promise of Steve Martin. Chevy Chase, and Martin Short pictured under their huge sombreros, the holiday season comedy is almost as unfunny as a movie can get.
 
 March 1, 2019
 
 William Wolf
 Gannett News Service…

 

Plot
Three out of work silent movie actors are accidentally drawn to a Mexican village that is being harassed by a gang of outlaws. The three, ‘Ned’, ‘Lucky Day’ and ‘Dusty Bottoms’ play ‘Lone Ranger’ types in their movies, but must play their parts for real now.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The trio of gifted comedians in Three Amigos! includes Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures, Warner Home Vídeo, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
 
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Carolina Apartments, Market Street, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong disturbing violent and sexual content, some graphic nudity, and pervasive language
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, directed by David Lynch, written by David Lynch, produced by Fred C Caruso, drama, R rating, box office gross $8.6M, reviewed by Derek Malcolm, David Jenkins, Peter Bradshaw, Melissa Anderson, Pauline Kael, Sheila Benson, David Reddish, Brian Eggert, Sean Burns, Tom Meek, Mike Massie, Octavi Marti, Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont, Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Valens, Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth, Laura Dern as Sandy Williams, Fred C Caruso as producer, David Lynch as writer and director, Dolby sound mix, Paramount Pictures, Warner Home Vídeo, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc as distributors, severed ear, mystery, detective’s daughter, lounge singer, sexually depraved psychopath, surreal, subversive, film storytelling, psychosexual symbolism, film noir, linear approach, satire, psychosexual motivations, dreams, nightmares, Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams”, neo-noir style, classic mystery ideas, dark, creative, intriguing, top horror movies, RT Podcasts, most anticipated movies, best Netflix series, renewed & cancelled TV shows 2022
 

Cast & Crew

Kyle MacLachlan

Isabella Rossellini

Dennis Hopper

Laura Dern

Hope Lange

Jeffrey Beaumont

Dorothy Valens

Frank Booth

Sandy Williams

Mrs. Williams

CAST & CREW
– Kyle MacLachlan as Jeffrey Beaumont
– Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Valens
– Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth
– Laura Dern as Sandy Williams
– Hope Lange as Mrs. Williams
– Dean Stockwell as Ben
– Fred C. Caruso – Producer
– David Lynch – Director/Writer

 

David Lynch

David Lynch

Fred C. Caruso

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
David Lynch
 
Writer(s)
David Lynch
 
Producer(s)
Fred C. Caruso

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
18 wins & 18 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Derek Malcolm

David Jenkins

Peter Bradshaw

Melissa Anderson

Pauline Kael

Guardian

Little White Lies

Village Voice

New Yorker

Los Angeles Times

BLUE VELVET
  All Critics (80) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (4)
  Love it or hate it, see it you must.
 
  April 9, 2020
 
  Derek Malcolm
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Every viewing yields new insights. A berserko modern classic.
 
  December 2, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
 
  David Jenkins
  Little White Lies
  TOP CRITIC
  The film releases a toxic narcosis of fear.
 
  December 1, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Three decades after its initial release, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet has lost none of its power to derange, terrify, and exhilarate.
 
  March 22, 2016
 
  Melissa Anderson
  Village Voice
  TOP CRITIC
  The charged erotic atmosphere makes the film something of a hallucination, but Lynch’s humor keeps breaking through, too.
 
  March 15, 2015
 
  Pauline Kael
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  Shocking, visionary, rapturously controlled, its images of innocence and a dark, bruising sexuality drop straight into our unconscious where they rest like depth charges.
 
  November 14, 2014
 
  Sheila Benson
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Rossellini gives one of the bravest, most uninhibited performances weve ever seen. Movies dont get more stylish or twisted than Blue Velvet. Love it, hate it, laugh or scream: all reactions are totally valid.
 
  March 20, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  David Reddish
  Queerty
  To watch Blue Velvet is not to see only the dreadful, ugly parts of America; it’s about seeing the world itself from a unique angle, which is to say, from the surreal perspective of David Lynch.
 
  February 23, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  Thirty-five years later it’s still almost impossible to sit through and even more difficult to look away from.
 
  January 14, 2022
 
  Sean Burns
  Crooked Marquee
  My favorite Stockwell turn, and I think everyone’s favorite, was as a foppish nightclub singer crooning Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” in David Lynch’s edgy, atmospheric signature work…
 
  November 19, 2021
 
  Tom Meek
  Cambridge Day
  While many of Lynch’s films are bizarre just for the sake of being bizarre, this one appears purposeful as an excavation of disconcerting characters in threatening situations.
 
  August 31, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Blue Velvet is a nightmare, or better yet, a reverie on the dark side of desire. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
  March 10, 2020
 
  Octavi Marti
  El Pais (Spain)…

 

Plot
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his idyllic hometown of Lumberton to manage his father’s hardware store while his father is hospitalized. Walking though a grassy meadow near the family home, Jeffrey finds a severed human ear. After an initial investigation, lead police Detective John Williams advises Jeffrey not to speak to anyone about the case as they investigate further. Detective Williams also tells Jeffrey that he cannot divulge any information about what the police know. Detective Williams’ high school aged daughter, Sandy Williams, tells Jeffrey what she knows about the case from overhearing her father’s private conversations on the matter: that it has to do with a nightclub singer named Dorothy Vallens, who lives in an older apartment building near the Beaumont home. His curiosity getting the better of him, Jeffrey, with Sandy’s help, decides to find out more about the woman at the center of the case by breaking into Dorothy’s apartment while he knows she’s at work. What Jeffrey finds is a world unfamiliar to him, one that he doesn’t truly understand but one that he is unable to deny the lure of despite the inherent dangers of being associated with a possible murder. Still, he is torn between this world and the prospect of a relationship with Sandy, the two who are falling for each other, despite Sandy already being in a relationship with Mike, the school’s star football player.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Dennis Hopper’s performance as Frank Booth is “an Oscar-worthy performance” according to Fresh Kernels.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Eye Steel Film Téléfilm Canada Rogers Group of Fund,s
 
Distributor
Touchstone Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Walter Tevis, Richard Price, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Gene Siskel, Dave Kehr, Jay Boyar, Richard Schickel, Tom Hutchinson, Sean Axmaker, Matt Brunson, MPAA rating R, Touchstone Pictures, Irving Axelrod, Barbara De Fina, pool hustler, pool halls, scamming, mentor, pupil, opponent, sequel, The Hustler, pool-room culture, gamesmanship, split decision, soundtrack, Warren Zevon, pool tables, lounge lizard, pool shark, girlfriend, male ego, seedy, tension, witty dialogue, resolution, character development
 

Cast & Crew

Paul Newman

Tom Cruise

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Helen Shaver

John Turturro

Fast Eddie Felson

Vincent

Carmen

Janelle

Julian

Paul Newman – Fast Eddie Felson
Tom Cruise – Vincent
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Carmen
Helen Shaver – Janelle
John Turturro – Julian
Bill Cobbs – Orvis

 

Martin Scorsese

Walter Tevis

Irving Axelrod

Barbara De Fina

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Martin Scorsese
 
Writer(s)
Walter Tevis, Richard Price
 
Producer(s)
Irving Axelrod, Barbara De Fina

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
3 wins & 10 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Jason Bailey

Gene Siskel

Dave Kehr

Jay Boyar

Angie Errigo

Flavorwire

Chicago Tribune

Orlando Sentinel

Empire Magazine

TIME Magazine

THE COLOR OF MONEY
 All Critics (47) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (5)
 Yes, sure, this is mid-level Scorsese. But it says something about the director that his mid-level work still beats the hell out of just about anyone else’s best.
 
 April 8, 2017
 
 Jason Bailey
 Flavorwire
 TOP CRITIC
 The premise might sound interesting, but the plotting is so utterly predictable that The Color of Money turns into a pool-room variation of The Karate Kid.
 
 February 6, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 Gene Siskel
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 It is a surprise, and a disappointment.
 
 February 6, 2017 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 Though this is clearly Newman’s picture, Tom Cruise also is a joy to watch.
 
 February 6, 2017
 
 Jay Boyar
 Orlando Sentinel
 TOP CRITIC
 A joy to see two masters (Scorsese and Newman) at ease with their work, and one, Cruise, in the making.
 
 August 6, 2008 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Angie Errigo
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 We are not on Rocky’s side of the street, but in Martin Scorsese country, where bent character, not sentiment, shapes destiny, and the best the struggling human spirit can hope for is a split decision.
 
 August 1, 2008
 
 Richard Schickel
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Everything, including a splendid cast, works like a clockwork mechanism in which Scorsese faces youth with experience. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 August 27, 2019
 
 Alberto Abuín
 Espinof
 The confrontational climax never quite convinces, but Richard Price’s knockout script is one to treasure and director Martin Scorsese brings his trademark visual style to bear on the production.
 
 February 6, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Tom Hutchinson
 Radio Times
 [Scorsese] delivers the cinematic charge of the pool room culture of hustle and gamesmanship along with the education of a young protg lacking self and a mentor who has yet to face his own conflicted feelings about the game.
 
 December 15, 2016
 
 Sean Axmaker
 Seanax.com
 There’s nothing [Martin Scorsese] made so achingly generic and impersonal as this.
 
 October 25, 2014 | Rating: 5/10
 
 Tim Brayton
 Antagony & Ecstasy
 It’s entertaining and at times even insightful, but nowhere near as powerful-or memorable-as “The Hustler.”
 
 June 30, 2012 | Rating: 7/10
 
 James Plath
 Movie Metropolis
 Working with his crack technical team, Scorsese turns the film into a high-wire act, using everything from the crack of the balls to the soundtrack (best bit: Cruise playing and preening to Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London”) to pump up the action.
 
 June 14, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Creative Loafing…

 

Plot
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and Vincent’s girlfriend Carmen on a tour through the country to work the pool halls. However, Vincent’s tendency to show off his talent and by doing so warning off the players and losing money, soon leads to a confrontation with Eddie.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Tom Cruise’s performance in The Color of Money is described as “obnoxious overacting and toothy grinning” by one audience reviewer.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
ITVS International, Kartemquin Films, P.O.V., American Documentary
 
Distributor
MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Orion Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Tallahassee, Florida, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1986
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin, Tracey Walter, Dana Preu, Jack Gilpin, Charles Napier, John Sayles, John Waters, directed by Jonathan Demme, written by E Max Frye, comedy, R rating, box office gross $6.4M, reviewed by Dave Kehr, William Thomas, Sheila Benson, William Goss, Pat Graham, Octavi Marti, David Nusair, Roger Hurlburt, People Staff, MPAA rating R, produced by Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Orion Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp., quirky, likable leads, confident direction, unpredictable tonal twists, free-spirited, uptight banker, tryst, modest adventure, high school reunion, harmless, actual husband, confronts, ride off into the sunset, romantic dream, screwball comedy, quirky lines, characters, earnest intensity, liberating behavior, soundtrack music, offbeat entertainment, improvised bits, free-flowing narrative, spot-on performances, story, direction, dark and uncomfortable, thriller, unlikely couple, on the run, provincial version, nightmare, dead ends, red herrings, sweetly desperate, near-alcoholic, old-shoe, resolutely unshockable mother, disconnected actor, earnest intensity, liberating behavior, dimly written, characterized entirely in terms of the actors’ performances, clothes, soundtrack music, no real payoff
 

Cast & Crew

Jeff Daniels

Melanie Griffith

Ray Liotta

Margaret Colin

Tracey Walter

Charles Driggs

Audrey Hankel

Ray Sinclair

Irene

The Country Squire

Jeff Daniels – Charles Driggs
Melanie Griffith – Audrey Hankel
Ray Liotta – Ray Sinclair
Margaret Colin – Irene
Tracey Walter – The Country Squire
Dana Preu – Peaches

 

Jonathan Demme

E. Max Frye

Jonathan Demme

Kenneth Utt

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Jonathan Demme
 
Writer(s)
E. Max Frye
 
Producer(s)
Jonathan Demme, Kenneth Utt

 

Film Festivals
Tribeca
 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 6 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Dave Kehr

William Thomas

Sheila Benson

William Goss

Variety Staff

Chicago Tribune

Empire Magazine

Los Angeles Times

Film.com

Variety

SOMETHING WILD
 All Critics (46) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (4)
 It’s not every day that someone goes Alfred Hitchcock one better, but in ”Something Wild,” Jonathan Demme has done it.
 
 June 11, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 As an artefact from a period — the mid-80s — that produced almost nothing distinctive, this remains breezy fun.
 
 June 11, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 William Thomas
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 This is the Demme of “Melvin and Howard,” soaring back where he belongs, and long overdue too.
 
 June 11, 2020
 
 Sheila Benson
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 It begins with a meet-cute and ends with a murder, and sandwiched in between those emotional extremes are romance, regret and revenge.
 
 May 17, 2011
 
 William Goss
 Film.com
 TOP CRITIC
 Conceptually and stylistically compelling under Jonathan Demme’s sometimes striking direction, this offbeat thriller is about an unlikely couple on the run.
 
 July 6, 2010
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Jonathan Demme’s picaresque joyride across the American landscape is still arguably the best thing he’s ever done.
 
 December 26, 2006
 
 Pat Graham
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 ‘Something Wild’ plays like a screwball Hitchcock film reworked for the freewheeling eighties indie culture. It’s playful and colorful but doesn’t shy away from the darkness at the end of the road.
 
 June 3, 2022
 
 Sean Axmaker
 Stream on Demand
 Something Wild is fun, at first. Then it becomes deadly and weird and engrossing. Predictable it is not.
 
 June 11, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Roger Hurlburt
 South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 Buy a ticket to this whirligig of a movie at your own risk. You enter a fun house and exit through a chamber of horrors. But director Jonathan Demme provides a heck of a ride.
 
 June 11, 2020
 
 People Staff
 People Magazine
 Something Wild is an excellent movie about the fragility of people’s images. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 April 21, 2020
 
 Octavi Marti
 El Pais (Spain)
 It’s a rather routine storyline that’s perpetually employed to striking, enthralling effect by Demme…
 
 April 21, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 David Nusair
 Reel Film Reviews
 The end’s not unexpected, and the soundtrack’s overloaded with songs, but once Something Wild gets really wild — with Daniels and Griffith and Demme’s fringe comedy at their best — the movie makes its mark as offbeat entertainment.
 
 February 26, 2020
 
 Judith Crist
 WWOR-TV (NJ)…

 

Plot
The uneventful life of the businessman Charles Driggs suddenly changes when he meets the wild and sexy Lulu. When he accepts her offer to drive him back to his office, she instead takes him out of town and on a trip, leaving behind his old life. Posing as a married couple, Charles and “Audrey” (which turns out to be Lulu’s real name) visit her mother and her high school reunion. At this reunion they meet Audrey’s violent ex-husband Ray, who has just released from prison. When Ray makes it clear that he wants Audrey back, that is when the real trouble begins.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Ray Liotta makes his film debut in Something Wild as the psychotic ex-husband of Melanie Griffith’s character.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Discovery Channel, Jigsaw Productions, Tall Woods
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Orion Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Knightstown, Indiana, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1987
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper, Sheb Wooley, Fern Persons, Brad Boyle, directed by David Anspaugh, written by Angelo Pizzo, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Chris Stuckmann, Steven D Greydanus, Richard Schickel, Rick Groen, Pat Graham, James Berardinelli, Mike Massie, Matt Brunson, Ángel Luis Inurria, Rachel Wagner, Emanuel Levy, Randy White, PG rating, high school basketball, sports underdog, redemption, community criticism, unconventional coaching, alcoholism, teacher-student relationship, small town, Indiana, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Orion Pictures, Surround sound, Stereo sound
 

Cast & Crew

Gene Hackman

Barbara Hershey

Dennis Hopper

Sheb Wooley

Fern Persons

Coach Norman Dale

Myra Fleener

Shooter

Cletus

Opal Fleener

Gene Hackman – Coach Norman Dale
Barbara Hershey – Myra Fleener
Dennis Hopper – Shooter
Sheb Wooley – Cletus
Fern Persons – Opal Fleener
Brad Boyle – Whit

 

David Anspaugh

Angelo Pizzo

Angelo Pizzo

Carter DeHaven

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
David Anspaugh
 
Writer(s)
Angelo Pizzo
 
Producer(s)
Angelo Pizzo, Carter DeHaven

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
3 wins & 5 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Chris Stuckmann

Steven D. Greydanus

Richard Schickel

Rick Groen

Pat Graham

ChrisStuckmann.com

Decent Films

TIME Magazine

Globe and Mail

Chicago Reader

HOOSIERS
  All Critics (46) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (4)
  This film has so much heart. Every time I watch it, I am on the verge of tears for almost the entire runtime.
 
  February 17, 2021 | Rating: A
 
  Chris Stuckmann
  ChrisStuckmann.com
  TOP CRITIC
  The filmmakers are at the top of their game.
 
  October 29, 2008 | Rating: A-
 
  Steven D. Greydanus
  Decent Films
  TOP CRITIC
  Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger.
 
  August 1, 2008
 
  Richard Schickel
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Shameless, yes, but open your eyes, close your mind, sit back and enjoy.
 
  March 21, 2007
 
  Rick Groen
  Globe and Mail
  TOP CRITIC
  Bobby Knight would not be amused, though Tark the Shark might’ve had a good laugh at the naive masquerade.
 
  March 21, 2007
 
  Pat Graham
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Basketball movies don’t get any better.
 
  March 21, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  James Berardinelli
  ReelViews
  TOP CRITIC
  There are quite a number of practicing and shooting and gameplay montages, but it’s actually the character interactions that remain most stirring.
 
  January 2, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Much of its appeal comes courtesy of Gene Hackman, whose work here — a canny mix of aw-shucks bluster and below-the-surface slyness — was a warm-up for the career-best performance he would deliver two years later in Mississippi Burning.
 
  June 7, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Hoosiers benefits from David Anspaugh’s experience as a TV director, from the soundtrack, and the performances. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
  March 26, 2020
 
  Ángel Luis Inurria
  El Pais (Spain)
  Hoosier certainly qualifies [as a great sports moive].
 
  June 28, 2019
 
  Rachel Wagner
  Rachel’s Reviews (YouTube)
  An enjoyable, if conventional and manipulative small-town sports melodrama, boasting strong turns from Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper, who received his only acting nomination for his part.
 
  April 22, 2012 | Rating: B
 
  Emanuel Levy
  EmanuelLevy.Com
  A tale of heroic sportsmanship.
 
  January 2, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Randy White
  Common Sense Media…

 

Plot
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town’s basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Dennis Hopper received his only Academy Award nomination for his role as Shooter in Hoosiers.
 

 
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