Production Company(ies)
Depth Of Field Productions, Disney+, ImageMovers, The Walt Disney Studios
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Streaming, Streaming (Disney+)
 
Filming Location(s)
Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom; Tuscany, Italy
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
2022
 

 
Genre(s)
Kids & family/Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Cynthia Erivo, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Keegan-Michael Key, Lorraine Bracco, directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Chris Weitz, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, PG rating, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Peter Travers, Randy Myers, David Sims, John DeFore, Jake Wilson, Keith Uhlich, Jennifer Green, Robert W Butler, Mat Brunet, Jeremy Jahns, Lynn Venhaus, produced by Robert Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, Geppetto, Pinocchio, Blue Fairy, Jiminy Cricket, Honest John, Sofia the Seagull, The Coachman, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
 

Cast & Crew

Tom Hanks

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth

Cynthia Erivo

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Keegan-Michael Key

Geppetto

Pinocchio

Blue Fairy

Jiminy Cricket

Honest John

Tom Hanks – Geppetto
Benjamin Evan Ainsworth – Pinocchio (Voice)
Cynthia Erivo – Blue Fairy
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Jiminy Cricket (Voice)
Keegan-Michael Key – Honest John (Voice)
Lorraine Bracco – Sofia the Seagull (Voice)
Luke Evans – The Coachman
Robert Zemeckis – Director/Producer/Writer
Derek Hogue – Producer
Andrew Miano – Producer
Chris Weitz – Producer/Writer
Paul Weitz – Producer

 

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

Derek Hogue

Andrew Miano

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Robert Zemeckis
 
Writer(s)
Robert Zemeckis, Chris Weitz
 
Producer(s)
Robert Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Peter Travers

Randy Myers

David Sims

John DeFore

Jake Wilson

ABC News

San Jose Mercury News

The Atlantic

Hollywood Reporter

The Age (Australia)

PINOCCHIO All Critics (149) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (109) Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee, it didn’t work for me.  September 16, 2022  Peter Travers ABC News TOP CRITIC A misguided redo.  September 14, 2022 | Rating: 1.5/4  Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News TOP CRITIC Instead of capturing the old-school charm of the original, the new film looks as dead-eyed as one of Zemeckis’s motion-capture characters, as it recites the familiar fable of the puppet who wanted to be a boy.  September 12, 2022  David Sims The Atlantic TOP CRITIC A well-intentioned work that largely falls flat, it arrives as just another widget in Disney’s “remake ’em all!” agenda, one whose pedigree offered the hope of something better.  September 9, 2022  John DeFore Hollywood Reporter TOP CRITIC The verbal jokes for adults barely raise a smile, but Zemeckis visually remains the pro he’s always been, moving smoothly through a stylised world.  September 8, 2022 | Rating: 3/5  Jake Wilson The Age (Australia) TOP CRITIC Think of this Pinocchio, at its best, as Zemeckis’s conglomerate-backed cultural critique, a nauseated state of the artistic union typified by a scene in which our little timber-carved innocent quizzically contemplates a steaming pile of horse dung.  September 8, 2022  Keith Uhlich (All (Parentheses)) TOP CRITIC Frequent peril in live-action/CGI version of classic tale.  September 17, 2022 | Rating: 3/5  Jennifer Green Common Sense Media Not even Tom Hanks in front of the camera or Robert Zemeckis behind it can make this blatantly opportunistic effort resonate.  September 16, 2022 | Rating: C  Robert W. Butler Butler’s Cinema Scene Even by Disney live-action remake standards, [Pinocchio] is quite subpar and it’s all because it tries way too hard at everything to the point that it no longer becomes enjoyable.  September 16, 2022 | Rating: 4/10  Mat Brunet AniMat’s Review (YouTube) The movie falls in two camps. One adds new stuff that feels like it serves no other purpose than to pad the runtime… or two, does exactly what the animation did, it just doesn’t do it nearly as well.  September 16, 2022  Jeremy Jahns JeremyJahns.com Here, they have unfortunately decided to intrude on the 19th century European setting and freshen it up with Honest John talking about social media influencers and acting like he’s snapping a photo with a cell phone. Huh?  September 16, 2022 | Rating: C-  Lynn Venhaus Webster-Kirkwood Times Dull and uninspired.  September 16, 2022  Kristen Maldonado Pop Culture Planet…

 

Plot
The classic Disney animated film is brought to life in this live action adaptation about a wooden puppet whose one wish is to become a real boy.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
When Pinocchio is playing pool, the balls on the table constantly move around between each shot when nobody has touched them.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Buffalo Film Works Paramount Pictures, Platinum Dunes
 
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)
New York City, New York, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate

 
Year of Release
2022
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Vanessa Kirby, David Ajala, Annika Wahlsten, Lars Wahlsten, Neil Comber, Misha Brooks, Simon Brickner, directed by Adam Leon, written by Adam Leon, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Christy Lemire, Randy Myers, Glenn Kenny, Guy Lodge, David Fear, Carlos Aguilar, David Gonzalez, Dan Bayer, Joel Copling, Dennis Schwartz, Jared Mobarak, produced by Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker-Parton, Jason Reif, Andrea Roa, Jamund Washington, MPAA rating, dislocation, connection, identity, London, New York City, memory loss, short stories, cityscape, music, free-spirited, teenager, friendship, dissociative fugue, writer, Manhattan, time, place, magnetism, superficial, unmoored, lyrical, elusive nature, fragments, imagined conversations, multidimensional, low-wattage, unpredictable, disappointing, dreamy, confusing, human, random events, interpretation, marks, audience score, streaming, rent, buy
 

Cast & Crew

Vanessa Kirby

David Ajala

Annika Wahlsten

Lars Wahlsten

Neil Comber

Alina Reynolds

Ade

Annika

Lars

Neil

Vanessa Kirby – Alina Reynolds
David Ajala – Ade
Annika Wahlsten – Annika
Lars Wahlsten – Lars
Neil Comber – Neil
Misha Brooks – Hasidic Man #1

 

Adam Leon

Adam Leon

Joshua Astrachan

Brad Becker-Parton

Jason Reif

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Adam Leon
 
Writer(s)
Adam Leon
 
Producer(s)
Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker-Parton, Jason Reif, Andrea Roa, Jamund Washington

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Christy Lemire

Randy Myers

Glenn Kenny

Guy Lodge

David Fear

Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)

Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

Glenn Kenny

ITALIAN STUDIES
 All Critics (49) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (30)
 I don’t really know what they’re aiming for here… There needs to be a point to why we’re telling this particular story in this particular way.
 
 January 26, 2022
 
 Christy Lemire
 FilmWeek (KPCC – NPR Los Angeles)
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s only 81 minutes long but feels like an eternity or two.
 
 January 20, 2022 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Randy Myers
 San Jose Mercury News
 TOP CRITIC
 Its idea of time is multidimensional, as is its idea of form.
 
 January 19, 2022
 
 Glenn Kenny
 New York Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Adam Leon’s brief, stylish film never fully unpacks its intriguing premise, but gains feeling and texture from Kirby’s performance as a writer in a dissociative fugue.
 
 January 15, 2022
 
 Guy Lodge
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 For a long stretch, Italian Studies turns this trip down memory-loss lane into a low-wattage livewire, an unpredictable stroll into the unknown.
 
 January 14, 2022
 
 David Fear
 Rolling Stone
 TOP CRITIC
 Mildly auspicious if ultimately disappointing.
 
 January 14, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 Carlos Aguilar
 RogerEbert.com
 TOP CRITIC
 Ultimately, Italian Studies leaves the door between the real and the fictional world wide open. Its spontaneity makes the film, not the worst, but the most disappointing film of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
 
 June 10, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 David Gonzalez
 Reel Talk Inc.
 An indulgent, dreamy doodle of a film that chases its own tail for most of its 80 minutes before deciding to wrap itself up in a neat little bow and end.
 
 May 10, 2022 | Rating: 5/10
 
 Dan Bayer
 Next Best Picture
 It seems as if Leon began with a genuinely thoughtful movie and pared it down to the barest essentials though not the essential elements to tell a story.
 
 April 1, 2022
 
 Joel Copling
 Spectrum Culture
 The acting is quite good on the part of the lead actress.
 
 February 21, 2022
 
 Dennis Schwartz
 Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
 A woman floats through the streets of a big city trying to regain her memory. In this movie confusion reigns both on screen and in the minds of the audience.
 
 February 4, 2022 | Rating: 3/10
 
 Jackie K. Cooper
 jackiekcooper.com
 Random events leave marks. Memory interprets what those marks are. It’s by no means a perfect system, but it’s what makes us human.
 
 February 3, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
 
 Jared Mobarak
 Jaredmobarak.com…

 

Plot
While visiting New York City, writer Alina Reynolds loses her memory and becomes adrift on the streets of Manhattan, finding an anchor in charismatic teenager Simon and his free-spirited group of friends in the lyrical drama Italian Studies.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Why Not Productions, Chic Films, Page 114
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Reno/Tahoe International Airport – 2001 E. Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for some sex-related humor and drug references
 
Year of Release
1997
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer, Bruce Greenwood, directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, produced by Joel Silver, Ivan Reitman, comedy, drama, PG-13, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Carol Buckland, Joe Morgenstern, Desson Thomson, Michael Wilmington, Steven Rea, Robert Dominguez, MPAA rating, lawyer, artist, affair, missing son, fatherhood, Sugar Ray, Mel Gibson cameo, My Two Dads premise, ad libs, improvisation, Valuable Lessons, huggy moments, sexual innuendo, implacable unfunniness, maudlin misfire, painful, tedious, awful, contrived, pointless, weak script, poor pacing, predictable, unfunny, comedy dream team, Sugar Ray-obsessed teenage wastoid, non-hijinx, drags on, Robin Williams shtick, Billy Crystal shtick, Nastassja Kinski terrible performance, Charlie Hofheimer missing son, Collette Andrews, Bob Andrews
 

Cast & Crew

Robin Williams

Dale Putley

Billy Crystal

Jack Lawrence

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Dale Putley

Jack Lawrence

Carrie Lawrence

Collette Andrews

Scott Andrews

Robin Williams – Dale Putley
Billy Crystal – Jack Lawrence
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Carrie Lawrence
Nastassja Kinski – Collette Andrews
Charlie Hofheimer – Scott Andrews
Bruce Greenwood – Bob Andrews

 

Ivan Reitman

NA

Joel Silver

Ivan Reitman

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Ivan Reitman
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
Joel Silver, Ivan Reitman

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 nomination
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Carol Buckland

Joe Morgenstern

Desson Thomson

Michael Wilmington

Steven Rea

CNN.com

Wall Street Journal

Washington Post

Chicago Tribune

Philadelphia Inquirer

FATHERS’ DAY
 All Critics (61) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (46)
 Father’s Day has a few laugh-out-loud sequences, but it’s nothing to celebrate.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Carol Buckland
 CNN.com
 TOP CRITIC
 A movie of implacable unfunniness.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Joe Morgenstern
 Wall Street Journal
 TOP CRITIC
 For the comic actors, this project — an enjoyable synthesis of improvisation and adherence to the original story — seems almost too easy. You wonder why it took them so long.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Desson Thomson
 Washington Post
 TOP CRITIC
 Williams and Crystal often supply, through their ad libs, what the writers may have left out.
 
 July 14, 2014 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Michael Wilmington
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 Hey, it sounded good on paper.
 
 July 14, 2014 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Steven Rea
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 TOP CRITIC
 Despite some laughs, there’s not much of a story. But at least Williams and Crystal, old pals off the screen, seem to be enjoying themselves.
 
 July 14, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
 Robert Dominguez
 New York Daily News
 TOP CRITIC
 It’s a wonder that these stars couldn’t produce a funnier result, even with the faults of a weak script and poor pacing.
 
 September 11, 2020 | Rating: 2/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 This thoroughly sad and lazy comedy pairs Robin Williams and Billy Crystal as would-be fathers searching for a Sugar Ray-obsessed teenage wastoid. Unfunny non-hijinx ensue.
 
 August 4, 2020 | Rating: 1/5
 
 Daniel Barnes
 Dare Daniel
 Fathers’ Day scoots along pleasantly but never rises above its My Two Dads sitcom premise.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Leah Rozen
 People Magazine
 This had the potential to be hilarious, but instead falls alarmingly flat thanks to a weak and jokeless script that even the combined comedic talents of Williams and Crystal can’t perk up.
 
 July 14, 2014 | Rating: 2/5
 
 Jo Berry
 Radio Times
 Likable performances, but the story’s brash and hyper, though sweet, delivery grows wearing, especially the sexual innuendo.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Katherine Dillin
 Christian Science Monitor
 The plot is full of the kind of holes necessary to set up cream-puff moments where everybody turns huggy and learns Valuable Lessons. Ugh.
 
 July 14, 2014
 
 Rod Dreher
 South Florida Sun-Sentinel…

 

Plot
Jack Lawrence is a smart aleck lawyer who is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid was his. Enter Dale Putley, a depressed goofball who is also a writer, meets with the same ex-girlfriend who tells him her kid is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover what had happened: they’ve been told the same story and now there’s a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band called Sugar Ray around. So Jack and Dale hit the road to Sacramento and find their drunk, love-struck son. Soon after they bring him back to their hotel room, their son escapes and Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him again, bring him home, and find out which one of them is the real father.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The film stars Billy Crystal and Robin Williams, two comedic powerhouses who unfortunately fail to deliver in this maudlin misfire.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Apatow Productions, Film Nation Entertainment, Story Ink
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1983
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure/Action
 
Keyword(s)
starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Robert Vaughn, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder, Annette O’Toole, directed by Richard Lester, written by David Newman, Leslie Newman, Adventure/Action, box office performance, budget, reviewed by James Berardinelli, William Thomas, Linda Deutsch, Gary Arnold, Variety Staff, Geoff Andrew, Alan Ng, Mike Massie, Matthew Rozsa, Lawrence O’Toole, People Staff, PG, Pierre Spengler, Superman, computer programmer, financial tycoon, weather satellite, kryptonite, Colombia’s coffee crop, mortal weakness, tar, sound mix, surround
 

Cast & Crew

Christopher Reeve

Richard Pryor

Robert Vaughn

Jackie Cooper

Margot Kidder

Clark Kent

Superman

Gus Gorman

Ross Webster

Perry White

Christopher Reeve – Clark Kent, Superman
Richard Pryor – Gus Gorman
Robert Vaughn – Ross Webster
Jackie Cooper – Perry White
Margot Kidder – Lois Lane
Annette O’Toole – Lana Lang

 

Richard Lester

David Newman

Pierre Spengler

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Richard Lester
 
Writer(s)
David Newman, Leslie Newman
 
Producer(s)
Pierre Spengler

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 7 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

James Berardinelli

William Thomas

Linda Deutsch

Gary Arnold

Variety Staff

ReelViews

Empire Magazine

Associated Press

Washington Post

Variety

SUPERMAN III
 All Critics (55) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (39)
 The plot is nonsensical, as if different scenes were written in isolation without any conception of how to connect them together.
 
 November 30, 2021 | Rating: 1.5/4
 
 James Berardinelli
 ReelViews
 TOP CRITIC
 The action is good but this doesn’t move the audience in the same way as the first two.
 
 August 13, 2020 | Rating: 3/5
 
 William Thomas
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Superman III may be the saddest dissappointment of the summer movie season.
 
 March 4, 2019
 
 Linda Deutsch
 Associated Press
 TOP CRITIC
 Reeve, the ongoing justification for the series, is no longer contractually obligated after this episode, and his liberation comes not an installment too soon.
 
 April 23, 2018
 
 Gary Arnold
 Washington Post
 TOP CRITIC
 Putting its emphasis on broad comedy at the expense of ingenious plotting and technical wizardry, it has virtually none of the mythic or cosmic sensibility that marked its predecessors.
 
 March 26, 2009
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Enjoyable, nevertheless.
 
 June 24, 2006
 
 Geoff Andrew
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 The franchise is guaranteed money, so why did Warner Brothers decide to spend even less money on this trash?
 
 February 16, 2022 | Rating: 5/10
 
 Alan Ng
 Film Threat
 Perhaps most unfitting of all is Ken Thorne’s new score, which is peppered with circusy ditties, sound effects, and musical cues.
 
 January 2, 2022 | Rating: 2/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 See this movie for Richard Pryor. Play on your cell phone during the rest. Frankly it’s what Gus Gorman would want you to do.
 
 January 9, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Matthew Rozsa
 matthewrozsa.com
 The film’s predecessors were extremely smooth renderings of the comic strip material, but Superman III looks as chintzy as a Grade-B movie serial.
 
 August 13, 2020
 
 Lawrence O’Toole
 Maclean’s Magazine
 If not as exhilarating as Superman II, Superman III is surprising and boisterously witty.
 
 August 13, 2020
 
 People Staff
 People Magazine
 One expects romance, humor and grandeur, but only gets a frustrating mixture of failed opportunities and missed chances. Bummer.
 
 August 13, 2020
 
 J.A. Conner
 Santa Cruz Sentinel…

 

Plot
Clark travels to Smallville for his Highscool Reunion and reconnect with his childhood sweetheart Lana Lang. Computer programmer Gus Gorman is hired by financial tycoon Ross, to Take control of the coffee business by wiping out all the competition via Satellite. After Superman destroyed there plan Ross Makes Gus figure out how to find Kryptonite to eliminate Superman, but uses Tar as the missing element. Causes an unusual effect on Superman. Meanwhile Gus’s gets his machine he wanted built that can do anything you want it to do.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Richard Pryor’s performance in Superman III is often cited as one of the few highlights of the film.
 

 
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