Production Company(ies)
Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment,
 
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Courthouse Square, Backlot, Universal Studios – 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1984
 

 
Genre(s)
Holiday/Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Polly Holliday, Scott Brady, directed by Joe Dante, written by Chris Columbus, holiday, fantasy, comedy, horror, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Peter Bradshaw, Richard Corliss, Peter Travers, Michael Wilmington, Glenn Heath Jr., Robbie Collin, Eddie Harrison, Samuel R Murrian, Rachel Wagner, David Nusair, Mike Massie, PG rating, produced by Michael Finnell, Warner Bros Pictures, Mogwai, gremlins, Christmas, consumer culture, violence, dark humor, Looney Tunes style, horror-comedy, family-friendly, merchandising
 

Cast & Crew

Zach Galligan

Phoebe Cates

Hoyt Axton

Frances Lee McCain

Polly Holliday

Billy Peltzer

Kate

Rand Peltzer

Lynn Peltzer

Mrs. Ruby Deagle

Zach Galligan – Billy Peltzer
Phoebe Cates – Kate
Hoyt Axton – Rand Peltzer
Frances Lee McCain – Lynn Peltzer
Polly Holliday – Mrs. Ruby Deagle
Scott Brady – Sheriff Frank
Director – Joe Dante
Producer – Michael Finnell
Writer – Chris Columbus

 

Joe Dante

Chris Columbus

Michael Finnell

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Joe Dante
 
Writer(s)
Chris Columbus
 
Producer(s)
Michael Finnell

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
8 wins & 6 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Peter Bradshaw

Richard Corliss

Peter Travers

Michael Wilmington

Glenn Heath Jr.

Guardian

TIME Magazine

People Magazine

Chicago Tribune

Little White Lies

GREMLINS
 All Critics (75) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (11)
 It is a wacky, satirical spectacle of chaos.
 
 December 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 A wildly original roller-coaster ride of hilarious mischief.
 
 December 6, 2013
 
 Richard Corliss
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 Here’s the season’s most delicious and unexpected surprise. Despite the horror-flick title, Gremlins is a movie of wicked wit and startling invention, and it has a heart that’s at least a match for the special effects.
 
 December 6, 2013
 
 Peter Travers
 People Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 A horror-comedy about cute little Christmas toy/pets who turn into murderous monsters wreaking havoc on a Norman Rockwellian town.
 
 December 4, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Michael Wilmington
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 Brilliantly potent social critique of Reagan-era fear-mongering and consumerism.
 
 December 6, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Glenn Heath Jr.
 Little White Lies
 TOP CRITIC
 The 1984 creature feature in which a Capra-esque idyll is besieged by ravening beasties.
 
 December 6, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Robbie Collin
 Daily Telegraph (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 …this ‘gift of the mogwai’ continually ups the ante in terms of the cartoonish action…
 
 December 24, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Eddie Harrison
 film-authority.com
 The foremost pleasure of Gremlins (and the crux of its marketing) is the sight of those little monsters wreaking havoc… There’s more to it, though: Gremlins is a movie we feel good about watching because we’re proud of the characters.
 
 December 23, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Samuel R. Murrian
 Parade Magazine
 A great family friendly holiday horror movie
 
 December 14, 2021
 
 Rachel Wagner
 Rachel’s Reviews (YouTube)
 …a genuine classic that holds up remarkably well all these years later.
 
 November 3, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 David Nusair
 Reel Film Reviews
 A thrilling anti-Christmas product, effectively mocking other no-nonsense evil alien endeavors to become a staple of the horror comedy subgenre.
 
 September 6, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 GREMLINS is definitely a product of its time, but it’s got a lot of heart.
 
 June 22, 2020 | Rating: 5/10
 
 Sarah Musnicky
 Nightmarish Conjurings…

 

Plot
Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and no bright light. Hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell. So, when your washing machine blows up or your TV goes on the fritz, before you call the repair man, turn on all the lights and look under all the beds. ‘Cause you never can tell, there just might be a gremlin in your house.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
No goofy or funny comments were found in the Fresh Kernels review for Gremlins.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1983
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Kristin Holby, Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by John Landis, written by Timothy Hyde Harris, Herschel Weingrod, comedy, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Derek Malcolm, Yardena Arar, Gary Arnold, Richard Schickel, Dave Kehr, Variety Staff, Fico Cangiano, Allison Rose, Matt Brunson, Danielle Solzman, Sezín Koehler, MPAA rating R, social satire, successful brokers, framed, street-smart, upper-crust executive, down-and-out hustler, bet, meddling oldsters, gentlemanly servant, Christmas film, racial aspects, American context, deft interplay, immensely appealing, turn the tables, screwball comedy, crudest audience-gratification elements, morally complicated, light romp, strong themes, iconic architecture, historic statues, intersection of race and class, well-constructed, organized
 

Cast & Crew

Dan Aykroyd

Eddie Murphy

Ralph Bellamy

Don Ameche

Denholm Elliott

Louis Winthorpe III

Billy Ray Valentine

Randolph Duke

Mortimer Duke

Coleman

Dan Aykroyd – Louis Winthorpe III
Eddie Murphy – Billy Ray Valentine
Ralph Bellamy – Randolph Duke
Don Ameche – Mortimer Duke
Denholm Elliott – Coleman
Kristin Holby – Penelope Witherspoon

 

John Landis

Timothy Hyde Harris

Aaron Russo

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
John Landis
 
Writer(s)
Timothy Hyde Harris, Herschel Weingrod
 
Producer(s)
Aaron Russo

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
3 wins & 5 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Derek Malcolm

Yardena Arar

Gary Arnold

Richard Schickel

Dave Kehr

Guardian

Associated Press

Washington Post

TIME Magazine

Chicago Reader

TRADING PLACES
 All Critics (51) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (6)
 Trading Places, in this of all Hollywood years, is a joy to behold — clever without being smart, affectionate without being sentimental, They can make movies like they used to after all.
 
 August 20, 2021
 
 Derek Malcolm
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 Landis’ direction is deft, but the sparkling performances are the real draw not only by Murphy and Aykroyd but also by Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as the meddling oldsters, Denholm Elliott as the gentlemanly servant and Jamie Lee Curtis.
 
 October 23, 2018
 
 Yardena Arar
 Associated Press
 TOP CRITIC
 Trading Places is a comedy of unavoidable fits and starts.
 
 November 23, 2015
 
 Gary Arnold
 Washington Post
 TOP CRITIC
 Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with.
 
 April 2, 2008
 
 Richard Schickel
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 This 1983 film re-creates a screwball comedy format and then eliminates everything but the crudest audience-gratification elements; any incursions into the more morally complicated side of the genre are quickly curtailed.
 
 April 2, 2008
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 Trading Places is a light romp geared up by the schtick shifted by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
 
 April 2, 2008
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd are quite the duo in this funny Christmas film with some strong themes under its hood. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 December 9, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5
 
 Fico Cangiano
 CineXpress Podcast
 Since 48 hrs. had yet to be released, Landis and the studio took a big risk casting Murphy, fortunately, the gamble (pun intended) paid off.
 
 December 9, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
 Allison Rose
 FlickDirect
 The two stars (especially Murphy) are terrific, and the supporting cast provides additional flavor.
 
 December 5, 2020 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 …Trading Places is still funny with thanks to Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy but some of the film’s racial aspects are problematic in this era.
 
 December 1, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Danielle Solzman
 Solzy at the Movies
 Juxtaposing iconic architecture and historic statues with this heavily loaded satire examining the intersection of race and class situate Trading Places firmly in its American context.
 
 May 23, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Sezín Koehler
 Black Girl Nerds
 Trading Places is an excellent comedy — a bit cold and cerebral, but well-constructed and organized. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 September 24, 2019
 
 Octavi Marti
 El Pais (Spain)…

 

Plot
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it’s a person’s environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe’s job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels praises the “deft interplay” between Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Road Movies Filmproduktion, Argos Films, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Hope, British Columbia, Canada
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1982
 

 
Genre(s)
Action/Adventure
 
Keyword(s)
starring Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, David Caruso, Jack Starrett, Michael Talbot, Buzz Feitshans, Herb Nanas, directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone, David Morrell, action, adventure, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Kevin Maher, Peter Bradshaw, Michael Sragow, Stanley Kauffmann, James Berardinelli, Keith Uhlich, Mike Massie, Richard Freedman, Matt Brunson, Sean Chandler, Diego Galán, producer Buzz Feitshans, Herb Nanas, R rating, Vietnam veteran, survival adventure, intolerance, brutality, prisoner of war, manhunt, hunters, hunted, Rambo
 

Cast & Crew

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Brian Dennehy

David Caruso

Jack Starrett

Rambo

Trautman

Teasle

Mitch

Galt

Sylvester Stallone – Rambo
Richard Crenna – Trautman
Brian Dennehy – Teasle
David Caruso – Mitch
Jack Starrett – Galt
Michael Talbot – Balford
Buzz Feitshans – Producer
Herb Nanas – Producer
Ted Kotcheff – Director
Michael Kozoll – Writer
William Sackheim – Writer
Sylvester Stallone – Writer
David Morrell – Writer

 

Ted Kotcheff

Michael Kozoll

Buzz Feitshans

Herb Nanas

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Ted Kotcheff
 
Writer(s)
Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, Sylvester Stallone, David Morrell
 
Producer(s)
Buzz Feitshans, Herb Nanas

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 2 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Kevin Maher

Peter Bradshaw

Michael Sragow

Stanley Kauffmann

James Berardinelli

Times

Guardian

Rolling Stone

The New Republic

ReelViews

FIRST BLOOD
 All Critics (49) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (7)
 Stallone brought intense physicality, obviously, but also hangdog vulnerability to a character who takes revenge on a cruel, unfeeling establishment and utters some of the most iconic lines in shoot’em’up history.
 
 June 24, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Kevin Maher
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 Watchable if entirely preposterous…
 
 June 23, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 An ambitious, bloody, talented but pulpy mess.
 
 June 21, 2022
 
 Michael Sragow
 Rolling Stone
 TOP CRITIC
 There’s another appeal in Rambo. Simplicity. Successful action justifies all.
 
 January 8, 2018
 
 Stanley Kauffmann
 The New Republic
 TOP CRITIC
 The darker tone, somber subtext, and generally non-exploitative violence allow viewers to enjoy the film not only as an action/thriller but as something with a degree of intelligence and substance.
 
 April 30, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
 
 James Berardinelli
 ReelViews
 TOP CRITIC
 The entryway to the disturbed psychological headspace of a single man, one bent evermore on survival, instinct trumping all.
 
 June 14, 2008
 
 Keith Uhlich
 UGO
 TOP CRITIC
 Pushed-to-the-edge survivalist John Rambo raised the bar significantly for action heroes.
 
 September 6, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Considerably “less thoughtful than, say, Coming Home on a similar subject, First Blood so revels In sadism that Its high-minded pretenses are quickly washed away in blood — first, last and always.
 
 May 12, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Richard Freedman
 Newhouse News Service
 The first and best of the franchise.
 
 September 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 While the sequels may have tarnished it’s reputation, Rambo’s original adventure is a great action-thriller and character study.
 
 September 17, 2019 | Rating: A-
 
 Sean Chandler
 Sean Chandler Talks About
 The movie makes the protagonist into a new hero, which is why he doesn’t die, although in the excellent original novel his defeat was precisely the message. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 August 27, 2019
 
 Diego Galán
 El Pais (Spain)
 There’s no trace of the Rambo that would become the symbol of American militaristic excess of the ’80s in First Blood.
 
 November 19, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Sean Mulvihill
 FanboyNation.com…

 

Plot
John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo’s commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff’s department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny or odd comment about the film First Blood on Fresh Kernels.
 

 
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Season Finale:
10/13/2021
 
Genre(s)
Animation, Comedy, Music, Reboot, Remake, War
 
Keyword(s)
Childrens Animation Digital Animation, Reboot Digital Animation, Remake, Disney Television Animation, Xilam Animation, TV Shows from 2021, Movies from United States, English Language, GLAAD Media Awards Nominees, Emmy Awards Nominees, PGA Awards Nominees, Critics’ Choice Awards Nominees, Critics’ Choice Awards Winners, Golden Globes Nominees, Golden Globes Winners, SAG Awards Nominees, SAG Awards Winners, DGA Awards Nominees, WGA Awards Nominees, WGA Awards Winners, GLAAD Media Awards Winners, NAACP Image Awards Nominees
 

 

Awards & Nominations
NA
 

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