8 Movie Collection: Star-Studded Drama

With All the Pretty Horses (2000), director Billy Bob Thornton set out to make a Heaven’s Gate (1980) for the new millennium by adapting Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name. However, movie studio executives took the film away from him and recut... 

Everybody’s Fine

Welcome to the end of Robert De Niro’s career, which just so happens to dovetail rather coincidentally with the demise of Miramax, the little studio that became a major player in the 1990s. However, with the departure of its founders, Harvey and Bob... 

Lucky You

After the surprise critical and semi-commercial hit of L.A. Confidential (1997), director Curtis Hanson followed it up with the equally critically-lauded Wonder Boys (2000) that, despite two separate theatrical releases, failed to connect with a mainstream... 

Adam Sandler Collection

When Adam Sandler started making movies where he was the star they were a mix of childish frat boy humour and romance with more of an emphasis on what Kevin Smith would classify as “dick and fart jokes.” The best example of this early period would... 

Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology 1989-1997

Most people forget that Batman (1989) was the first quality comic book adaptation since Superman (1978) because nobody had taken them seriously or bothered to be faithful to the original source material for quite some time. At first, when fans heard who... 

Fever Pitch: Cursed Reversed Edition

Unlike fellow Saturday Night Live alumni Will Farrell, Jimmy Fallon has yet to make the successful jump from television to movies. He showed promise with his small (and almost unrecognizable) role in Almost Famous (2000) and then completely wasted it... 

Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut

Donnie Darko (2001) had the misfortune of being released right around the time of 9/11. At the time no one was interested in seeing a strange time travel movie involving a teenage boy who talks to a large rabbit and is almost killed by a jet engine fallen... 

50 First Dates

Once again Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are thrown together for a laugh-a-minute romantic comedy, and after the on-screen chemistry of ‘The Wedding Singer’, dollar signs must have been rolling and kerching noises must have been kerching-ing... 

Donnie Darko

A hit at Sundance last year, Donnie Darko arrives here with a highly deserved buzz of anticipation but bafflingly limited cinema release. On paper the setup sounds cheesy – Messed up teen sees giant bunny rabbit who predicts end of the world –... 

Duplex

Along with fellow actor Clint Eastwood, Danny DeVito has had an underrated career as a director. His best known efforts, Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and The War of the Roses (1989) demonstrated not only distinctive stylistic chops but a knack for...