Film Search
- Oct 19, 2010
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Haunted Castle 3D (PG)
I saw several parents drag their children out of the theater during the first few minutes of this large-format 3-D chiller, which only gets more intense as it goes on. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Hunt for Red October (PG)
Like many such efforts, this leaden 1990 cold-war thriller, adapted from Tom Clancy's best-selling novel, tries to make the CIA more competent and sophisticated than it is. Here CIA analyst Alec Baldwin tries to figure out why the Soviet nuclear submarine Red October, commanded by renegade Sean Connery, is approaching North America's eastern seaboard without authorization. more...
- Apr 25, 2019
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Man on a Swing (PG)
Frank Perry directed this 1974 crime film about a police chief investigating a killing in his small town who is offered help by a psychic. more...
- Oct 1, 2013
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Poltergeist (PG)
This Steven Spielberg-produced horror film (1982) neatly inverts the antifamily themes of shockers that were being made during the same period (including those of its nominal director, Tobe Hooper—The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Funhouse), presenting a squad of spooks who help a giggly, dope-smoking young couple mature into the responsible parents they ought to be by kidnapping their daughter. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Poseidon Adventure (PG)
An ocean liner turns over in the Mediterranean, and a lot of Hollywood stars—Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, and Arthur O'Connell—dutifully go through their disaster-movie paces, some more adeptly than others. more...
- Dec 21, 2011
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Rear Window (PG)
The most densely allegorical of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpieces (1954), moving from psychology to morality to formal concerns and finally to the theological. more...
- Apr 5, 1985
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Shadow of a Doubt (PG)
Alfred Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece (1943). more...
- Apr 21, 1998
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The Spanish Prisoner (PG)
As in House of Games, David Mamet tries his hand at a Hitchcockian thriller, this time exploring the chase film rather than obsessive behavior. more...
- Dec 16, 2010
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Tron: Legacy (PG)
The Avatar of its day, Disney's live-action feature Tron (1982) more or less pioneered the use of CGI in movies, though its scarcity on video these days, as Disney ramps up this 3-D sequel, speaks to the theory that its special effects would be laughable now (the story was laughable then). more...
- Dec 16, 2010
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Tron: Legacy 3D (PG)
The Avatar of its day, Disney's live-action feature Tron (1982) more or less pioneered the use of CGI in movies, though its scarcity on video these days, as Disney ramps up this 3-D sequel, speaks to the theory that its special effects would be laughable now (the story was laughable then). more...
- Dec 16, 2010
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Tron: Legacy: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG)
The Avatar of its day, Disney's live-action feature Tron (1982) more or less pioneered the use of CGI in movies, though its scarcity on video these days, as Disney ramps up this 3-D sequel, speaks to the theory that its special effects would be laughable now (the story was laughable then). more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Tron (PG)
Despite its sharp look and quick, elegant animation, this 1982 Walt Disney live-action production proves what should have been the most blatantly obvious rule in 80s Hollywood: the best visual design in the world doesn't mean a thing unless there's someone around with a rudimentary sense of story. more...