2024-09-29
Best Picture winner about an FBI trainee (Best Actress Jodie Foster), who has a knack for analyzing serial killers, and enlists the aid of an imprisoned, cannibalistic sociopath (Best Actor Anthony Hopkins) in tracking a sadistic murderer. An Oscar went to director Jonathan Demme and also Ted Tally won for Best Adapted Screenplay for his script based on the Thomas Harris novel.
Best Actor Oscar nominee Johnny Depp perfectly embodies the title role in Tim Burton's bloody well-done adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical about the vengeful owner of a tonsorial parlor that offers customers more than just a shave and a haircut. Helena Bonham Carter costars as Mrs. Lovett, who makes a killing with her new pie recipe containing a special meaty ingredient.
Washington Irving's enduring legend gets a decidedly Gothic makeover in Tim Burton's hauntingly imaginative adaptation. Johnny Depp plays 1799 NYC policeman Ichabod Crane, who's "banished" to upstate Sleepy Hollow to investigate gruesome decapitations. And the locals are convinced that a tortured soul called the Headless Horseman is the culprit. Christina Ricci, Casper Van Dien.
A writer (John Cusack) who debunks paranormal occurrences finds terrifying evidence to the contrary when he checks into a reputedly haunted hotel room in this spooky adaptation of a story by Stephen King. Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub, Jasmine Jessica Anthony. Mikael Hafstrom directed.
Boyd feels he has finally run out of answers as the village prepares for the end, while Tabitha remains hopeful that the children will be the key to their redemption. (Repeat).
Francis Ford Coppola directed this erotic and visually stunning adaptation of the vampire classic, featuring superbly stylized cinematography. Gary Oldman is deliciously evil as the bloodsucking count; Winona Ryder plays the object of his obsession; and Anthony Hopkins is the intrepid vampire hunter, Van Helsing. Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost, Tom Waits.
A shy teenager, dominated by a religiously fanatic mother, suffers at the hands of high-school bullies, whose mean pranks rile the teen into discovering she has telekinetic powers, which she uses to take ultimate revenge at the prom.
A teenager discovers she has the extraordinary ability to move objects by the power of her thoughts alone, which eventually leads to mayhem and horror at her high-school prom.
In this clever sequel to the 1976 horror classic, a tormented student at the rebuilt Bates High School seeks revenge against the jocks who drove her friend to suicide. Along the way, she learns that she has the same telekinetic powers as Carrie.
Boyd feels he has finally run out of answers as the village prepares for the end, while Tabitha remains hopeful that the children will be the key to their redemption. (Repeat).
Jessa spins her trauma into comedy. (Repeat).
Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman play opposites who become friends in this genial comedy. De Niro plays a homophobic cop who is felled by a stroke and needs vocal rehabilitation. He reluctantly asks his drag-queen neighbor (Hoffman) for help. Barry Miller, Christopher Bauer, Skipp Sudduth.
A group of struggling actors and showbiz player-wannabes search for love among Hollywood's hippest coffee-houses, parties and back-alley nightspots in this outrageous comedy, which introduces the world to a new kind of 'lounge-speak'. Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Ron Livingston, Alex Desert, Patrick Van Horn, Deena Martin, Katherine Kendall, Brooke Langton, Blake Lindsley, Heather Graham.
Woody Allen cowrote and directed this Best Picture, and stars as a neurotic Jewish comedian and writer recounting the roller-coaster relationship he had with a kooky, WASPish aspiring singer. The film employs fantasy flashbacks, direct-to-camera monologues, subtitles and even a cartoon sequence to tell its tale.
Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro head an all-star cast in this stylish and whimsical fantasy about a Victorian lad (Charlie Cox) who retrieves a fallen star that transforms into a beautiful woman (Claire Danes) whose magic is coveted by a witch. Directed by Matthew Vaughn.