2024-06-29
Shoot-'em-up action and a flashy visual style drive this entertaining Old West tale. Director-star Mario Van Peebles saddles up as the laconic leader of a posse that comes to the aid of black townspeople who are besieged by a tyrannical sheriff (Richard Jordan). The fine cast includes Billy Zane, Blair Underwood, Pam Grier and Melvin Van Peebles (Mario's father).
In this gutbuster, a self-deluded tae kwon do instructor attempts to drum up business for his strip-mall studio while managing his misfit students.
George Clooney wears two hats, or in the case of this winning gridiron romp, one hat and one helmet, as both director and star. He plays Dodge Connolly, a 1920s pro-footballer who tries to save his floundering squad by signing a college star (John Krasinski) to help get the team on track and, more important, turn a profit. Renee Zellweger costars as a reporter who becomes the object of affection f
A twentysomething female comic attempts to embrace adulthood after getting dumped, fired and pregnant. In time, her newfound vulnerability helps her to nurture a renewed sense of self-confidence.
This bittersweet saga dramatizes the rise and fall of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, one of the key pop groups of the early '60s, responsible for such iconic hits as "Sherry," "Walk Like a Man" and "Big Girls Don't Cry.".
Slick comedy-drama about a day in the life of the cutups who work and hang out at a barbershop on Chicago's South Side. Ice Cube plays Calvin Palmer, an entrepreneurial soul who inherits his father's struggling hair business. Unfortunately, Calvin doesn't want to be the head honcho, so he sells the shop to a local loan shark---a move that greatly upsets his regulars.
Nia Vardalos wrote the script and stars as Toula, a thirtysomething woman whose Greek-immigrant parents want her to get married and make babies. But when Toula finally finds that special someone, he's not Greek---and that's a shock for the entire clan. John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine.
Mourning the loss of three of his family members, a detective receives a haunting phone call from his deceased niece, who is existing on an alternate timeline two weeks prior. It is now up to Jack to talk her through the coming days to save her and her family's lives in this mystery thriller.
A bouncer is hired in a rowdy honky-tonk where brawling is a nightly event, but his efforts to clean it up are stifled by a local crime boss.
In this wickedly funny satire, a high-school teacher tries to thwart a ruthless overachiever who's running for class president by encouraging a dimwitted jock to enter the race. In time, the election also attracts the jock's sister, who pledges to dismantle the student government.
In this swooning sci-fi romance, set in a future dystopia where emotions are suppressed with drugs and coupling is strictly prohibited, two coworkers begin a secret love affair in defiance of society's laws. When a "cure" for all human emotion is invented, the pair realize that they must escape from their totalitarian state in order to preserve their relationship.
An American woman living in London leaves her live-in boyfriend for a fling with a British mountaineer, whom she marries in a whirlwind.
A young woman named Ruth abandons her daughter and goes on the run to hide her seismic superhuman abilities. After eight years, she returns home to her judgmental mother and a daughter who doesn't know her but who has inherited similar powers. The two work together to form a bond, harness their abilities and evade capture by Ruth's pursuers.
A drifter and a wounded man pursue a band of thieves through postapocalyptic Australia in this intense hybrid Western.