In 1973, a little film directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection) was released that caused mass hysteria, fainting, and undying controversy. The film launched newcomer Linda Blair into the spotlight and set a benchmark for psychological horror films to come.
Susan (Blanchard Ryan) and Daniel (Daniel Travis) are a normal couple. Both overworked to the point of near exhaustion, they cherish the time they get to spend together when they can both come together in the same room.
Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) is not your run-of-the-mill husband and college professor. Married to his wife Terry (Laura Dern), he is the father of one little girl and one little boy, but it's been a long time since he's truly been happy.
Just five short years ago, Amelia (Mia) Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) was your regular run-of-the-mill teenager. Gawky and awkward with nerdy glasses and hideous braces, she was hardly the most popular girl at her San Francisco high school.
Sometimes as a film critic you have to see movies you don't know anything about or particularly care to know anything about. It's pretty much par for the course in this line of work. Most days I don't mind it and I tend to only really see what I want to see and let the other ones pass me by without a second thought.
Returning to the silver screen for the first time in 3 years, Michael Mann returns to what made him famous: the gritty crime drama.
Mann's best films were always housed in gritty underground themes that produced some of the most unique scenes and memories of dialogue.
"You can never go home again."
Firstâ€"time filmmaker and screenwriter Zach Braff (TV's Scrubs) zeroes in on what it takes to feel again and what it takes to come home once more in Garden State.
Braff stars as Andrew Largeman, a struggling L.A. actor who returns home to New Jersey after the sudden passing of his mother.
John Frankenheimer's legendary 1962 political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate, is probably considered one of the greatest political thrillers ever made.
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense is still revered as one of the greatest thriller classics of the modern era. It changed the way we view thriller films today.
In his follow-ups to his other-worldly The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan proposed a new way of looking at superheroes in Unbreakable and deduced alien invasions to paranoia in Signs.
M. Night Shyamalan, not unlike his films, is a bit of a Hollywood wonder. Breaking onto the scene with The Sixth Sense, he's quickly risen to the top of the list of directors whose films are highly anticipated by the North American and international movie-going public.
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