Focus Features is a relatively young distributor and is the art-house division of Universal Pictures. In their short existence, they have distributed an amazingly high number of excellent motion pictures. In the last year alone they were the studio behind multiple Oscar nominee Lost in Translation and the film that ended up as my favorite of 2003, 21 Grams.
It's been almost 2 years since we have had a glimpse at the upside-down world of script-crafter Charlie Kaufman. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter has delivered such head scratching films as Human Nature, Being John Malkovich, and Adaptation.
Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is not your ordinary teenager. In fact he's a secret agent for the CIA recruited after requesting a spy kit by mail. Now a couple of years older, Cody and the rest of the junior agents are spending the summer at Camp Woody, a super secret training facility masquerading to their parents as a summer camp.
For 38 weeks of the year, fans of stock-car racing tune into NASCAR races. The speed, the pressure, the teamwork, and the danger are just a few of many reasons why this has become one of the biggest money making efforts in sports entertainment.
As IMAX moves further into the 3D universe, you continue to be dumbfounded to what can be accomplished with that old 1950s gimmickry.
Charles Martin Smith loves our frozen tundra and Farley Mowat. In 1983, he starred in Never Cry Wolf, adapted from Mowat's book. Now, he directs The Snow Walker, another movie based on works by Farley Mowat. Like Never Cry Wolf, this movie is just as entertaining.
Barry Pepper and Annabella Piugattuk star in this lost-in-the-north story.
The year was 2001 and it was the first time that the Soothsayer threw his hat into the Oscar ring.
That year in my Oscar article, I complained about Oscar neglecting the idea of having an award for animated feature films.
There have been great boxing movies like Rocky, The Champ, and of course the historic Raging Bull. There were even some more average but enjoyable boxing films like Goldie and the Boxer, Gladiator, and Streets of Gold.
Ever since she was a young girl, Jackie Kallen (Meg Ryan) has been interested in boxing. In her early years she was hanging around the ring as her uncle Ray-Ray trained for a number of highly-regarded matches. Now in her mid-thirties, Jackie works as a personal assistant to the a promoter who arranges fights at the Cleveland Coliseum.
Imagine you find the girl of your dreams but each morning you have to remind her who you are and that you love her. How would you do it? Well poor bachelor Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) has found that very problem in the girl of his dreams, Lucy (Drew Barrymore).
You see, Lucy has a mental disorder due to a severe car accident. Lucy's short term memory expires each night she goes to sleep.
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