For a movie called When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, this film -- written and directed by Val Guest -- has surprisingly few dinosaurs in it and the few that it does have don't play much of an integral part in the plot. They don't do any ruling, that's for
It's part of Legendary Pictures Monsterverse series, which began in 2014 with an American remake of Godzilla and was followed by 2017's Kong: Skull Island and 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
This film has gotten a lot of attention for understandable reasons -- it's a provocative, highly-stylized fantasia that directly takes on some of the hottest hot buttons of our times -- #Metoo, rape culture…
To write the book, Crowe, then in his twenties, posed as a high school student for the entire school year so that he could get up close and personal with the kids he was writing about.
A remake of the 1946 noir classic (based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway), this hard-boiled production was a made-for-TV movie that was deemed too violent for TV and so was released theatrically.
The film is shot in black and white and looks terrific, although Fincher has chosen to use a very hyper-active visual style that creates a great deal of anxiety in the viewer for no reason I can fathom.
have a pretty high tolerance for most things, but sadism in movies is something I find hard to take, so I avoided seeing this film for many years because it has a reputation for being extremely graphic and cruel.
The boys play themselves in a fictional story (cribbed a bit from THE MOONSTONE) about an evil cult eager to possess a sacred jewel that just happens to be mounted in a ring stuck on Ringo's hand.
The story takes place in a small town in New Mexico (although the movie was shot in Texas and the town never looks like anything but Texas) in the 1950s.