Review Rewind

Happy Halloween! On our last spooky movie adventure, we jump into one of Shane Black's first screen plays, the 1987 horror-comedy, The Monster Squad.

Directed by Fred Dekker

Written by Shane Black, Fred Dekker

Produced by Jonathan A. Zimbert

Starring Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Duncan Regehr, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw, Tom Noonan

Cinematography Bradford May

Edited by James Mitchell

Music by Bruce Broughton

Color process by Metrocolor

Production companies Taft Entertainment Pictures

Keith Barish Productions

Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures

Release date August 14, 1987

Running time 82 minutes

Budget

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Gross US & Canada

$3,769,990

Opening weekend US & Canada

$1,920,678Aug 16, 1987

Gross worldwide

$3,771,779

We FINALLY jump into the world of Hitchcock and we jump into the deep end with his 1960 psychological thriller - Psycho

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay byJoseph Stefano
Based on Psycho 1959 novel by Robert Bloch
Produced by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh
Cinematography John L. Russell
Edited by George Tomasini
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Production company Shamley Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures[a]
Release datesJune 16, 1960 (New York City)[3]
September 8, 1960 (United States)[4]
Running time109 minutes
Budget
$806,947 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$32,181,230
Gross worldwide
$32,332,374

We continue our journey of the spooky with Ripley Scott's 1979 Sci-fi-Horror classic, Alien

Directed by Ridley Scott

Screenplay byDan O'Bannon

Story by Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill

Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

Cinematography Derek Vanlint

Edited by Terry Rawlings

Peter Weatherley

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Production companies 20th Century-Fox

Brandywine Productions[1][2]

Distributed by20th Century-Fox

Release datesMay 25, 1979 (United States)

September 6, 1979 (United Kingdom)

Running time116 minutes

Budget

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Gross US & Canada

$84,206,106

Opening weekend US & Canada

$3,527,881May 28, 1979

Gross worldwide

$109,726,643

Happy spooky season! We start the season off with the breakthrough indie action/horror flick,Underworld

Directed by Len Wiseman
Screenplay byDanny McBride
Story by Kevin Grevioux, Len Wiseman, Danny McBride
Produced byTom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright
Starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Erwin Leder, Bill Nighy
Cinematography Tony Pierce-Roberts
Edited by Martin Hunter
Music by Paul Haslinger
Production companies Screen Gems, Lakeshore Entertainment Subterranean Productions
Underworld Produktions GmbH, Laurinfilm
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing (North America, Australia, New Zealand and Italy)[1]
Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)[2][3][4]
Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)[4]
SPI International (Hungary)[4]
Release dates
September 15, 2003 (Grauman's Chinese Theatre)
September 19, 2003 (United States and United Kingdom)
January 29, 2004 (Germany)
April 22, 2004 (Hungary)
Running time121 minutes
Budget
$22,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$51,970,690
Opening weekend US & Canada
$21,753,759Sep 21, 2003
Gross worldwide
$95,708,457

We go way back - billions of years back - to a story of a stone age family. We watching the 1994, live-action, The Flintstones

Directed by Brian Levant
Written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza
Based on The Flintstones by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Produced by Bruce Cohen
Starring John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Elizabeth Perkins, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by Kent Beyda
Music by David Newman
Production companies Amblin Entertainment
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date May 27, 1994
Running time 91 minutes
Budget
$46,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$130,531,208
Opening weekend US & Canada
$29,688,730May 29, 1994
Gross worldwide
$341,631,208

This week we take on the Oscar winning performance of Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in the 1997 James L. Brooks picture, As Good As It Gets

Directed by James L. Brooks
Screenplay byMark Andrus, James L. Brooks
Story by Mark Andrus
Produced by James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson
Kristi Zea
Starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, Yeardley Smith
Cinematography John Bailey
Edited by Richard Marks
Music by Hans Zimmer
Production companies TriStar Pictures, Gracie Films
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
December 6, 1997 (Regency Village Theatre)
December 25, 1997 (United States)
Running time138 minutes
Budget
$50,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$148,478,011
Opening weekend US & Canada
$12,606,928Dec 28, 1997
Gross worldwide
$314,178,011

We did it. We finally did it. We watched a Wes Anderson movie. Lets see what we thought of his 1998 film, Rushmore

Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Produced by Barry Mendel, Paul Schiff
Starring Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams
Bill Murray, Brian Cox, Seymour Cassel, Mason Gamble
Cinematography Robert Yeoman
Edited by David Moritz
Music by Mark Mothersbaugh
Production companies Touchstone Pictures[1][2]
American Empirical Pictures
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution[1]
Release dates
September 17, 1998 (TIFF)
December 11, 1998 (United States)
Running time93 minutes
Budget
$9,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$17,105,219
Opening weekend US & Canada
$43,666Dec 13, 1998
Gross worldwide
$17,198,495

Romantic Comedy? Assassin story? Both? We watched the very slept on 1997 film  Grosse Pointe Blank!

Directed by George Armitage
Screenplay by Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis
Steve Pink, John Cusack
Story by Tom Jankiewicz
Produced by Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth
Roger Birnbaum
Starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin
Dan Aykroyd
Cinematography Jamie Anderson
Edited by Brian Berdan
Music by Joe Strummer
Production companies Hollywood Pictures
Caravan Pictures, Roger Birnbaum Productions
Roth-Arnold Productions, New Crime Productions
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures
Release date
April 11, 1997
Running time107 minutes
Budget
$15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$28,084,357
Opening weekend US & Canada
$6,870,397Apr 13, 1997
Gross worldwide
$28,084,357

This week we watch James Cameron's blockbuster, award winning hit, Titanic

Directed by James Cameron

Written by James Cameron

Produced by James Cameron, Jon Landau

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill

Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner, Bill Paxton

Cinematography Russell Carpenter

Edited by Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris

Music by James Horner

Production companies Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment

Distributed by Paramount Pictures (United States and Canada) 20th Century Fox (International)

Release datesNovember 1, 1997 (Tokyo)

December 19, 1997 (United States)

Running time195 minutes

Budget

$200,000,000 (estimated)

Gross US & Canada

$674,354,882

Opening weekend US & Canada

$28,638,131Dec 21, 1997

Gross worldwide

$2,264,812,968

Going from the last hand animated film - we jump to the first time live action and animation were so throughly integrated. Join us as we talk about the one of a kind 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay byJeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman
Based on Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf
Produced by Frank Marshall, Robert Watts
Starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, Joanna Cassidy
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by Arthur Schmidt
Music by Alan Silvestri
Production companies Touchstone Pictures[1][2]
Amblin Entertainment, Silver Screen Partners III
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release datesJune 21, 1988 (New York City)
June 22, 1988 (United States)
Running time104 minutes
Budget
$70,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$156,452,370
Opening weekend US & Canada
$11,226,239Jun 26, 1988
Gross worldwide
$329,803,958