MPAA Rating: NR/ Genre: Biblical Drama/ Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, Martha Scott, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, John Carradine, Olive Deering, Douglass Dumbrille, Frank de Kova, Henry Wilcoxon, Eduard Franz, Donald Curtis, Lawrence…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Wicker Man “73”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Folk Horror/ Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunter, Jennifer Martin, Donald Eccles, Walter Carr, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Geraldine Cowper, John Young, Myra Forsyth, Alison Hughes, Barbara Rafferty/ Runtime: 87 minutes (theatrical cut),…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Day the Earth Stood Still “51”
MPAA Rating: NR/ Genre: Sci-Fi/ Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin/ Runtime: 92 minutes I think it is safe to say that if you were to ask a group of film reviewers what, in their mind, was the best known and…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Misery “90”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Psychological Thriller/ Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis, J. T. Walsh/ Runtime: 107 minutes I feel it is safe to start this review off by admitting something to you dear reader: when it comes to authors whose works I…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Super 8 “2011”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Sci-Fi/ Stars: Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, AJ Michalka, Joel McKinnon Miller, Jessica Tuck, Brett Rice, Michael Giacchino, Michael Hitchcock, Jay Scully, Noah Emmerich, Richard T. Jones, Bruce Greenwood, David Gallagher, Glynn Turman, Beau Knapp,…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Imitation Game “2014”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Historical Drama/ Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, James Northcote, Tom Goodman-Hill, Steven Waddington, Ilan Goodman, Jack Tarlton/ Runtime: 114 minutes I think it is safe to say that when a person starts mentally conjuring…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: A Clockwork Orange “71”
MPAA Rating: R/Genre: Dystopian Crime/ Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Sheila Raynor, Madge Ryan, Anthony Sharp, Philip Stone, Michael Tarn, David Prowse, Carol Drinkwater, Steven Berkoff,…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: 42 “2013”
MPAA Rating: PG-13/ Genre: Sports Docudrama/ Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, André Holland, Christopher Meloni, John C. McGinley, Toby Huss, Lucas Black, Alan Tudyk, Nicole Beharie, C. J. Nitkowski, Brett Cullen, Ryan Merriman, T. R. Knight, Hamish Linklater, Brad Beyer, Jesse Luken, Max Gail, Peter MacKenzie, James Pickens Jr./ Runtime:…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: Invasion of the Body Snatchers “78”
MPAA Rating: PG/ Genre: Sci-Fi Horror/ Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Art Hindle, Lelia Goldoni, Kevin McCarthy, Don Siegel, Tom Luddy, Jerry Walter, Philip Kaufman, Rose Kaufman, Robert Duvall/ Runtime: 115 minutes For a long time I think it is safe to say that…
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At the Movies with Alan Gekko: The Trial of the Chicago 7 “2020”
MPAA Rating: R/ Genre: Drama/ Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, John Carroll Lynch, Noah Robbins, Alex Sharp, Kelvin Harrison Jr., J. C. MacKenzie, Ben Shenkman, Max Adler, John Doman/ Runtime: 129 minutes Ok so…