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Let’s be honest, when someone mentions Michael J. Fox, your brain probably jumps straight to Back to the Future. The red vest, the DeLorean, that wild “Great Scott!” energy… it’s iconic, and so is he. Marty McFly basically defined a generation. But here’s the thing: Michael J. Fox didn’t stop being awesome after time travel.

He’s been out here delivering underrated bangers, low-key gems, and performances that hit way harder than you’d expect. Comedy? Drama? Even animated voice work? He’s done it all, and chances are, you’ve missed a few of his best roles just because they didn’t involve a flux capacitor.

So if you’ve only seen him skateboarding through Hill Valley, buckle up, we’re about to dive into some seriously good Michael J. Fox movies that deserve their own moment in the spotlight. Trust us, there’s way...

Few stories in literature glorify sisterhood as well as “Little Women.” Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel is more than just about romance, ambition, and societal expectations; it is also a love letter to the unshakable tie between sisters. The March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—all have different personalities, desires, and challenges, but their love for one another is the story’s beating heart. Throughout the years, several “Little Women” movie adaptations have brought this relationship to life in unique ways, portraying the warmth, rivalry, and profound emotional connection that constitute sisterhood.

Some emphasize the nostalgic comfort of family, while others focus on the intricacies and conflicts that come with growing up together. These films remind us that sisterhood is never perfect, but it is always powerful. One of the reasons “Little Women” remains popular is that it depicts sisterhood in all of its messy, incredible complexities. The March...

Winona Ryder rose to prominence immediately after making her film debut in 1986.Stranger Things/YouTube; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/YouTubeAbigail Williams in 'The Crucible'mega

Winona Ryder plays the role of Abigail Williams in the 1996 film The Crucible. Directed by Nicholas Hytner and written by Arthur Miller, the film explores the Salem Witch Trials involving girls in a small community. Ryder's character, who had an affair with Daniel Day-Lewis' John Proctor, tries to get revenge on his wife by framing her.

The Crucible also stars Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison, Rob Campbell and Jeffrey Jones, to name a few.

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Starring as Beth Macintyre, also known as The Dying Swan, Ryder takes on the role and paves the way for Natalie Portman's Nina, a talented ballet dancer, in the film Black Swan. The 2010 flick also sees the rivalry between Nina and newcomer Lilly (Mila Kunis).

Following filming,...

Because Kirsten Dunst has been acting since she was a child, she has a much longer acting resume than other actors her age. Even as a child in the business, Dunst had a variety of projects she appeared in. In addition to family-friendly adventure tales, she also appeared in historical dramas and sci-fi/fantasy films - all before she even turned 18.

Dunst is one of the seemingly rare actors to make a successful transition from roles as a child to roles as an adult. She spent a few years in the early 2000s playing high school roles in teen rom-coms, like cult classic Get Over It, before making the jump to more adult roles. As a result, her best movies include some from her childhood, her teen roles, and her more recent adult roles. Shes had one of the more consistent careers in Hollywood.

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Quick Links The Story of The Frighteners The Frighteners Features One of Michael J. Fox's Funniest & Most Underrated Roles The Frighteners Gave an Early Display of Peter Jackson's Talents to a Wider Audience

From 2001 to 2003, director Peter Jackson forever changed the face of cinema when he pulled off what was thought to be the impossible task of bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy to life on the big screen. Many people may not be aware of the humble beginnings of Jackson's career, having started by making independent films in New Zealand, but it was The Frighteners that marked one of his first experiences of making a major studio film, one that unfortunately didn't reach the same level of admiration as his later works. The truth is, however, had it not been for the making that he achieved in making that one specific film,...

Chicago – The 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival is off and running, and the third day – Sunday, May 5th – screens and the 30th Anniversary of a modern classic and a highly anticipated upcoming release. “I Saw the TV Glow” by Jane Schoenbrun and “Little Women” (the 1994 version) anchor a full day of cinema heroics. For the full schedule, info and tickets, click Ccff May 5th. For individual films, click titles below.

30th Anniversary, Little Women

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Based on the classic 1868 novel about love, family and the female spirit, Louisa May Alcott tells the domestic saga of the March family in post-Civil War America with a cast that includes Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Clare Danes, Christian Bale, Kirsten Dunst, Gabriel Byrne, Samantha Mathis, Eric Stoltz and Trini Alvarado.

Capsule Review: Greta Gerwig’s 2019 re-imagining aside, the 1994 version – directed by Gillian Armstrong – of the oft-filmed classic combines the elements...

Possibly the greatest collection of films for a modern classic showcase is about to take place at the TCM Classic Film Festival. The Wrap has revealed that the channel Turner Classic Movies, which is dedicated to unaltered, unedited film broadcasts of renowned movies in the history of cinema, has revealed the list of titles and guest appearances that will be featured at this year’s festival. The festival this year will be commemorating the 30th anniversary of the network. The TCM Classic Festival will be taking place in Los Angeles on April 18-21.

The event will screen the world premiere of a brand-new restoration of the 1995 film Se7en, the dark crime thriller starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Director David Fincher will be there personally to unveil the film in IMAX. Another big screening will be the director’s cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which will play...

For those of us who remember going to the movies in 1977, we were treated to Star Wars, Smokey And The Bandit, The Spy Who Loved Me, Airport 77, The Car, Orca and Capricorn One. There was a rich wealth of movies to choose from and a time when audiences in their local cinemas would cheer and clap for the heroes. Then on December 14, 1977, coming off the success of Jaws, that director Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece graced the screens. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind was the filmmaker’s next movie and, along with star Richard Dreyfuss and the magnificent score from composer John Williams, took audiences on a journey of mankind’s first meeting with aliens and let us know we are not alone in the universe.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning for Best Cinematography by Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond (The Sugarland Express...

The 2024 TCM Film Festival is ringing in its 15th anniversary with a slew of star-studded panels and premieres.

The festival, which takes place in Los Angeles from April 18 to 21, will kick off with a special 35mm screening of “Pulp Fiction” with actor John Travolta in attendance. This year’s festival theme is “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film,” and fittingly, the festival boasts a cast reunion of prison escape drama “The Shawshank Redemption” with stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

Both “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Pulp Fiction” are celebrating 30 years since their respective 1994 releases.

The festival will close with Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs,” with Brooks presenting the feature.

Additional programming includes the world premiere of the IMAX restoration of David Fincher’s “Se7en,” a restoration of “The Searchers” courtesy of Warner Bros. and The Film Foundation with Oscar-nominated writer/director Alexander Payne introducing the film, and “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings presenting the U.

Those attending the 15th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood next month will have an opportunity to engage with Mel Brooks and Vitaphone, both born in 1926. One’s extinct, the other’s still going strong.

While Brooks, 97, will be on hand for a closing-night screening of his 1987 comedy Spaceballs, six Vitaphone vaudeville shorts from the 1920s will be projected in 35mm, with sound played back from their original 16-inch discs on a turntable designed and engineered by Warner Bros.’ postproduction engineering department.

Also announced Thursday:

• Steven Spielberg will participate in a Q&a with Howard Suber — the UCLA faculty member at the center of the recent six-part TCM documentary The Power of Film — ahead of a director’s cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977);

• Nancy Meyers and Alexander Payne, respectively, will introduce world premiere restorations of Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959) and John Ford’s The Searchers...

Haunted Mansion is a fantasy horror film directed by Justin Simien, from a screenplay by Katie Dippold. Based on Disney’s theme park of the same name, the film revolves around a mother and a son who hire a motley crew to get rid of the supernatural entities living in their house. Haunted Mansion stars Lakeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Chase Dillon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, and Jared Leto. So, if you loved the Disney film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Ghostbusters (Peacock & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Sony Pictures

Synopsis: Suit up for classic comedy! Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) take a chance on going freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service. As soon as they open their doors, their first order of business becomes...

Chances are if you rushed out to see “M3GAN” you were intoxicated by its mixture of horror and comedy and probably want more like it.

“M3GAN” is the story of a disaffected roboticist (played by Allison Williams) who supplies her recently orphaned niece (Violet McGraw) with a robotic companion instead of actually, you know, putting in the work to make sure the grieving process isn’t so chaotic. The results are a killer robot/killer doll movie that puts as much emphasis on laughs as it does on thrills.

And if “M3GAN” really revved your motor and you want more from this particular sub-genre, well, we’ve got you covered. Here are 15 other great horror comedy movies to watch after you’ve unplugged from “M3GAN:”

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“Evil Dead II” is arguably the “Citizen Kane” of horror comedies. Half sequel, half remake, “Evil Dead II” took...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women is a classic of American literature. Following the lives of four sisters growing up in Civil War Massachusetts, it has been adapted for television and film at least seven times, the most famous of which is a classic in its own right. The 1994 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong starred Winona Ryder as Jo, Christian Bale as Laurie, Trini Alvarado as Meg, Clare Danes as Beth, and Kristen Dunst and Samantha Mathis as Amy. For a long time, this was the seminal Little Women adaptation, but the 2019 version directed by Greta Gerwig might very well take its place.

Related: Little Women: 10 Things We Need To See In Greta Gerwig's New Adaptation

Gerwig's film tells a story about childhood and memory, and it stars Saoirse Ronan as Jo, Timothee Chalamet as Laurie, Emma Watson as Meg, Eliza Scanlen as Beth, and Florence Pugh as Amy.

Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms — is both timeless and timely.

Portraying Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth March, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, with Timothée Chalamet as their neighbor Laurie, Laura Dern as Marmee, and Meryl Streep as Aunt March.

There have been other adaptations of the book. Most famously Little Women (1933) – Directed by George Cukor, stars Katharine Hepburn (Jo), Joan Bennett (Amy), Jean Parker (Beth), and Frances Dee (Meg). Little Women (1949) – Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, stars June Allyson (Jo), Elizabeth Taylor (Amy), Margaret O...

Emma Watson is taking a step back in time for her upcoming film Little Women.

The 28-year-old actress was photographed on the set of her latest film, an adaptation of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel of the same name.

Watson wore a long blue gown with a light pink cape and her hair in a low bun.

The film centers around the four March sisters who confront growing pains, financial woes, tragedies and romantic rivalries.

Here’s everything we know about the latest adaptation of the film.

It Has an A-List Cast

Watson isn’t the only big name...

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is set to join Meryl Streep in Greta Gerwig's Little Women remake. Emma Watson is currently in negotiations to take on the role that Emma Stone had to back out of. Emma Stone exited because of the promotional campaign for The Favourite. Production is set to start for the Little Women remake next month, so the studio needed to move fast in finding a replacement. As for which role Watson will be playing, that is unknown at this time.

Greta Gerwig is directing the new big screen adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic novel. The story follows four sisters Amy, Beth, Meg, and Jo along with their mother during the Civil War in Massachusetts. Emma Watson will be playing one of the sisters, but it is unclear which one. The story chronicles the young women as they navigate growing older while experiencing Christmas without their father.

Peter Jackson is known for making long movies. It's just a thing he does. As it turns out, one of his early movies, The Frighteners, which originally clocked in at a very reasonable 110 minutes, actually has a five-hour cut, according to star Jake Busey. Mind you, this isn't some rough assembly cut, this is actually a cut Jackson was happy with. Here's what Busey had to say about it.

"Yeah, there's a s*** load of material you haven't seen. I think you need to petition and lobby Peter Jackson for an original director's cut. You want to ask him to release the five-hour director's cut. It should be a miniseries broken up into three films."

It's not uncommon for rough assembly cuts of movies to run four or five hours in length. However, Jake Busey assures that this was an actual cut. "I think his first on it was seven or eight hours,...

Get ready for a new generation of March sisters! There's a Little Women remake happening, sources confirm to E! News. Former Sony executive Amy Pascal will reportedly produce this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's book, and she won't be the first one to do so. There have been many Little Women remakes before—including a 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn and a 1949 film starring Elizabeth Taylor—but the most recent 1994 adaptation is the one with which you're probably the most familiar... Yes, that Little Women remake, starring Winona Ryder (as Jo), Kirsten Dunst (Amy), Trini Alvarado (Meg) and Claire Danes (Beth) is a classic in its own right! Admittedly, it's going to be tough...

Maureen O'Hara movies: 2014 Honorary Oscar for Hollywood legend (photo: Maureen O'Hara at the 2014 Governors Awards) In the photo above, the movies' Maureen O'Hara, 2014 Honorary Oscar recipient for her body of work, arrives with a couple of guests at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2014 Governors Awards. This year's ceremony is being held this Saturday evening, November 8, in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood. For the last couple of years, Maureen O'Hara has been a Boise, Idaho, resident. Before that, the 94-year-old movie veteran -- born Maureen FitzSimons, on August, 17, 1920, in Dublin -- had been living in Ireland. Below is a brief recap of her movies. Maureen O'Hara movies: From Charles Laughton to John Wayne Following her leading-lady role in Alfred Hitchcock's British-made Jamaica Inn, starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara arrived in Hollywood in 1939 to play the gypsy Esmeralda opposite Laughton in William Dieterle...

 

If you missed the critically acclaimed drama Museum Hours last week, the Austin Film Society is bringing you one more chance to catch it on the big screen. You can check it out on Sunday afternoon at the Marchesa. That's also where you'll find a brand-new digital restoration of Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's 1963 documentary Le Joli Mai on Tuesday evening and the Essential Cinema screening of Ozu's Floating Weeds in 35mm on Thursday night.

The Drafthouse's new "Tough Ladies In Cinema" series delivers To Kill A Mockingbird this weekend. You can spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons with Scout and Atticus Finch at the Alamo Lakeline and Slaughter Lane locations. Slaugher also has an "Afternoon Tea" screening of Elizabeth on Saturday and a Bonnie and Clyde beer dinner on Sunday (also part of the Tough Ladies lineup).

The Alamo Ritz has a special Mondo Veterans Day presentation of Oliver Stone...

Sony is set to remake the Little Women classic and set Olivia Milch to pen the adaptation of the classic novel written by Louisa May Alcott, reports Variety. The most recent adaptation of the story following four sisters growing up post-Civil War, was 1994's film which Gillian Armstrong directed. That film was nominated for three Academy Awards and starred Kirsten Dunst, Samantha Mathis, Claire Danes, Trini Alvarado and a Christian Bale, grossing over $95 million at the worldwide box office.

From the early days of Hollywood, film studios have believed that if one is good, five or six are better. That seems even truer today, when deals are inked for sequels before the first film even gets released. Even worse, it seems that over the years we’ve been bombarded by terrible sequels or worse, sequels to movies that weren’t all that great to begin with. And yet, there are those movies that are so good, they need – nay, deserve – to have their stories continued on the big screen...

10. Crossroads (1986)

Ralph Macchio plays Eugene Martone, a young guitar prodigy at Julliard who becomes enamored with Robert Johnson, and finds his friend Willie Brown (Joe Seneca) in a minimum security hospital. Eugene believes there is a lost song of Johnson’s, and Willie tricks him into breaking him out in exchange for the song. But in all honesty, Willie wants...

It should always be counted a massive tragedy that Michael J Fox was robbed of the opportunity to make more films by his health, because he made some of the best family films of his generation, in the Back to the Future Trilogy, as well as other classics like Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Suce$s and Doc Hollywood. Okay, so not everything he touched was gold, but the actor who rescued Marty McFly from the evils of being ginger and unfunny (from Eric Stoltz of course) has such an easy charisma that even now when he appears in cameos and brief guest runs on TV (where his career trajectory has found comfort since 1996 and Spin City) it’s hard not to love him.

And just before he stopped making movies (aside from voice work for Stuart Little and Atlantis) the same year that Spin City arrived on the small screen,...

Rank the week of September 13th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Thor

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #227

Win Percentage: 58%

Times Ranked: 18033

Top-20 Rankings: 90

Directed By: Kenneth Branagh

Starring: Chris Hemsworth • Natalie Portman • Anthony Hopkins • Jeremy Renner • Kat Dennings

Genres: Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure

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Conan O’Brien Can’T Stop

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #5260

Win Percentage: 54%

Times Ranked: 719

Top-20 Rankings: 5

Directed By: Rodman Flender

Starring: Conan O’Brien

Genres: Comedy • Documentary

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Incendies

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2010)

Flickchart Ranking: #4296

Win Percentage: 51%

Times Ranked: 947

Top-20 Rankings: 8

Directed By: Denis Villeneuve

Starring: Lubna Azabal • Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin • Maxim Gaudette • Rémy Girard • Abdelghafour Elaaziz

Genres: Drama • Foreign Language Film

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The Tempest

(Blu-ray & DVD | PG13 | 2010)

Flickchart Ranking: #7784

Win Percentage: 37%

Times Ranked: 385

Top-20 Rankings: 2

Directed By: Julie Taymor

Starring: Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina...

Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

The 10th Victim (1965)

Synopsis: It is the 21st Century, and society’s lust for violence is satisfied by “The Big Hunt,” an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport’s two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become The 10th Victim? The 10th Victim is the international cult classic whose wild action and sexy style has influenced a generation of movies, from The Running Man to the Austin Powers series. Remastered from original archival negative materials, this outrageous satire is presented here in its original Italian language with optional English subtitles. — highdefdigest.com

Special Features:

Marcello: A Sweet Life (2006) (102 Mins.) Theatrical Trailer

3 Women: The Criterion Collection (1977)

Synopsis: In a dusty,...

Universal Studios Home Video will release the Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) comedy-horror-thriller movie The Frighteners on Blu-ray on Sept. 13, marking the 1996’s film’s Blu-ray debut.

Michael J. Fox gets his ghost in The Frighteners.

Both the original theatrical film and Peter Jackson’s director’s cut of the movie will be included in the Blu-ray edition, which will be priced at $26.98.

In the movie, Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future) stars as small-town ghostbuster Frank Bannister, who’s actually more of a con artist then a paranormal medium because he’s in cahoots with the very spirits he’s supposed to be exorcising. It’s a pleasant-enough life until a powerful, otherworldly force goes on a murderous rampage, forcing Frank to find put aside the usual cons and find a way to stop the evil ghoul before it’s too late.

Co-written by Jackson and Fran Walsh,...

Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst star in Andrew Jarecki latest drama All Good Things, which arrives in theaters on December 17th. Inspired by the most notorious missing person's case in New York history, this love story and murder mystery is set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. To get your first look at this compelling romance wrapped in dangerous intrigue, check out the trailer below:

All Good Things Trailer

All Good Things comes to theaters December 3rd, 2010 and stars Ryan Gosling, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig, Frank Langella, Nick Offerman, Diane Venora, Trini Alvarado. The film is directed by Andrew Jarecki.

After a car accident in which his wife Debra is killed, Frank develops psychic abilities that allow him to see, interact, and converse with ghosts. Using his new skills, Frank works exercising spirits from houses and such for people. He even makes friends with some ghosts and lets them haunt houses to drum up business. But when a figure resembling the Grim Reaper begins killing an unusually large number of people it is up to Frank to try and stop him. Michael J. Fox (Frank), Trini Alvarado (Lucy), Peter Dobson (Ray), John Astin (The Judge), Jake Busey (Johnny), Troy Evans (Sheriff Walt), R....

Magnolia Pictures picks up All Good Things According to Variety, Magnolia Pictures has picked up the U.S. rights to Andrew Jarecki's All Good Things.

The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella. It will be released theatrically in December.

All Good Things is inspired by the story of Robert Durst. He was the "scion of the Durst family and a suspect who was never tried for killing his wife Kathie after she disappeared in 1982 and was never found." Jarecki developed the script with Marc Smerling and Marcus Hinchey. Smerling and Hinchey wrote the screenplay.

"Because it is impossible to know exactly what happened, we have not tried to replicate the history of the case, but to capture the emotion and complexity of this unsolved mystery that has for years been kept hidden from public view," Jarecki stated.

The Weinstein Co., was originally set to distribute this film.