Starring: Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain
Filmmaker Albert Brooks wants to create a documentary that will get to the very heart of what it means to be an American family. To that end, he persuades the Yeagers of Phoenix, Ariz., to let him and his camera crew document virtually every moment of their waking lives. What’s supposed to be a cinematic presentation of reality, however, soon becomes something quite different, as Brooks can’t stop himself from comically interfering in their lives.
Childhood friends and future filmmakers Darren Stein and Adam Shell revisit camcorder movies they made as kids, unpacking the heavy topics they once giggled their way through. Interviewing friends and family members, all reminisce about the time in their lives when glimpses of the people they would become were shining through.
Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Burt Reynolds, Jane Hitchcock, Tatum O’Neal, Brian Keith, Stella Stevens, John Ritter
In the silent-film era, attorney Leo Harrigan (Ryan O’Neal) and gunslinger Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds) are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, Leo and Buck soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck’s cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock), leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jack Noseworthy, Mink Stole, Ricki Lake, Patricia Hearst, Michael Shannon, Kevin Nealon
An insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force her to star in their underground movie. Vowing to punish the crass sins of commercial cinema, fueled by revolutionary zeal and their self-imposed sexual frustration, Cecil B. DeMented and his guerrilla production crew invade the streets of Baltimore to shoot their no-budget epic. When Cecil says Action, he means action! Nothing is going to stand in his way.
Starring: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore
A science-fiction film that combines traditional animation with computer-generated images, Titan A.E. takes place in the distant future, after Earth has been obliterated by a mysterious alien race known as the Drej. Cale is a human teenager who has been given a mysterious map by his father, leading him on an unforgettable journey.
Starring: Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa, David Krumholtz, David Corenswet
When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Annie Potts, Greta Lee, Bonnie Hunt, Wallace Shawn, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, John Ratzenberger, Kristen Schaal, Ernie Hudson
The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with this all-new threat to playtime.
Starring: Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans, Chris Elliott, Damon Wayans Jr.
Two friends find themselves caught up in mayhem involving killers, monsters and supernatural creatures once again.
Starring: Emilio Iannucci, Kexin Wang, Jason Momoa, Ryan Reynolds, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Ellie Bamber, Lil Rel Howery, Eric André, Addison Rae
Two fugitive animals embark on an adventure across America to find the ranch that was once their home, healing their friendship while pursued by an equally “odd-couple” DEA agent and Fish and Wildlife ranger with something to prove.
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Maria Smith, John Glover
Those who know The Deuce know The Deuce loves Moms and, if you know The Deuce, you know The Deuce loves celebrating Moms in an incredible and big way! Even if the Mom in question The Deuce is celebrating is THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN! She’s still a Mom! And – as you can plainly see from the title: she’s incredible! The thing is: this little lady has a BIG problem! But a problem The Deuce feels worthy of celebration!!
The life of a wife and mom in super-suburban satisfaction is fractured when she finds herself getting all shrinky-dink’d due to what is proposed as an innate inability to tolerate the constant bombardment of consumer products other suburban housewives take in stride… The culprits?? Just the everyday hairsprays, floor waxes, “feminine products,” aerosol deodorants… the usual… and maybe that space-age future-glue her adman!??!
Schumacher’s first-stab at the camp-kitsch costuming he’d bring big to his Batmans imagines a suburban world posited in past and present… or neither nor… or.. something more… and very… pastel-palette’d! And albeit re-molding much of the source-material’s horror into mostly easy-going, goofy, good-natured comedy (including a great gorilla bit!), this wacky woman-ized version still manages, among the laughs, to plumb some pathos in its bathos and strike chords of commonality that very likely had the mothers in the New Amsterdam seats saying to the men in the audience: “Don’t YOU feel small now!” And who among us doesn’t know what it’s like to feel small??
Happy Mother’s Day! To the motherly shrinking woman in all of you!!
