Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young kid with a special ability: He sees dead people. His family and the people of his town fear and hate him for this, all except for a chubby, dim-witted kid named Neil (Tucker Albrizzi). After the passing of Norman's uncle (John Goodman), he comes back to warn Norman that a local legend about a witch's curse is true and that he must stop her from wreaking havoc.

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In the final chapter of the Back to the Future trilogy, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) finds himself traveling back to 1885 to once again rescue the life of Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). The culture shock is even greater, as are the laughs and the action, as Marty and Doc Brown battle love, time and wild west outlaws.

Talk about going out on a high note. Back to the Future Part III takes what really worked…

In the second pairing of director Christopher Nolan and the titular Dark Knight, Batman (Christian Bale), we find the caped crusader battling a new foe: The Joker (Heath Ledger). In contrast to his previous task of bringing down an elite team of highly skilled killers trained to follow very specific rules, Joker has no rules and works as a force of nature against Gotham City. While Batman and the new District Attorney…

Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is an average kid in high school with an above average I.Q. He finds himself helping Dr. Curtis Connors (Rhys Ifans), an old friend of his father's, on a regeneration chemical that could bring back Connor's arm. But things go awry as Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider and gains super strength and agility. He, as any kid would, uses this power to goof off until Connor's chemical…

There's so much to be said about this movie but it's so hard to put it into words. I suppose that could be said about just about anything directors Joel and Ethan Coen have done. But A Serious Man is by far their most personal and psychological film. It's the story of a man, Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), whose life is unravelling right before his eyes. His wife (Sari Lennick) is leaving him for Sy Ableman (Fred…

Batman (Michael Keaton) returns indeed, and just in time too because a new threat has surfaced. A malformed man known as Penguin (Danny DeVito) has risen from the sewers of Gotham and has plans to take over the city to avenge the way it has treated him. With this also comes Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer), better known as Catwoman, as she becomes another road block in both Batman and Bruce Wayne's lives.

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Sweeney Todd is a masterpiece of musical theater, mixing high drama and terrifying situations with some of the darkest comedy you'll get anywhere. It stands to reason that this sort of thing should be adapted to the screen by somebody like director Tim Burton, and he did a marvelous job at it. A lot of things had to be changed to make it work as a modern-day musical, but the changes work and the things that aren't changed…

Although Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a newer adaptation of a work that had previously been adapted into a film that is famous in its own right, I don't feel like you can compare the two. I only start with this because when this film came out that's pretty much all anybody did was compare them, but I feel like they're different enough with different angles on the story. That being said, I find Charlie and the…

Big Fish tells the story of Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor/Albert Finney), a man on his death bed who through his life has told some amazing tales of adventure, romance, horror and suspense. His son William (Billy Crudup) comes to see him in his dying days to learn the truth behind his outlandish tales. But what Will doesn't understand is that his father's stories are more than just fabrications, and he struggles to…

It's been several decades since his death, but Edward D. Wood Jr. is still considered one of if not the worst director in the history of film. Not many people however consider the frustration and sheer will-power he put into every one of his films. His love of storytelling drove him through the good times and the bad, and he had plenty of bad. This biopic stands as a celebration of not only his compassion but the very…

It's hard to describe Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens). He's the original man-child, before it was overplayed and annoying. In his first movie, his prized bicycle is stolen by his rival Francis (Mark Holton) and he must travel the United States to find it. It's a hilarious adventure that everyone can enjoy.

Paul Reubens created in Pee-wee a character that is relatable on levels you wouldn't have expected. He is in…

Two years after a messy divorce, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) finds herself marrying the newly wealthy and famous George Kittredge (John Howard). But as the wedding is about to go off, her old husband C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) brings in reporters Macaulay "Mike" Connor (Jimmy Stewart) and Elizabeth Imbrie (Ruth Hussey) to write on the new couple's private life as a way to get himself back into Tracy's life. What's…