Although it's not as bold as Oscar darling Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera continues the resuscitation of the movie musical with a faithful adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster stage musical. Emmy Rossum glows in a breakout role as opera ingénue Christine Daae, and if phantom Gerard Butler isn't Rossum's match vocally, he does convey menace and sensuality in such ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie DriverDirected By: Joel Schumacher
Following Val Kilmer's portrayal of the caped crusader in Batman Forever, the fourth Batman feature stars George Clooney under the pointy-eared cowl, with Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin the Boy Wonder. This time the dynamic duo is up against the nefarious Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is bent on turning the world into an iceberg, and the slyly seductive but highly toxic ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia SilverstoneDirected By: Joel Schumacher
When Tim Burton and Michael Keaton announced that they'd had enough of the Batman franchise, director Joel Schumacher stepped in (with Burton as coproducer) to make this action-packed extravaganza starring Val Kilmer as the caped crusader. Batman is up against two of Gotham City's most colorful criminals, the Riddler (a role tailor-made for funnyman Jim Carrey) and the diabolical Two-Face ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'DonnellDirected By: Joel Schumacher
You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver PlattDirected By: Joel Schumacher
A collective vanity piece for the so-called Brat Pack of the 1980s, this coming-of-age movie--written and directed by Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill)--is a largely unbelievable ensemble piece about college grads having trouble getting a lift-off into adulthood. As in John Hughes's Breakfast Club--which has a lot of casting overlap with this film--each actor plays a rather narrow ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Emilio Estevez, Judd NelsonDirected By: Joel Schumacher
This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons, and granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward HerrmannDirected By: Joel Schumacher
The exceptionally fine cast--Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, J.T. Walsh, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Edwards, William H. Macy, Anthony LaPaglia, Ossie Davis, and Brad Renfro--goes a long way toward making The Client one of the more solidly enjoyable screen adaptations of a John Grisham southern gothic legal thriller. Teen-hearthrob Renfro is a natural, playing a kid whose life is in ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPagliaDirected By: Joel Schumacher
Manufacturer: UmvdStarring: Max Gail, Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Charlie Barnett, Gary BuseyDirected By: Joel Schumacher
This thoroughly unpleasant thriller from the hands of Joel Schumacher (Batman and Robin) offers very little in its lurid tour of snuff films and the seedy pornographic underworld. A wooden Nicolas Cage stars as a private detective hired by a tycoon's widow, who discovers in her dead husband's safe some 8mm footage of a young girl being sexually abused and slaughtered. Cage's job is to ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Anthony HealdDirected By: Joel Schumacher
