History [nf]

1999

PG13

Plot: Throughout his work, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has sought out characters lost in their own eccentric worlds, and he has managed to convey their sense of wonder with their passion, be it a topi ...

Historical Film

1963

G

Plot: 1963s The Sword in the Stone is Disneys animated take on Arthurian legend. In the midst of the Dark Ages, when England has no rightful ruler, a sword imbedded in a stone mysteriously appe ...

Plot: A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they dont much care for her in this comedy from writer and director Thomas Bezucha. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessm ...

War

1987

R

Plot: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career sold ...

Adventure

1984

PG

Plot: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they arent remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Turner has never ha ...

Drama

2003

R

Plot: Tennessee Williams 1958 novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone was first filmed in 1961, with Vivien Leigh as the middle-aged title character and Warren Beatty as the callow gigolo with whom she falls ...

2003

NR

Plot: This anime TV series takes place 14 years after the events of the Ninja Scroll movie. We find Kibagami Jubei wandering Japan once more, a masterless warrior living by his sword. Da ...

Plot: Transplanted L.A. cop Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) attempts to solve the murder of a teenage girl while simultaneously dealing with a deadly case of domestic violence in this mystery that marks the ...

Plot: A former Los Angeles cop is relegated to watching over the tiny town of Paradise, Massachusetts in this prequel to the highly rated made for television movie Stone Cold (2005). Ada ...

Fantasy

2001

PG

Plot: The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for f ...

Culture & Society

2002

PG13

Plot: In 1972, 18-year-old Mark Moskowitz read a positive review in the New York Times Book Review that inspired him to get a copy of Dow Mossmans novel, The Stones of Summer. An avid reader, Moskowitz found ...