Robert Rodriguez collaborates with his kids on this whimsical fantasy that celebrates and encourages the fantasy lives of children. See a very young Taylor Lautner as Sharkboy.
Claire Denis’s vivid and visceral thriller stars Michel Subor as a grizzled old lone wolf whose globetrotting odyssey is strewn thorugh with contradictions, conundrums, and fantasies.
Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman mythos for the big screen in 2005, bringing the often lighthearted hero back to the shadows, both figuratively and literally.
Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins costar in Spielberg’s thrilling take on the H.G. Wells alien invasion novel, giving both an epic sweep and an intimate core to the film.
The 2005 remake of the 1933 classic is an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology by a filmmaker with both the skill and the heart to recapture the thrills of his adolescent moviehouse dreams.
Judd Apatow made his directorial debut with this oddly sweet mix of romantic comedy and adolescent shenanigans costarring Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, and Seth Rogen.
Ben Stiller and Chris Rock headline the voice cast of this animated comic odyssey of four New York City zoo animals shipped back to the wilds of Africa, where they have idea how to survive.
Neil Marshall’s nerve wracking, claustrophobic survival thriller about six spelunking women turns into a gripping horror film featuring the creepiest cave dwellers to skitter across a screen.