Critics Consensus: Solid work from Dennis Quaid helps elevate The Hill, but this fact-based underdog drama is only intermittently inspirational. Reviews Battleship Pretension David Bax It’s sweet, earnest and honest. 1732066170000 FULL REVIEW Decider Raven Brunner The movie’s story is cliché and...
If the inspirational underdog film The Hill weren’t based on a true story, no one would believe it. By David Grove Feb 3, 2024 The Hill Review: A Good Movie About Baseball and Faith with a Weak Script Movie and TV Reviews 2023's The Hill manages to survive its lengthy runtime...
The Hill: Directed by Jeff Celentano. With Dennis Quaid, Colin Ford, Joelle Carter, Scott Glenn. The true story of Rickey Hill, the son of a travelling pastor who overcomes physical obstacles to pursue his dream of playing baseball in the major leagues.
(Four Weddings and a Funeral,Sense and Sensibility,Bridget Jones’ Diary,Notting Hill), and now a new ringmaster of creepiness. This is his first bona fide horror flick (no, I’m not countingThe Lair of the WhiteWorm, back in 1988), and he kills it as Reed’s suave, smooth, mild-...
With a goofily propulsive script by co-star Jonah Hill — back when he was still getting typecast as that Superbad dork — and Michael Bacall, and strong supporting performances by Dave Franco, Rob Riggle, Brie Larson, Holly Robinson Peete, and yes, Ice Cube, 21 Jump Street had its very...
Produced by Ridley Scott, Michael Pruss, Walter Hill etc. Main Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wuetc. Cinematography by Galo Olivares *** CONTAINS SPOILERS *** Did we need anotherAlienfilm?Prometheus(2012)was a box office success while...
Bombing the Hill: Directed by Jonah Ocuto. With Olivia Porto, Mac Rapach, Justin Wellington. A young boy's journey into adolescence leads him to the doorstep of an autistic woman and introduces him to the sad reality of what it means to be a man.
One of the best films of the 1990s, Martin Scorsese’s telling of the story of Henry Hill changed the language of how we tell stories about mobsters, and it’s a work that only feels more like a classic with each passing year. GoodFellas has held up perfectly over the last three decad...
The script could have done a little more maybe, (a couple of the innuendo jokes could be seen trimming their whiskers as they came over the hill), but the cast performed well, Keaton always seems to be playing Annie Hall for me, but that's perhaps not a bad thing. Bergen gets the ...
Before he helmed The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan co-wrote and directed one of the best Netflix Original horror films in this adaptation of Stephen King’s 1992 novel of the same name. Carla Gugino is phenomenal as a woman who gets handcuffed to her bed by her toxic husband…and...