Movies starring Bill Nighy
Time travel stories are tricky things. Although there's no hard-and-fast way to develop one, consistency is a key. As a screenwriter, when you're dealing with things like reworking history and spinning off alternate universes, it's necessary to sti...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-11-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: SCIENCE FICTION/COMEDY
Director: Richard Curtis
Cast: Domhall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, ...
When it comes to Christmas movies, although most are quickly forgotten, a select few go on to become touchstones, beloved and re-watched by families year after year after year. Arthur Christmas may have what it takes to join the latter category. Wi...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-11-23
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: Sarah Smith
Cast: (voices) James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, ...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is one of those pleasant, inoffensive British movies that offers a passably entertaining two hours without providing material that could be construed as edgy or stimulating. The problem may be that it's a little too p...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-05-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy Penelope Wilson, ...
For his follow-up to City of God, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles has elected to adapt John Le Carré's The Constant Gardener into movie form. A slow-burn thriller simmering with international intrigue, the book would at first seem too long ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-08-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: THRILLER
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, ...
William Shakespeare. Charles Dickens. Jane Austen. Those three authors are perhaps the most frequently adapted writers of classic novels in the relatively short history of cinema. There’s a reason for that. The timeless nature of their outpu...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-03-06
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, ...
In the past few years, CGI animated films have fallen into a depressing rut. The objective has become getting a product out the door rather than taking the time and effort to produce something memorable. The result has been a generic, formulaic m...
U.S. Release Date: 2006-11-03
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Profanity)
Genre: ANIMATED
Director: David Bowers, Sam Fell
Cast: (voices) Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellan, ...
I feel bad for Hoyt Yeatman. I really do, although perhaps not as bad as I feel for myself for having sat through his feature debut. But here's a guy who has paid his dues. He got started way back in 1977 helping out in the special effects depar...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-07-24
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Hoyt Yeatman
Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Kelli Garner, Bill Nighy, ...
For those who are fans of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's five-book "trilogy," I have two words of advice: Don't Panic! The 2005 film version of the book isn't nearly as bad as many Hitchhiker's lovers have feared. Of course, it's also not as good as i...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-04-29
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: COMEDY/SCIENCE FICTION
Director: Garth Jennings
Cast: Martin Freeman, Stephen Fry (voice), Alan Rickman (voice), ...
"From the producers of Underworld." Hmmm. Is that supposed to get me excited? Truth be told, such a tag line might be effective because, as pointless and shallow as the Underworld films are, they have a devoted following. Sadly, as apt as comparis...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-01-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: ACTION
Director: Stuart Beattie
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Bill Nighy, ...
Jack the Giant Slayer is an enjoyable fantasy/adventure whose magic is partially undermined by marginal 3-D. Once again, the ugliest aspects of this format rear their heads: dim and fuzzy images, lackluster colors, and poor definition. Everything i...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-03-01
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: FANTASY/ADVENTURE
Director: Bryan Singer
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor, ...