Contributor: Steven Isaac

This is a junior high-level project about Dumb, Dumber and Dumberer—three guys who couldn’t fill out Army uniforms if they found them at a costume store.

Dakota Fanning, Kurt Russell and the gorgeous Kentucky countryside compete for screen time in this gently-paced family film about how a racehorse changes one family forever.

What’s Zathura? If you’re playing the game, it’s the place you land on to win. But really it’s the place brothers end up at after they finally stop bickering.

Based on the 1961 Disney classic, “The Absent-Minded Professor,” this film centers on the life of Professor Phillip Brainard.

A first-year film student would be proud of creating a movie like this. Three years later, he or she would have progressed well beyond it.

A twisted homage to both Backdraft and Natural Born Killers, this movie centers on two men who love to kill. They pretend their heinous deeds are driven by a desire for fame and fortune. Right.

A spoiled spoof of rock star biopics in general, and of Johnny Cash’s ‘Walk the Line’ in particular, springs from the minds of reigning raunch-comedy kings Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan.

After ‘Facing the Giants’ on the gridiron, that self-proclaimed ‘small church in Georgia’ is facing the fires that can flare up in marriage.

Leopold’s winsomely old-fashioned manners, respect for others, chivalry and courtesy contradict—to good effect—Kate and her fellow New Yorkers’ hurry-scurry, me-first mentalities.

Eat your heart out Clark Griswold! Your Christmas lights are a disgrace compared to Buddy Hall’s. (But Buddy’s movie doesn’t trump anyone.)

Set during World War II, “U-571” is a fictional tale inspired by a composite of events that transpired during the Battle of the Atlantic.

Dudley was born to be a Royal Canadian Mountie. Snidely was born to be evil and make Dudley’s life miserable. Nell was born to be fought over by Dudley and Snidely.

Eighth-grader Jason Shepherd is a liar. He tells fibs about everything, and everyone knows it.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie that captures a 13-year-old American boy’s perfect spy fantasy as well as this one does.

Take everything you know about how love works (or doesn’t work) when two people who are crazy about each other find themselves doomed to a life of separation by time, distance or culture—and remove the woman from the equation.