Roman Polanski’s The Pianist is one of those movies that doesn’t just tell a story—it makes you live inside it, smothering you in a slow, methodical descent into hell. If you came looking for a standard World War II drama with sweeping battle scenes, a rousing musical score, and an obligatory moment where someone nobly…
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker isn’t just a war movie—it’s a 131-minute stress test for your central nervous system. This isn’t one of those big, sweeping, patriotic spectacles where war is just a backdrop for heroism, camaraderie, and some dude writing sentimental letters home while soft orchestral music swells. No, this is war as pure,…
Here’s the thing about Selma: it’s a movie that takes one of the most pivotal moments in American history and refuses to wrap it in the usual Hollywood gloss. No, this isn’t a feel-good, triumphal march where the music swells and justice is delivered with a bow on top. This is history as it was—messy,…
If The Artist were a person, it would be that charming, slightly eccentric friend who’s always impeccably dressed and seems to have stepped out of a time machine just to make your life a bit more interesting. This is a film that dares you not to fall in love with it. Set in the late…
If Everything Everywhere All at Once were a person, it would be the most chaotic, over-caffeinated, emotionally unstable, and absurdly wise friend you have—the one who somehow makes you laugh, cry, and question the meaning of life in the span of a single conversation. This movie isn’t just a film; it’s a full-body experience. It…
When Your Prison Escape Plan Needs a Second Draft Ever had one of those days where you try to dodge work by checking yourself into a mental hospital? No? Well, meet Randle Patrick McMurphy, a guy whose attempt to escape manual labor makes “quit your job and start a pottery business” look like a solid…
In what might be history’s most audacious case of “dress for the job you want, not the job you have,” Charlie Chaplin plays both a mild-mannered Jewish barber and his exact doppelganger, Adenoid Hynkel, the power-hungry dictator of Tomania (subtle, Charlie, real subtle). Our story begins in the trenches of World War I, where our…
Category: Silent Film, Comedy Starring: Charlie Chaplin Another Chaplin movie (a lot of his seem to make most ‘best movie’ lists and I can start to see why. In this particular one he reprise the role of the tramp and the movie opens with him taking a nap under a tarp that is later revealed…
Charlie Chaplin Silent Movie / Comedy In a reprisal of Chaplin’s ‘tramp’ persona he heads off to the Alaskan territory with just his cane (and woefully underdressed) looking to capitalize on the gold rush. He runs into a storm and takes shelter in what seems to be an abandoned cabin – but its currently being…
Type: Silent Movie, Comedy Starring: Buster Keaton The origin of slapstick comedy in movies? This movie is 100 years old but the laughs are pretty timeless. Keaton plays a train engineer who loves his train and Annabelle, a woman in his town. The movie is set at the outbreak of the civil war and when…