Ever had insomnia so bad you decided to become a taxi driver and slowly descend into violent psychosis? Meet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a Vietnam vet whose idea of a self-improvement program makes Fight Club look like a mindfulness retreat. Travis takes a job driving a taxi on New York’s night shift, which in…
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 – 1921 3/5 stars This one starts with an ingĂ©nue who has a baby but the father isn’t interested (doesn’t believe it’s his? Who knows with silent movies) so she is desperate to keep her career so she does the unthinkable and abandons the baby in a rich person’s…
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…