Brighton Rock
This British film noir from 1947 stars Richard Attenborough as a Brighton gangster named Pinkie, who marries a murder witness in order to keep her quiet. It was released in […]
This British film noir from 1947 stars Richard Attenborough as a Brighton gangster named Pinkie, who marries a murder witness in order to keep her quiet. It was released in […]
If you want to know how to marry a millionaire you could ask Jerry Hall, or you could watch this film, in which three young women (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable […]
Based on the memoirs of Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a promising high school basketball player and writer, who becomes addicted to heroin. This 1995 drama starts out like Saturday […]
The Inglorious Bastards is an Italian movie from 1978, not to be confused with Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds or even Inglorious Bar Staff, a film I just made up. Starring Reese Wetherspoons. A loose […]
Two young siblings face a magical journey home in this 2014 animation, based on the Irish myth of the selkie. Like Inside Out, the film concerns childhood sadness, but unlike […]
The story of an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a mob insider (Matt Damon), The Departed is the best film about a rat and a mole since The Wind in […]
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… I won’t give any plot details here as you can probably guess the kind of things that happen and […]
Rocky goes to the Rockies in this 1993 mountaineering actioner starring Sylvester Stallone. When a group of incompetent criminals steal three suitcases full of cash, which were being transported from a place […]
For me, the best part of Christmas is the horror movies – specifically, their taglines. Who can forget Black Christmas: “It’s beginning to look a lot like bloodshed!” Or from […]
In the Heart of the Sea has the unenviable twin tasks of a) going up against the new Star Wars film and b) trying to make a whale movie half […]