Quiz Call: The Woman in the Window
First up The Woman in the Window (“Films with ‘Man’ in the title“) a film which is certainly obscure enough to be a Quiz Call answer, even if it doesn’t […]
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The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions continues where its predecessor (and the one before that) left off, with Zion on the brink of invasion and Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) off the deep end of religious […]
The Matrix
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the film that gave us bullet time, Neo and the song Closer. Or was that Ne-Yo? Considering it established the aesthetic for 10 […]
Grateful Dawg
This 2000 documentary explores the musical partnership between David Grisman and Jerry Garcia, the world’s greatest mandolinist and guitarist respectively. Sorry if that’s controversial. People get very opinionated about mandolin […]
Family Business
Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick star as three generations of a mixed-heritage family with history in organised crime. Grandpa Jesse (Connery) raised his son Vito (Hoffman) to follow […]
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Rapaport (Gary from Friends) dissects the rap rapport of hip-hop’s greatest quartet in this 2011 documentary. Although it’s weird hearing Phoebe’s cop boyfriend’s voice between Tribe verses, it’s Rapaport’s […]
The Campaign
When incumbent congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) commits a major gaffe on the campaign trail, wealthy donors the Motch Brothers (Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow) back a new horse in the […]
Three Amigos
Three silent film stars (Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) are mistaken for actual gunslingers capable of saving a Mexican village from a local tyrant and of selling a […]
Liar Liar
Jim Carrey plays a hotshot lawyer who’s always disappointing his young son and estranged wife (Justin Cooper and Maura Tierney) by failing to show up to things. But when he […]
I’ve Never Seen…When Harry Met Sally
This 1989 romcom stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as Harry and Sally who, after a chance encounter, seek to remain friends in spite of Harry’s insistence that a (heterosexual) […]
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