Brief Encounter
A bored housewife (Celia Johnson) encounters a handsome doctor (Trevor Howard) at the train station in the appropriately named Milford. But these acquaintances on a train have a profound effect […]
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Predators
This 2010 sci-fi sequel follows another band of humans (including Adrien Brody, Mahershala Ali and Topher Grace) who find themselves hunted by Predators, like an inverted version of the episode […]
Phantasm
A hooded dwarf. A guitar-playing ice cream man. A shapeshifting mortician. But enough about the Brexit Party MEPs; let’s talk Phantasm. This 1979 cult horror is written, directed, produced, edited […]
Hobson’s Choice
Shoe shop owner Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is intent on marrying off his two younger daughters (Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales) while keeping his eldest, Maggie (Brenda de Banzie), to […]
Goodfellas
A bunch of low-level crooks behave terribly for two and a half hours. While the subject matter, title and running time suggests a Godfather-style crime epic, Goodfellas is actually every […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Hairspray (1988)
It’s Baltimore in 1963 and all the local teens are going crazy for the Corny Collins Show which features kids in the area busting their best moves. There’s only one […]
The Wife
They say that behind every great man is a great woman, but The Wife is about a great woman (Glenn Close) who’s stuck behind a mediocre man, namely Joe Castleman […]
No Man of Her Own
In one of four films Barbara Stanwyck made in 1950, she plays a pregnant woman mistaken for the person whose wedding ring she happens to be wearing during a train […]
The Fugitive
Harrison Ford is Richard Kimble, a doctor who’s wrongly accused of murdering his wife, not to be confused with John Kimble, a cop who pretends to be a kindergarten teacher. […]
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