A Real Pain
Jewish American cousins David and Benji (Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) visit Poland to trace their grandmother’s roots in this buddy comedy/drama. Written and directed by Eisenberg, the semi-autobiographical road […]
Tag Archives: road movie
Paris, Texas
After being found adrift in the desert, Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) is reunited with the son (Hunter Carson) he abandoned four years earlier. Almost 40 years since its Palme […]
Scarecrow
A pair of drifters (a young Al Pacino and a middle aged Gene Hackman) drift into each other while drifting in the countryside. They decide to drift together for a […]
Thelma & Louise
Two Southern redheads (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) go on the run after shooting a rapist in this 1991 road movie. Remember roads? One of the best films of the ’90s, […]
Green Book
Based on a true story, Green Book follows a streetwise Italian American (Viggo Mortensen) who becomes the chauffeur for well-mannered black pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) during a tour of […]
Mississippi Grind
This 2015 road movie stars Rogue One‘s Ben Mendelsohn in a much more down-to-earth role as down-and-out gambler Gerry, who befriends the slightly younger Curtis, played by Ryan Reynolds; he’s Hollywood’s own gambler’s fallacy: bet on […]
American Honey
The most overused naming convention in the history of cinema strikes again with American Honey, an indie road movie about an 18-year-old girl called Star (Sasha Lane), who meets travelling magazine […]
Rain Man
Not to be confused with Rayman, this 1988 drama stars a different cartoon character (Tom Cruise) as selfish car salesman Charlie Babbitt, who learns that his deceased father has left […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Get On The Bus
In 1995, a bus full of men are heading Washington D.C. to attend Farrakhan’s Million Man March for black rights. They include a father and son tethered together (Thomas Jefferson […]
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Back in July I wrote an article for the Guardian on Guy Pearce’s five best performances. As you can see from the comments I rather glaringly omitted Priscilla, Queen of the […]
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