Caveat emptor: The subtitles seem to have been generated by drunk robot. A Depression-era comedy with class warfare themes that still chime, full of laughs that still land, and played by a cast as irresistible as ever William Powell and Carole Lombard were made to run rings around each other , this lesser-known screwball is a delight from start to finish.
It pairs the Little Tramp up with an even littler sidekick: an orphan child Jackie Coogan he takes under his wing and trains up in the art of making a lot out of very little. The restored HD version is on YouTube. Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave play two inquisitive Brits who try to uncover what has become of kindly old music teacher Miss Froy May Whitty when she suddenly disappears. Goes down easier than a cup of Earl Grey on a rainy day, though the Hitchcock cameo is quite tricky to spot in this one.
Gene Tierney is the wife who may be his saving grace. Skip the Warren Beatty remake and watch this one. It takes its inspiration from the real-life crime spree of Billy Cook in , with William Talman delivering an all-time study in deranged villainy as Emmett Myers, a gun man on the run with two hostages Edmond O'Brien and Frank Lovejoy.
In an inspired character tic, Myers literally sleeps with one eye open. Vincent Price is spectacularly sinister as a travelling witchfinder in Cromwellian England, roaming East Anglia with a view to hanging anything warty. This classic screwball is a timeless classic with machine-gun patter provided by a pair of screenwriting giants, Charles Lederer and Ben Hecht, and Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant doing the rest as two jousting exes and colleagues on a big city newspaper.
At a lean, mean 68 minutes, this Poverty Row noir is an enduring influence on just about every dark-edged thriller since — an exercise in economy, shot in just six days, that will leave you clammy-palmed and at least four percent more cynical. A bit like its antihero. A romantic comedy done the John Cassavetes way, Minnie and Moskowitz is loose and strangely lingering. The two central characters — museum curator Minnie Moore Gena Rowlands and parking attendant Seymour Moskowitz Seymour Cassel — have a craving for love that pushes them together all the gentle magnetism of two out-of-control bumper cars.
Less of a meet-cute, more of a collision. Girl with a Pearl Earring new. Genre Drama, Romance. Directed by Peter Webber. Trailer watch on YouTube.
Johansson commands the screen as Griet, a young servant in the 17th century who works for a renowned Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer Colin Firth. As Griet and Johannes become close, both of their personal lives become increasingly complex. And yet their undeniable connection leads Johannes to use Griet as a model for his masterpiece. Stargate new. Genre Action, Adventure, Science Fiction. Directed by Roland Emmerich. That may be why critics at the time hated it.
What they find is a world under the brutal reign of an alien called Ra Jaye Davidson. And together, Daniel and Jack lead an uprising against Ra and his followers. Zodiac new. Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Directed by David Fincher. Who was the Zodiac killer? Together, they chase a man who terrorizes the city and seemingly strikes at random. It changes their lives forever, and leads Robert to keep pursuing the killer no matter the personal cost to himself.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann. In turn, with child-services representative Paula Rachel House painting Ricky as an unruly wild child, one dreads the prospect of seeing the kid walk all over this possibly in-over-her-head mother. But Bella wears him down with kindness. And Ricky ends up less of a tough cookie than he—with his fondness for gangsta rap and all that implies—initially tried to project. Chaplin went against heavy studio opposition to create a more serious film in contrast to his earlier work.
However, The Kid features just as much slapstick humor as his previous shorts, but placed within a broader, more dramatic context. Year: Director: George A. The question is more accurately, "how does it hold up today? Duane Jones more than makes up for that as the heroic Ben, however, in a story that is very self-sufficient and provincial—just one small group of people in a house, with no real thought to the wider world.
But in terms of entertainment value, Romero would perfect the genre in his next few efforts. Also recommended: The remake of this film by Tom Savini, which is unfairly derided just for being faithful to its source. There are few scenes in modern cinema more taut than when investigators first question unheralded character actor John Carroll Lynch, portraying prime suspect Arthur Leigh Allen, as his facade slowly begins to erode—or so we think.
The film is a testament to the sorrow and frustration of trying to solve an ephemeral mystery that often seems to be just out of your grasp. Many superb romance films double as family dramas. Little Women , About Time and the underappreciated dramedy Tortilla Soup are prime examples of this fact. All four members of the family navigate the challenges of their personal neuroses and respective romances while attempting to maintain a semblance of normalcy around their dinner table.
Romantic love is not hierarchically positioned as more important than any other kind of love in this film. Rather, Tortilla Soup suggests that the ways people are witnessed, through the love of their chosen family, gives them the courage to demand mightier and more fulfilling love in all aspects of their lives.
Sita Sings the Blues is a study in cinematic obsession and a triumph of individual achievement for its creator, artist and animator Nina Paley. The film is a testament to how, even by , Hitchcock was shaving each of his films down to their most empirical parts, ready to create some of the most vital genre pictures of the s.
Year: Director: Edgar G. A Poverty Row staple with an unknown cast peering into the post-war dark night of the soul, Detour has come to embody the best film noir has to offer—namely, that budget and schedule concerns indirectly enriched the artistic product, paring down a weightier script and even more bloated source novel into a precise, exquisitely sharp bit of storytelling economy.
As much an efficient encapsulation of its genre as it is a noir drowning entirely within its own hell-bent nightmare, Detour is most impressive for how gracefully Ulmer can get the most out of so little.
Year: Director: Jamie Babbit. In our current climate, it feels strange to have a gay conversion therapy camp serve as the backdrop for a love affair between two young women.
Luckily for our heroine Megan Natasha Lyonne , she finds that love with Graham Clea DuVall , another kid sent by her parents to be converted to heterosexuality. Their connection and chemistry is immediate, given life by the understated and thoughtful performances by the two leads. Year: Director: Roberto Benigni Runtime: minutes. Italian writer, director, actor and concentrated ball of exuberance Roberto Benigni brought comedy to a story of a Nazi concentration camp without downplaying the tragedy.
Year: Directors: Gina Prince-Blythewood. And although the director describes her own film as a love story, anyone expecting a mere romance will, again, be pleasantly disappointed. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays a talented, rising star who grew up singing Nina Simone, but finds herself getting stripped down literally , and auto-tuned up to have a career—one in which her mother played by Minnie Driver often has the final say.
Nate Parker plays a police officer heading towards the political career laid out for him carefully and laboriously by his father played by Danny Glover.
Oh yes, these lovers are star-crossed, but the complexities explored in the journey of their relationship is what makes Beyond the Lights one of the most compelling and audacious movies of the year. Prince-Bythewood has given us a pulsating, exquisitely intense cinematic experience, with a critique of the pop music industry and the political landscape—both of which require its participants to sell themselves to the public, often selling off a bit or more of their souls in the process.
These are powerful messages for a romantic film, and Prince-Bythewood is the right director to deliver them. Last year, Gina Prince-Bythewood released an incredible film about love, the music industry, politics and artistry, titled Beyond the Lights. For the many critics who fell in love with—and championed the film—it was disappointing to see how many people missed out on this great story, which is why many of us made a point to continue shouting from the rooftops about it.
Rent at YouTube. Undine opens as a rom-com might. A lilting piano score, not without a shade of sadness, purrs quietly during the title cards. She could actually murder this guy. What once felt familiar now feels pregnant with dread. Undine is a water spirit, making covenants with men on land in order to access a human soul as well as a tasteful professional wardrobe. Breaking that covenant is fatal. He plays a man who was born into a TV show, literally. Everyone else in the town, including his parents and his wife, are all actors.
The movie is a satire on the media, but it also predicted the rise of reality TV just before it became a significant trend. John Dunbar. He encounters a tribe of Native Americans who slowly start to trust this outsider. However, Durbar later has to choose between the Army and his new tribemates. Action movie fans should love this recent film. The duo are assigned to stop a potential attack by terrorists. This movie is all about perseverance and overcoming obstacles.
It revolves around a teenager on the wrong side of the tracks, working for a drug dealer connected with his brother. However, the boy dreams of a better life for himself. His dream is to become even faster in hopes of gaining a college scholarship and getting out of the place he currently calls home.
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