The Missouri Breaks
A gang of rustlers headed by Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) find themselves in conflict with an eccentric ”regulator” (Marlon Brando). Arthur Penn’s Western was considered a bomb by many after…
Exodus: A Battle for Israel
Paul Newman. Photo: United Artists There was a time in my youth when I believed in a solution in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. After the fall of…
Mortal Kombat II
Washed-up action star Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) is approached by people with strange powers who need him to fight with them in an upcoming Mortal Kombat tournament. Just as promised…
Another Country
In the 1930s, a gay student (Rupert Everett) at an Eton-type university grows increasingly tired of the school’s system of oppression and suppression. The play is a British classic, especially…
A Slight Case of Murder
When Prohibition ends, bootlegger Remy Marco (Edward G. Robinson) forces his gang (and wife) to go straight, building a brewing empire… but nothing goes his way. Not one of the…
Greenland: Migration
Five years after reaching Greenland, the Garritys are forced to leave the underground bunker and find a new sanctuary on what’s left of the European continent. There’s hope for a…
Random Harvest: Deconstructing Smithy
Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. Photo: MGM It didn’t take long for James Hilton’s novel to be filmed. After all, two previous books he wrote became highly successful movies, Lost…
Almost Forever
A documentary following a group of Stockholm teenagers from the age of 14 throughout their graduation when they’re 19. The kids were given cameras and the freedom to chronicle their…
The End of Oak Street
One day in 1982, the Platts discover that their whole neighborhood has been transported to a time and place millions of years away. There were some excited critics who called…
Following
An aspiring writer (Jeremy Theobald) tries to find inspiration by following people around London; he’s soon caught by Cobb (Alex Haw), who draws him into his burglaries, which follow a…