The 400 Blows: This Boy’s Life

Jean-Pierre Léaud. Photo: Cocinor I do recall watching this movie in film class, but it didn’t have that much of an impact on me at the time. I find that…

Bridget Jones’s Baby 

Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger), 43, suddenly finds herself pregnant, but who’s the father – her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), an American billionaire and inventor?…

Days of Wine and Roses: When the Party’s Over

Lee Remick. Photo: Warner When making this film, director Blake Edwards and actors Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick were still drinking. Edwards has described himself and Lemmon as ”heavy drinkers”…

Stagecoach: Introducing John Wayne

Andy Devine, John Wayne and Louise Platt. Photo: United Artists Today, we remember John Ford as a great director of Westerns. In 1939, that wasn’t really the case. Ford hadn’t…

The New Mutants 

When 16-year-old Danielle (Blu Hunt) wakes up in a hospital chained to her bed, she learns that she’s now a patient there together with other teenagers who have one thing…

The Old Guard 

When a Marine (KiKi Layne) survives having her throat slit by an enemy fighter in Afghanistan, she’s extracted by a group of warriors led by Andy (Charlize Theron) who tell…

Nightwatch

Law student Martin Bork (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is hired as a nightwatchman at a forensic institute in Copenhagen; at the same time, someone is murdering prostitutes in the city. In this…

Bound 

Ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) starts a passionate affair with Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the girlfriend of a mobster (Joe Pantoliano); together they come up with a plan of how to steal…

Passion of Joan of Arc: Saint on Trial

Renée Jeanne Falconetti. Photo: Gaumont After making the film Master of the House in 1925, the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer spent time in France and learned that he was…

99 Homes 

Unemployed Orlando construction worker Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is evicted from his home, along with his mother (Laura Dern) and son… but then he starts working for the man who…