Chinatown: Polanski’s Farewell to America

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Photo: Paramount In the early days, Los Angeles was just a village. But as it grew in the late 19th century, it needed a better…

Terminator Genisys 

When Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), he finds a changed past; she already knows everything about Skynet… and there is…

Battleship Potemkin: Turning the World Into Bolsheviks

Photo: Mosfilm Battleship Potemkin was released in 1930 in Germany, three years before Adolf Hitler was elected Reich Chancellor. The film was never a huge hit in its native Soviet…

The Fourth Man

The sequel to Death of a Pilgrim (2013) also hops between three different time periods, depicting intrigue behind the 1975 occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm; a murder…

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

In 2026, when most of the human population has been wiped out by a virus, Caesar is leading a tribe of apes in the Muir Woods; one day, they run…

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 

After winning the Hunger Games, tributes Katniss and Peeta (Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson) inspire rebellions in several districts, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) comes up with a new version of…

The Hunger Games 

As punishment for a past uprising, twelve districts must offer their rulers two "tributes", a boy and a girl, to compete in the Hunger Games where they fight to the…

Rope 

Brandon and Phillip (John Dall, Farley Granger) strangle a former classmate to death and hide his body in a wooden chest in their apartment, moments before hosting a party where…

Headhunters 

Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a successful headhunter, but suffers from inferiority complex and steals valuable paintings to pay for his lavish lifestyle; suddenly, he faces a formidable rival. A…

High and Low 

When his driver's little boy is kidnapped, wealthy businessman Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) has to decide if he's willing to put his entire career and fortune at stake to save…