Dazed and Confused
Synopsis: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused eavesdrops […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Stand by Me
Synopsis: In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends — sensitive Gordie (Wil Wheaton), tough-guy Chris (River Phoenix), flamboyant Teddy (Corey Feldman), and scaredy-cat Vern (Jerry O’Connell) — […]
Across the Universe
Synopsis: Across The Universe from director Julie Taymor, is a revolutionary rock musical that re-imagines American in the turbulent late 1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at […]
The Descendants
Synopsis: From the celebrated director of Sideways (Alexander Payne) comes a wonderfully warm and witty film that Rolling Stone calls “damn near perfect.” Academy Award winner “George Clooney leads the […]
On peut toujours rêver
Synopsis: Media mogul, leader of industry and high finance, Charles de Boislevé, nicknamed “the Emperor” by the press, is worn and tired of exercising power. Isolated from his family, who […]
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Synopsis: In this rural comedy Pierre Cohen (Pierre Richard) is a sophisticated Parisian psychologist who travels to his brother’s farm in Britanny to save it from a hostile takeover by […]
Play it Again, Sam
Synopsis: Woody Allen’s wonderful comedy was his first film with Diane Keaton, a relationship that would eventually bring them both Oscars® (Annie Hall). Allen plays Allen, a fanatical movie buff […]
Xing ji dun tai
Synopsis: ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it’s unlike any sci-fi flick you’ve ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, […]
Piranha (2010)
Synopsis: There’s Something In The Water From director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) comes the new action thriller Piranha. Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from […]
Being There
Synopsis: After Being There was published, author Jerzy Kosinski got a telegram from its lead character Chance the Gardner: “Available in my garden or outside of it.” Kosinski dialed the accompanying telephone […]
The Thin Man
Synopsis: Nick and Nora Charles cordially invite you to bring your own alibi to The Thin Man, the jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite […]
Pleasantville
Synopsis: In the black-and-white ’50s sitcom realm of Pleasantville, mom always has a yummy meatloaf in the oven, the home team never loses and romance is a shy peck on […]
Le jumeau
Synopsis: When a man decides to play the role of twins in order to romance another set of twins, life becomes much more complicated than he wants or needs in […]
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