The Ring (1927)
The Ring is a silent film from 1927, made by director (and screenwriter here, the only film to give him sole credit) Alfred Hitchcock (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps). It’s a familiar...
Category: Drama
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Starting in the 1840s United States, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, a free Black man living as a carpenter and musician in Saratoga, NY, with his wife and two children. Two white men...
About Time (2013)
Domhnall Gleeson stars as a young London lawyer named Tim Lake, whose recent heart-to-heart birthday chat with his usually undemonstrative father (Nighy) reveals an astonishing secret. It seems that men in their family line have...
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
David Lowery writes and directs this Badlands-esque, lyrically melancholy, Western-tinged, Texas-based drama about outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), a convicted felon who makes his way out of prison to try to reconnect with Ruth Guthrie (Mara),...
Key Largo (1948)
Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon) stars as retired Army Major Frank McCloud, a drifter who has traveled to Key Largo in southern Florida for a new life path and stops on the way...
Adore (2013) | aka Perfect Mothers | aka Adoration
Adore is the first English-language film to be directed by French director Anne Fontaine, adapted from the novella. “The Grandmothers,” by Doris Lessing, based on an anecdote told to her by a friend. It...
The Grandmaster (2013)
The unfortunate story behind The Grandmaster is how much of a labor of love it had been for its director/co-writer and acclaimed auteur Wong Kar-Wai (My Blueberry Nights), who spent the good part of a decade...
Prince Avalanche (2013)
David Gordon Green (Your Highness, Undertow) returns to his art-housey roots as a small-scale, poignant independent filmmaker after the last few years making some fairly dumb, zany comedies, and proves he still has the magic...
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Fruitvale Station is based on the true story of the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant in the early hours of New Year’s Day, 2009. The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to...
A Hijacking (2012)
A Hijacking is a fictional drama that is based on incidents that occurred in 2007-08, which Somali pirates took over shipping freighters in the open seas for a ransom of large sums of money...