The Irishman (2019)
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
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Batman (1989)
There is no denying that Tim Burton’s Batman is a marvel of art and set design, and if nothing else, quite the piece of eye candy. However, while the story-line is functional enough to still be...
Baby Driver (2017)
Set in Atlanta, Ansel Elgort (Allegiant, Insurgent) plays Baby, a baby-faced (naturally) but extremely talented driver who constantly plays music on several of his old iPods while he works in order to overcome his persistent...
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Set in New York in 1981 (its most violent year, naturally), Abel Morales (Isaac, The Two Faces of January) is an up-and-coming fuel distributor looking to close the deal on some prime property to give...
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...
Mean Streets (1973)
One of the main themes in Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough film, Mean Streets, is that paying for your sins isn’t done in the confession booth — it’s done right in the streets — what goes around...
Dick Tracy (1990)
Following on the heels of the ravenously successful Batman, director-star Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait, Bonnie and Clyde) gives us another crime-fighting detective from around the same era, full of stylish artwork, sets, and a score...
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
It’s the 1920s, the Jazz Age in New York. Struggling intellectual playwright David Shayne (Cusack, The Grifters) finally has the chance to earn his first Broadway production, but to have the finances to see his dream...
Free Jimmy (2006)
Writer-director Christopher Nielsen must think that the three “D”s in “3D animation” must stand for Dreary, Disenchanting and Disgusting. The first Norwegian film to be completely animated by computer graphics, and one of their...
Bullitt (1968)
Although many people associate Bullitt with the 10-minute car chase at the heart of the film, and for cementing McQueen’s (and his Ford Mustang) iconic coolness factor, it is also cited by many as the film...