If you get the feeling that A Simple Plan could’ve been directed by the Coen brothers, you aren’t far off. This marvelous film is connected to Fargo and the Coen brothers in general. The moral

The Father is the debut film for Florian Zeller, Parisian director and playwright (this is based on his own play). He wrote the film with Anthony Hopkins in mind. Hopkins plays a character named Anthony-

The Long Gray Line is pleasant but mostly routine, minor, John Ford. It is actually the first full film he made just before The Searchers in 1956 (the weird designation here is because he was

Whoever picked the title, More American Graffiti, should have been sentenced to a few months in prison. I don’t often get so worked up over a title, but this is both lazy and misleading. It

Lucas pivots from the Kubrickian artistic asceticism of his debut THX 1138 for an all-time nostalgic, hang-out film with his second effort Lucas is always the gambler- here, he bets on a slew of unnamed

27-year-old prodigy George Lucas debuted with THX 1138 in 1971- a remarkable achievement of sight and sound It is a bleak film, Orwellian—Empire Strikes Back is also gloomy but this is as cold (sort of

The Nest is the long-awaited sophomore effort from Sean Durkin. Durkin was last seen directing Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011. The story here revolves around Carrie Coon’s Allison and Jude Law’s Rory O’Hara and

Genre definitions are always difficult but whether you consider John Sturges’ The Great Escape an action film, a war film, a prison film, or all of the above- it is a fabulous example of big

An admirably aspiring project for Disney in the early 1950’s. This adaptation of Lewis Carroll allowed for the animators to fill the void left in cinema: to and draw creative the unfilmable- imagine this film

MGM was smart enough to riff on the name of The Marx Brothers most successful box office efforts: A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937) for their 1939 effort—but