Starring: Spike Lee, John Turturro, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez, Samuel L Jackson, Martin Lawrence Director: Spike Lee One summer in Brooklyn, as the temperature rises racial tensions flare, centring on a Italian owned pizza shop in a black neighbourhood. Mookie, played by the director Spike Lee, is the main character in a large cast that… Continue reading 105 Must See Film: Do The Right Thing (1989)
Category: 105 Must See Films
105 Must Watch Films: Strange Days (1995)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott Director: Kathryn Bigelow A film about 1999, made in 1995. Everyone thought Y2K was going to be a big thing. The world was coming to an end. But neither of those things happened. I wish that that was the main problem with this film.… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: Strange Days (1995)
105 Must Watch Film: Diner (1982)
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Timothy Daly, Ellen Barkin, Paul Reiser Director: Barry Levinson Baltimore 1959: a group of friends contemplate their futures and the nature of growing up over several conversations in their favourite diner hangout, as one of their number questions whether to get married. It's painful to watch.… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Film: Diner (1982)
105 Must Watch Film: Raising Arizona (1987)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Frances McDormand Director: Joel and Ethan Coen Mad-cap caper in which an ex-con (Cage) and an officer of the law (Hunter) couple kidnap a child when they find themselves unable to conceive. But things get complicated when two escaped prisoners turn up and a leather clad bounty hunter… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Film: Raising Arizona (1987)
105 Must Watch Films: House Of Wax (1953)
Starring: Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson Director: Andre De Toth Classic horror about a wax model artist called Jarrod (Price), whose business partner burns him alive with his creations in order to collect insurance money. But Jarrod will not stay dead, and reappears to exact his revenge on those who crossed him,… Continue reading 105 Must Watch Films: House Of Wax (1953)
105 Must See Films: Lone Star (1996)
Starring: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey Director: John Sayles If you look this film up online, you'll find that most people describe it as "multi-faceted" and that it will stay with you for days after watching. A body is uncovered in the desert. The sheriff, Sam (Cooper), suspects that it's his predecessor,… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Lone Star (1996)
105 Must See Films: Moonstruck (1987)
Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Danny Aiello, Olympia Dukakis Director: Norman Jewison Unusual romantic comedy starring Cher as widowed accountant Loretta, who is looking for stability, not romance, in her new husband to be Johnny (Danny Aiello). But nothing goes according to plan, when she must personally invite her fiancee's estranged brother Ronny (Nicolas Cage) to… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Moonstruck (1987)
105 Must See Films: Coffy (1973)
Starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw Director: Jack Hill In a crazy, violent, breast-baring caper, a good hearted nurse decides to take the law into her own hands when her sister is the victim of drug dealers. But she soon discovers that the corruption goes all the way to the top... Coffy (Pam Grier) is both… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Coffy (1973)
105 Must See Films: Gravity (2013)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney Director: Alfonso Cuarón Overhyped film about astronaut Ryan Stone (Bullock) who is separated from her spaceship during a freak accident, and must use all her ingenuity to survive. The central performance by Bullock is the actress at her finest, and perhaps the accolades that the film received are highly deserved.… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Gravity (2013)
105 Must See Films: Nebraska (2013)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk Director: Alexander Payne Shot in black and white, this film follows a son indulging his slightly senile father by taking him on a road trip to collect the million dollars he stubbornly believes he won in a magazine sweepstakes. His life and relationship going nowhere, David… Continue reading 105 Must See Films: Nebraska (2013)
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