Making Love (1982)

Making Love (1982)

[9] Michael Ontkean (Twin Peaks, Slap Shot) and Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels) play a married couple, long time best friends whose relationship begins to fracture when Ontkean's character begins to explore his crush on a writer played by Harry Hamlin…
The Natural (1984)

The Natural (1984)

[8] Robert Redford stars as Roy Hobbs in this 1930s baseball fantasy about a middle-aged rookie who leads a down-and-out team to the top of the league with his seemingly supernatural batting skills. But when a duplicitous woman (Kim Basinger)…
The Florida Project (2017)

The Florida Project (2017)

[8] Tangerine co-writer/director Sean Baker applies his 'quasi-cinéma vérité' style to this examination of Moonee, an unsupervised six-year old child (Brooklynn Prince) running free-range in an impoverished motel community positioned immediately outside Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Along with…
Boogie Nights (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)

[9] Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's ode to the '70s porn industry brings poignant depth to its sensational subject matter. It's also an amazing showcase of top-notch acting and directing. Anderson is a rare creative talent, as skilled with actors as…
Platoon (1986)

Platoon (1986)

[8] Oliver Stone's Platoon was one of the first major motion pictures to deal with the Vietnam war. Charlie Sheen stars as an infantry volunteer who finds himself in a moral quandry, torn between two sergeants of differing philosophies. Tom…
Shane (1953)

Shane (1953)

[8] George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Gunga Din) directs this Western morality tale based on the novel by Jack Schaefer. Alan Ladd plays the title character, a drifting cowboy who wanders into a sprawling Wyoming valley in the…
Threesome (1994)

Threesome (1994)

[9] One girl. Two guys. Three possibilities... Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society), Lara Flynn Boyle (Twin Peaks), and Stephen Baldwin star in this college dramedy about three dormitory suitemates who wander into a sexual threesome of sorts and survive to…
Dead Poets Society (1989)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

[9] Robin Williams headlines this period drama from Australian auteur Peter Weir (Witness, Picnic at Hanging Rock) centered around teen boys coming of age at a late 1950s New England prep school. Williams plays Professor Keating, their inspirational English teacher,…
Minority Report (2002)

Minority Report (2002)

[8] Steven Spielberg directs Tom Cruise in this taut adaptation of Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novelette set in 2054, when cops are able to use the visions of three uniquely gifted people called 'precogs' to arrest criminals before they commit…
A View to a Kill (1985)

A View to a Kill (1985)

[8] A psychotic businessman (Christopher Walken) plans to plunge Silicon Valley into the ocean to create a worldwide microchip monopoly for himself in Roger Moore's final outing as James Bond. A View to Kill is more aggressively paced than other Bond…