Some Came Running (1958)

Some Came Running (1958)

[7] Frank Sinatra plays Dave Hirsh, a war veteran who returns to his scenic Indiana home town where family secrets and town gossip threaten to disrupt the lives of many. He arrives with a young, naïve floozie named Ginnie (Shirley MacLaine) who…
The Jackal (1997)

The Jackal (1997)

[4] Bruce Willis and Richard Gere co-star in this wobbly, underwhelming thriller about an imprisoned IRA fighter (Gere) who helps the FBI hunt down a mysterious assassin known as 'The Jackal' (Willis) before he kills a high-profile political target at the behest…
Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)

[7] In this ensemble romantic comedy, Steve Carell plays a middle-aged husband and father whose wife (Julianne Moore) breaks the news that she wants a divorce. In Pygmalion fashion, Carell then becomes the pet project of a young metrosexual (Ryan Gosling) whose…
Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

[7] When the sixth-richest man in the world dies in solitude at his palatial estate, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning behind his dying word: "Rosebud". Through a series of interviews with his business partners and estranged wives, a portrait of Charles…
David & Lisa (1962)

David & Lisa (1962)

[6] 2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea stars as David, a teenager whose parents enroll him in a boarding school for the mentally disturbed. David is irrationally afraid that if anyone touches him, he'll die. While the school's psychiatrist (Howard Da Silva)…
Easy Virtue (1928)

Easy Virtue (1928)

[4] Alfred Hitchcock's fifth silent film, Easy Virtue, was considered lost for nearly fifty years, until a few abridged 16mm copies were discovered in the 1970s. Those well-worn, compromised prints remain the best available versions of the film. But this is at…
Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960)

Never Take Candy from a Stranger (1960)

[7] After their daughter tells them about 'naked games' she played with an old man, two parents (Patrick Allen and Gwen Watford) take the old man to court. But they find themselves the unlikely target of the town's scorn for trying to…
Return of the Jedi (1983)

Return of the Jedi (1983)

[9] George Lucas wraps up his historic, original Star Wars trilogy with an entry that's widely considered inferior to the first two films -- but that's more a testimony to the unparalleled excellence of those prior films than a knock against it's…
War Horse (2011)

War Horse (2011)

[8] Steven Spielberg traverses the European battlefront of World War I through the eyes of a horse named Joey in this adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel and a stage play by Nick Stafford. We see this foal born, trained by a teenaged…
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

[6] Freddy's franchise continues with a fifth worthwhile installment directed by Stephen Hopkins (The Ghost and the Darkness, Predator 2). Freddy (Robert Englund) continues his killing spree by haunting the dreams of an unborn child. The child in question belongs to Alice…