Drama

The Straight Story

The story of the Real Life Lawnmower Man

Reviewed Apr 18, 2017

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey. Genres: Drama

Lost Highway

The world's best anti-tailgating PSA.

Reviewed Apr 11, 2017

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Hotel Room

Find out if this Hotel Room is worth checking into.

Reviewed Apr 4, 2017

The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. Genres: Drama

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

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Reviewed Mar 28, 2017

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate. Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Logan

With a cameo opener by Deadpool!

Reviewed Mar 7, 2017

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces. Genres: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Twin Peaks

Time for a damn fine cup of coffee and a damn fine podcast!

Reviewed Feb 24, 2017

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.) Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune

Walk without rhythm and you won't attract James McAvoy

Reviewed Dec 13, 2016

Twelve years following the events of Dune, the Atreides family must overcome a conspiracy that threatens to destroy their legacy and undermine their House in the eyes of The Empire. Only Paul's children can prevent this catastrophe from destroying everything and saving House Atreides from this malevolent force. Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Frank Herbert’s Dune

You Can't Do Spice on Television!

Reviewed Dec 6, 2016

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom. Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Elephant Man

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Reviewed Nov 22, 2016

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Genres: Drama, History

The Fly

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Reviewed Sep 9, 2016

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber. Genres: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Stand by Me

This is big time, baby!

Reviewed Aug 30, 2016

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives. Genres: Adventure, Drama

Apt Pupil

Stephen King was a teacher...but who is the Apt Pupil?

Reviewed Aug 23, 2016

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door. Genres: Drama, Thriller

The Shawshank Redemption

Get busy listenin', or get busy dyin'.

Reviewed Aug 16, 2016

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope. Genres: Crime, Drama

The Bourne Ultimatum

Damon is a natural Bourne killer!

Reviewed Jul 12, 2016

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him. Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short Circuit 2

It's Droid and the City!

Reviewed Jul 7, 2016

Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Science Fiction

The Bourne Supremacy

Matt Damon is Bourne again!

Reviewed Jul 5, 2016

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive. Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

The Bourne Identity

A film from before Matt Damon was Bourne!

Reviewed Jun 21, 2016

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for? Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama

Cujo

Does this movie really bite?

Reviewed Apr 26, 2016

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town. Genres: Drama, Horror

American Splendor

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Reviewed Apr 19, 2016

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar. Genres: Comedy, Drama

The Hateful Eight

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Reviewed Jan 15, 2016

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Western

Django Unchained

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Reviewed Jan 8, 2016

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. Genres: Drama, Western

Inglourious Basterds

Oooh, that's a podcast!

Reviewed Jan 1, 2016

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Creed

Goes to show if you live long enough you become Burgess M...

Reviewed Dec 8, 2015

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed. Genres: Drama

Jackie Brown

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Reviewed Dec 4, 2015

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller