Drama

Desperation

Can God be Love if He lets such awful things air on netwo...

Reviewed Oct 17, 2023

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Gran Turismo

Now if someone would design a video game preparing the ne...

Reviewed Aug 29, 2023

The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver. Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Seven Samurai

And no, Tom Cruise is not one of them

Reviewed Aug 25, 2023

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. Genres: Action, Drama

The Green Mile

The Shawshank Reinvention

Reviewed Aug 1, 2023

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution. Genres: Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Oppenheimer

…or How I Learned to Start Worrying And Make A Bomb

Reviewed Jul 25, 2023

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. Genres: Drama, History

The Shallows

Blue Crunch

Reviewed Jul 14, 2023

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude. Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller

The Fugitive

Presumed Guilty

Reviewed Jun 27, 2023

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name. Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

The Reef

Bobbing for Aussies

Reviewed Jun 23, 2023

A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef. Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Dear Evan Hansen

Don’t fall out of the apple tree with anyone else but me.

Reviewed Jun 2, 2023

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note. Genres: Drama

Muriel’s Wedding

Mercury In Retrograde

Reviewed May 30, 2023

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Full Metal Jacket

Too Lively Crew

Reviewed May 26, 2023

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Genres: Drama, War

Platoon

Natural Born Killers

Reviewed May 19, 2023

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Genres: Action, Drama, War

Detention

What happens when you teach Critical Wraith Theory

Reviewed May 16, 2023

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school. Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Tetris

Having a good blockhead for business

Reviewed Apr 25, 2023

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain. Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Snowpiercer

The Little Engine That Cold

Reviewed Mar 17, 2023

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. Genres: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Creed III

Killmonger vs. Kang: Rumble in Wakanda

Reviewed Mar 7, 2023

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose. Genres: Action, Drama

Warrior

The unabridged Moby Dick audiobook runs 24 hours and 49 m...

Reviewed Mar 3, 2023

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament – a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother. Genres: Action, Drama

Dracula

Stayin’ Alive 

Reviewed Feb 7, 2023

In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Subconscious Uncoupling

Reviewed Feb 3, 2023

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake. Genres: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

About Schmidt

Uneasy Rider

Reviewed Jan 27, 2023

A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. Genres: Comedy, Drama

THX 1138

The Empire Strikes Baldies

Reviewed Jan 20, 2023

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Somehow I didn’t imagine the children of the night maki...

Reviewed Jan 10, 2023

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Genres: Drama, Horror

Fahrenheit 451

The Arson Chronicles

Reviewed Jan 6, 2023

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation… Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Big Brother Is Listening.  Why not you?

Reviewed Dec 30, 2022

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller