Drama

Gone with the Wind

12 Years A Karen 

Reviewed Dec 29, 2023

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Watchmen

Squid Games

Reviewed Dec 19, 2023

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, “Watchmen” embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own. Genres: Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Usual Suspects

The Greatest Flick The Devil Ever Pulled?

Reviewed Nov 10, 2023

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Secret Invasion

It’s Not Easy Being Green 

Reviewed Nov 7, 2023

Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years. Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Coyote of Wall Street

Reviewed Oct 24, 2023

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery. Genres: Crime, Drama, History

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