Drama

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

Brave New World (2020)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised… It Will Be Stream...

Reviewed Dec 23, 2022

In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution. Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, TV Series

Metropolis

We Built This City On Rock And Ro-oooll (too bad it’s a...

Reviewed Dec 16, 2022

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction

Midsommar

Dancing Queen

Reviewed Dec 2, 2022

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities. Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Collateral Damage

He’ll be back…. in inferior Terminator sequels and st...

Reviewed Nov 8, 2022

Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini. Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Short Cuts

C*R*A*S*H

Reviewed Nov 4, 2022

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake. Genres: Comedy, Drama

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

Blood, Actually

Reviewed Jul 29, 2022

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

 Some Like It Cold

Reviewed Jul 8, 2022

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Must Love Dogs

Reviewed Jul 1, 2022

Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Brown Arrow

Twilight

Scent of a Woman

Reviewed Jun 24, 2022

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life. Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Love, Simon

Am I Blue?  

Reviewed Jun 10, 2022

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Top Gun: Maverick

Spoiler Alert: Mav did not wind up flying a cargo plane f...

Reviewed Jun 3, 2022

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen. Genres: Action, Drama

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Wait Til They Get A Load Of Me!

Reviewed May 20, 2022

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward. Genres: Drama

Under the Skin

 Space Oddity.

Reviewed May 6, 2022

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Hawkeye

No Rest Ye Merry Gentleman

Reviewed May 3, 2022

Former Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a superhero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail far more than the festive spirit. Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

 Reality bites… but not as hard as sharks

Reviewed Apr 29, 2022

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Parasite

This is so metaphorical

Reviewed Mar 27, 2022

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Ace Attorney

How To Get Away With Murder… and get Jammin’ Ninja Su...

Reviewed Mar 15, 2022

Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix's greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya, a spirit medium whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Love Exposure

The Miracle has arrived!

Reviewed Feb 4, 2022

The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Brown Arrow

Cats

Memories… all alone at the movies…

Reviewed Dec 24, 2021

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy