Drama

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

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

Kissing, Kissing, King is what we’ve been missing.  

Reviewed Dec 7, 2021

An anthology based on eight short stories by Stephen King in his 1993 collection of the same name. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Martian

Mars - come for the potatoes, stay for the disco.

Reviewed Nov 23, 2021

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

The Right Stuff

Star Trek: The First Generation 

Reviewed Nov 16, 2021

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges. Genres: Drama, History

Schindler’s List

Lost World

Reviewed Nov 12, 2021

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. Genres: Drama, History, War

Bird Box

I guess child abuse is one way to get them to stop callin...

Reviewed Nov 5, 2021

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller

R U Invited?

Marvel - for all time.  Always!

Reviewed Nov 2, 2021

Five friends receive invitations to an underground sex party. However, to qualify for attendance each invitee must submit revealing photos as a "screening" process." As the party draws near, issues of monogamy, weight & appearance, discrimination, drug use, and promiscuity arise. Friendships are tested and pushed to their boundaries, personalities collide, sexual histories are revealed, and relationship survival is in question. Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Arrival

Close Encounters of the Squid Kind

Reviewed Oct 29, 2021

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

A Quiet Place

At last a movie for the librarians!

Reviewed Oct 15, 2021

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound. Genres: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

American Psycho

A Nightmare on Wall Street

Reviewed Sep 28, 2021

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Haunting of Hill House

Bent Neck Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Reviewed Sep 21, 2021

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it. Genres: Drama, Mystery

Straw Dogs

Is he researching Stalingrad or the next Home Alone movie?

Reviewed Aug 24, 2021

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control. Genres: Drama, Thriller

Straw Dogs

No honey, it's just the neighbors dropping by to borrow a...

Reviewed Aug 17, 2021

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Conversation

The proof that Shirley was cheating on Laverne

Reviewed Aug 13, 2021

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gone Girl

...or Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married 3

Reviewed Aug 6, 2021

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The Green Knight

Gawain vs Groot

Reviewed Aug 3, 2021

An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Company of Heroes

Saving Private Ryan some money on special effects

Reviewed Jul 20, 2021

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect. Genres: Action, Drama, War

Yakuza: Like a Dragon

"Bat Man" and Robbin

Reviewed Jul 6, 2021

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū. Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Open Outlook Express and donate today!

Reviewed Jun 25, 2021

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Reviewed Jun 18, 2021

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Dolores Claiborne

Sometimes being a bitch is all a podcaster has to hold onto

Reviewed Jun 1, 2021

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery