Average rating: 4.18   83.6% from 14 members


Code Unknown

This is possibly my favourite film. Clever, innovative, well-acted, beautifully shot... I'm happy just thinking about it.

Amores Perros

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's first film is maybe his best. Dog fighting, a depressed ex-model and a hit man collide in this excellent, vibrant film.

Short Cuts

The master of the multi-plot, Robert Altman's classic film: an amazing cast (including Jack Lemmon, Lily Tomlin, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Tom Waits and Huey Lewis!) and an amazing film. It's got everything.
  • Short Cuts on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Andie MacDowell,  Tim Robbins,  Madeline Stowe
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a springboard, American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial, rage, and despair in the lives of several ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,386 members

M.A.S.H.

Altman again. War has never been so funny.
  • M.A.S.H. (2 discs) on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Donald Sutherland,  Elliott Gould,  Tom Skerritt
    Director: Robert Altman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Widely considered to be one of the best comedies ever made. The story focusses on surgeons during the Korean War and their madcap antics to degrade the U.S. military bureaucracy. A Best Screenplay Oscar went to Ring Lardner Jr.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,693 members

Little Children

This is so much better than you think it is.

Pulp Fiction

You must have seen this; a bloody masterpiece.
  • Pulp Fiction on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Christopher Walken,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 81% from 87,126 members

Hannah And Her Sisters

One of Woody Allen's finest.

Magnolia

Tom Cruise's only good film (and he isn't even in it much).
  • Magnolia on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Jeremy Blackman,  Tom Cruise,  Melinda Dillon
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict (Melora Walters). Her father (Philip Baker Hall), the host of the game show "What Do Kids Know
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 20,915 members

Crash

A smart film about the complicated race issues in America. I don't know if was as good as all the hype, but it's still pretty damn good.
  • Crash on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Don Cheadle,  Matt Dillon
    Director: Paul Haggis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Crash is a powerful, moving and provocative drama following the intersecting lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles. Using a sophisticated, layered structure to tell the stories of a multi-racial group of characters as their lives inter-connect through a sequence of events around a car ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 100,599 members

Angels In America

Ok, so it's not a film: it's a two part, 6 hour, TV special. So sue me. Tony Kushner (who won a Pulitzer Prize for the play this is based on) is a phenomenal talent.
  • Angels In America (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  Meryl Streep,  Emma Thompson
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In transferring Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play to the small screen, director Mike Nichols has crafted a profound, ambitious masterpiece. The film follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,352 members




Average rating for this collection: Average rating: 4.18   83.6% from 14 members

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