In a small town in the middle of pastoral France, a mysterious stranger suddenly appears – his name is Georges (Jean Dujardin), and from his appearance, you’d be lead to believe he’s just an ordinary, middle-aged man on a trip through the country. However, he’s recently gone through quite a challenging divorce, and as a…

No one – and I mean absolutely no one – could have made a film like Bamboozled other than Spike Lee. This isn’t only due to the fact that few filmmakers have dedicated so much of their platform to continuously exploring different aspects of race relations throughout history, but also because Lee possesses a skillful…

“He looks like a normal person. If we met in a café, I’d never suspect it” The person being described here is Amadeo (José Isbert), a humble old man who is on his way to retirement after years of service to his craft. What most people don’t realize when they see him walking through the…

Tina (Carrie Snodgress) is a mild-mannered New York housewife who dotes over her husband, Jonathan (Richard Benjamin), who returns her nothing but abusive “tough love” for her minor foibles, and constantly pushes her to be the ideal woman, rather than taking into account her own individual feelings, which he clearly sees as secondary to his…

In an era where the world’s wealthiest people are given far too much power and influence over the lives of ordinary people, there are few films that embody the spirit of the rousing call to “eat the rich” than Michael Winterbottom’s Greed, a film that progresses from an outrageous comedy to one of the darkest…

Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a wealthy cartoonist who enjoys the life of a bachelor – his company is normally restricted to his personal butler, Charles (Terry-Thomas), and a number of random women who Stanley meets regularly for passionate rendezvous that rarely last longer than a single evening. He has amassed his wealth through the…

Tammy McDonald (Felicity Huffman) is a middle-aged woman who is always on the verge of dying, a result of her alcoholism and drug abuse compelling her to flirt with the idea of suicide, which is normally just a cue for her to get the necessary attention from her daughter, Cathy (Anastasia Phillips), who is growing…

In the decades after the Second World War wrought unimaginable damage on the nation, the people of Japan do their best to rebuild their society. For most of them, they undergo immense travail in the hopes of recapturing the glory of their pre-war culture. However, others are not quite as dedicated, and choose to rather…

Roslyn High School in Long Island is vying to be the best high school in the country – and they seem to be well on the way to achieving that goal, mostly due to the hard work being done by Dr Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), the school’s superintendent that embodies the spirit of dedication through…

“The road begins and the journey is already over” Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Hawks and the Sparrows (Italian: Uccellacci e uccellini) is a film built from a fundamentally contradictory perspective – a comedy that is far bleaker than most films made during this time, and a neo-realist masterpiece that has frequent flights of fancy into…