A “big” hit about a kid trapped in adult’s body, which works almost entirely because Tom Hanks believably plays a 13-year-old boy.
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DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA (1929)
A rediscovered silent classic featuring an iconic central performance by Louise Brooks as its doomed heroine
ALIENS (1986)
A bombastic, action-packed sequel that has basically nothing in common with its tense, contained thriller of a predecessor, and yet both are great movies in their own way.
BARRY LYNDON (1975)
Stanley Kubrick’s period epic tells the life story of a 1700s rogue with spectacular visuals and a maximum of emotional detachment.
THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
The film that brought the sound revolution, cementing a place in movie history all out of proportion to how good a movie it actually is (it is not a good movie).
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991)
A unique film about the Gullah culture on the coast of South Carolina, with a beautiful visual sense and an insistence on discursive storytelling.
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)
Maybe the first great heist movie, for me it still works just as well today as it did 70 years ago.
FEHÉRLÓFIA (1981)
A completely unexpected, elemental masterpiece, it somehow feels straight out of prehistory. This may be the best animated movie most people have never heard of.
TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1931)
This curiosity of a movie featuring only native actors from Bora-Bora turned out to be F.W. Murnau’s final film.
OUR 300th MOVIE: PREDATOR (1987)
The winner of our action movie poll is the muscle-fest called “Predator,” in which Arnold Schwarzenegger fights an alien that see only in very doofy-looking heat vision.
Movie Valhalla 