Daniel Joslyn

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)

Sidney Poitier has to solve a murder in a small southern town that hates him. A great social movie but kind of a blah procedural.

The first Indiana Jones movie defined its genre for more than one generation of moviegoers.

A breakthrough in special effects is used in service of a story that… what is this?

The Muppets take their act to Broadway in one of the definitive movies of my childhood.

A masterpiece of a horror movie. IN SPACE!

A road comedy that feels somehow revolutionary in its plea for empathy, while also having some big laughs.

This epic basically invented modern Scottish nationalism despite a total lack of both subtlety and interest in actual history.

Francois Truffaut’s debut about his own wayward childhood still feels fresh today.

The late, great Sean Connery stars in maybe the best of all the Bond movies.

This genesis of many, many other very silly movies was the subject of our “Emergency Election Night Watch Party” last night.