Some people are perfectly happy to watch movies where a bunch of women get together and complain about men and then get together or do not get together with those men. It’s not my thing.
Category Archives: American movies
DUCK SOUP (1933)
The Marx Brothers got the most freedom of their careers and used it to skewer patriotism, fascism, and war as bum deals for suckers.
GROUNDHOG DAY (1993)
A deep philosophical tract about the meaning of life, in which the main character keeps trying to commit suicide. Also a comedy where a groundhog drives a truck.
SOUNDER (1972)
The great actress Cicely Tyson received her only Oscar nomination for her role in this family drama about 1930s Black sharecroppers, and also their dog.
THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
A story where three very grizzled dudes find gold in the wilderness and it drives them all nuts. A manly man’s parable about greed.
HIGH NOON (1952)
A western parable in which Gary Cooper is very convinced he is right and everyone else is wrong. He would have fit right in on Twitter.
THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987)
There are very few perfect movies in the world. This is one of them.
KING KONG (1933)
The original monster movie continues to thrill when it comes to its giant gorilla. The rest of the movie has not aged as well.
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
A wildly popular, theoretically inspirational prison drama slash… allegory? metaphor? daydream?
PSYCHO (1960)
Alfred Hitchock’s sort of crazy little thriller basically invented the slasher genre and is still studied by film nuts sixty years later.
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