Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick MacGee, Michael Bates
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Plot: Alex, a charming young sociopath who loves both violence and Beethoven, is jailed for murder and volunteers for an experimental brainwashing treatment to reform criminals in exchange for a shorter sentence.
But is it any good?
“You’re a film student and you haven’t seen A Clockwork Orange?” […]
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Plot: The Tramp falls for a blind flower girl and befriends an alcoholic millionaire, swallows a whistle and falls into a canal 50 times.
But is it any good?
1931 and Chaplin still wasn’t talking! And fair enough, as he was undeniably the comic genius of mime. Every […]
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Plot: An upwardly-mobile office drone begins hiring out his apartment to senior management for their flings in return for promises of a fast-track rise through the company. But things get complicated once his own feelings come into it.
But is it any good?
I like Billy Wilder movies, […]
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Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Plot: Five suited men named after colours are involved in a bungled diamond heist. When some meet in their warehouse HQ later, they realise one must be a rat. But which? Cue accusations and one unattached ear.
But is it any good?
I […]
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Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Plot: It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don’t know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don’t have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a […]
