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Parenthood

As kids we know everything, or we think we do, but as we get older and become parents, we realise we know even less. How did our parents get through it? More…

Parenthood
Amistad

Spielberg’s 1997 film is based on the true story of the mutiny aboard the slave ship, Amistad, and the subsequent courtroom drama as the American lawyers fought for the slave’s freedom and return home. More…

Amistad
Hook

Paul Bullock takes a look at Steven Spielberg’s 1991 film, Hook, and tells us why during the course of the film, Pan isn’t the only eternal child who grows up. More…

Hook
Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg’s record-breaking 90’s classic, Jurassic Park, was unlike anything movie audiences had seen before and it’s still an experience that’s breathtaking today. More…

Jurassic Park
Ali

Michael Mann’s biopic on boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, covers the time from 1964 to 1974, leading up to his fight with George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle. More…

Ali
Matewan

John Sayles’ 1987 film, starring Chris Cooper and James Earl Jones, dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners’ strike in 1920 in Matewan. More…

Matewan
¡Alambrista!

The dark, silent canyon between the cultural identity of my Mexican father and me, his American son, is the sort of problematic heritage this film helps illuminate. More…

¡Alambrista!
Dead Poets Society

Peter Weir’s heart-warming but equally devastating film about liberty through poetry still teaches us that duty and discipline can be frighteningly dangerous concepts. More…

Dead Poets Society
Annie Hall

In one of Woody Allen’s finest pieces of work, we see Alvy Singer revisiting his relationship with Annie Hall to figure out where it all fell apart for them. More…

Annie Hall
Manhattan Murder Mystery

Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, the tension mounts in Manhattan Murder Mystery and the real mystery at its heart is who will end up sleeping with who. More…

Manhattan Murder Mystery
Sophie’s Choice

Meryl Streep stars as Sophie, a mother who is faced with a terrible choice at Auschwitz; she must choose which of her two children must die in the gas chamber. More…

Sophie’s Choice
The Parallax View

The second film in Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy sees a reporter investigating an organization whose primary, but not ostensible, enterprise is political assassination. More…

The Parallax View
Memento

In Christopher Nolan’s Memento we’re introduced to a man, suffering from short term memory loss, who uses any means necessary to avenge his wife’s murder. More…

Memento
Following

Christopher Nolan’s first film didn’t have a huge budget or superstar cast, but nevertheless he was already showing us hints of what’s come with his later features. More…

Following
American Gigolo

Paul Schrader’s 1980 film sees Richard Gere playing an escort who makes a lucrative living in Los Angeles, but before we start to envy his lifestyle lets take a closer look at him. More…

American Gigolo

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