Zeppelin (1971)
Michael York plays Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a half-German British officer recruited to defect to the Germans so he can spy on their new super-zeppelin program. You watch Zeppelin for the airships.
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United KingdomThe Lion in Winter (1968)
The Lion in Winter is one of the great chamber pieces in cinema, written as a stage play by James Goldman and adapted by him for the screen with all the dialogue intact. The film is two hours of family…
MaltaClash of the Titans (1981)
Clash of the Titans is Ray Harryhausen's final film and his farewell to the medium he helped invent. Judi Bowker plays Andromeda.
IcelandDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Honor Among Thieves is the rare studio fantasy film that knows what it is and commits to it without apology. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley.
British ColumbiaHighlander (1986)
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…
LondonZero Dark Thirty (2012) Review
Zero Dark Thirty is one of the best American thrillers of the past fifteen years and one of the most controversial mainstream films of the post-2001 perio. She became the first woman to win that award.
CaliforniaWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Review
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the great American films of the 1980s and one of the most substantial technical achievements in animated cinema history. Robert Zemeckis had directed Romancing the Stone in 1984 and Back to the Future…
United KingdomMonty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Review
The statement is defensible. The musicians needed tax shelters.
United KingdomThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Review
David Lean's POW masterpiece. Alec Guinness's career-defining performance as Colonel Nicholson.
FranceSaving Private Ryan (1998) Review
Steven Spielberg's WWII masterpiece. Omaha Beach opening is the best war scene ever filmed.
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1 soundtrack, the cosmic Marvel foundation. The 6.5 reflects honest evaluation of one of the more creatively committed Phase Two MCU entries and the film that introduced cosmic Marvel to mainstream audiences.
LondonDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Review
Sam Raimi brought specific horror-genre filmmaking sensibility to the production. Stephen Strange has been navigating the consequences of the multiverse opening that the Spider-Man: No Way Home spells produced.